Hizbolla v Israel...

Well... its not really Hizbolla versus Israel... Its Israel versus Iran really...

Hizbolla wont do anything without Irans support/orders...

Anyway... I only want to say that this quarrel they have has to be settled... I urge everyone NOT to get involved...
Allow them to slug it out... Otherwise we will only se a re-run a few years later...

This has to be settled once and for all... regardless of who winns...

Its either that or endless small fights for years and years to come...

Let em fight it out... There really isnt any other way to settle it...

/H

The Pirate Bay...

I guess most have noticed the takedown of piratebay... (and its resurection this weekend) hehehe

Anyway, I just wanted to write my own view on this...

Everyone say its a war between filesharers and the rich and powerfull hollywood...

I have a different view... Its not really a war... its a continues change in the way we trade with eachothers...

We all know that the market forces always looks for the cheapest way to make buisiness... The internet has fundamentaly changed the way we do buisiness today...

So what do people do when they find a cheaper product and that is easy to get? They get it cheaper... end of story...

How have the market in the past reacted to this? Well.. they use different methods... usually they start with using kartelles, laws, monopoly etc etc... once enough of the buyers is feed up with that they move to another market... wich is not controlled like that... Like they ALWAYS have done in the past...

This in turn finaly ends the monopoly, law or kartelles since it cant support itself without customers... they have to adapt to a new reality...

Today Internet has totaly changed our way of trading... this is just the begining too... its still lots of changes to come...

Its natural that people fight eachother over this... this new world is strange and dangerous to the old established companies that dosnt know how to deal with it...

So they send the police... will they win?

No...they cant win... its just the last desperate twitch of an old dinosaur that is dying...

Internet has come to stay... and so have the filesharing communities...

Ofcourse we all need something to live of... We cant eat air... so what to do?

Well, think about it... what have they done in the past?

Prices goes down... if its to expensive and people dont buy it... lower the price... You still get something and the buyers are happy... On the internet possibilities are endless... The lower the price the more customers you get...

People are willing to pay for what they want... just not whatever price YOU want em too... Lower price, make it more availble (no DRM) and treat your customers with respect and you will win the world...

Its really that simple... its always been that simple... it just takes people a while to figure it out...

The Pirate Bay is already up and running... So take my advice... Listen to the silent masses that use The Pirate Bay... lower price... make it more availble (no DRM) and make money... :)

Just look at www.allomp3.com they sell songs at prices people are willing to pay.. and they are doing GREAT... Legaly? Not entirely I guess... but they provide a service that people can afford and respect... They understand the market... and thus they are making lots of money...

Understand the market forces and you will win...

/Helshad

Taxes on filesharing or Hamashi?

Well, there is a debate going on in europe about how to deal with filesharing and all those aspects. One thought that is gaining the upper hand in that debate is taxes on filesharing.

There are lots of aspects on this and I will not go into them but rather conclude that my own point of view is that those taxes, although I hate taxes, are actually good taxes this time around.

Simply because it will end a long and very dangerous war on the internet.

If we pay taxes to use internet and thus distribute those taxes among the rightholders of movies, music and books and other things we could in return get rights to copy without cracking or hacking any movie or game as we see fit. We still would have to buy the original if we want the fancy covers and stuff like that.

And we dont have to worry about being sued everytime we show up on the net.

The only other way to walk is to ban copying of any kind and excalate the war to new levels. And honestly, I dont like the future we are looking at then.

What will happen then is that the internet will be divided into "darknets" and "freenets" and other systems that hide your identity like Hamashi.

Personaly I have already started to use those system just to avoid getting sued just because I make a mistake. Or being accused by someone just because they dont like me.

I dont like that at all. I see everyday examples of people getting sued for filesharing or copyrights violations. Its getting out of hand and its going faster and faster.

The future looks grim if you ask me. I really hope they settle with the taxes and accept that people in their nature are inquisitive and like to copy.

I have joined the idea that is for taxes on internet and in return get back our freedom to copy as we see fit.

Lets end the war.

Ofcourse I realize there is lots of problems with "taxes" system but its still a LOT better than the other options... trust me on this.

/Helshad

Muhammed and pictures...

Well, I guess this is the topic of the day... Mohammed... Picture or no picture... :)

In my case there will be pictures... why? Becuase when other people try to tell me that images are offending I know they are lying... They are just afraid of the truth...

So today I am gona publish the images that the danish paper got so much trouble for doing...

I dont "hate" muslims... I dont even dislike them... I just dont like their attitude against our "rights" to express ourselfs anyway we feel like... If I wanna do a fun picture of mohammed or whoever it might be I wont tolerate to be threatened about it... If they do I fight back with any means I can... In this case I think its enough to just publish the pictures to give them a taste of what an angry western philosophy can do... :)

To anyone listening... "Enjoy!!" :)

Muhammed walking with a donkey

Muhammed with gloria

Muhammed flag

Muhammed with 2 chicks

Muhammed running out of virgins

Muhammed in school

Muhammed being painted

Muhammed in lineup

Dont get this one really

Muhammed reading a play

Muhammed with bombturban (I kinda liked this one) hehehe

Muhammed in a picture

Boxed in

I think noone have missed the fact that the big entertainment industries is working hard in protecting their intressts in the world. Waging wars on consumers by introducing copyprotection on games, movies and now also tv-shows. Sueing them in court. Scaring em in the news. etc. etc.

The movie companies are actually trying to get a new law passed that will force tv manufacturers to include a chip that will make it impossible to copy a show from your tv to internet.

Well, things are getting worse... comsumers are forced into a black box where they are fed the useless garbage the companies comes up with... at an alarming rate I might add.

Now Intel is working on a new CPU that will be controlable from a central server dictating what you can put on your computer... And it dosnt stop there... Even mobile phone companies are locking their cellphones to certain systems for music and movies... if you havnt bought it from their sites you aint playing it on their mobiles ...

Next generation of windows will also join this madness... Microsoft is preparing a DRM (Ditigal Rights Manegement) system on their new operating system that will control what you listen to and watch on your computer... like if the Intel stuff isnt bad enough...

And where does it all come from?? Well.. take a guess... hehehe

USA ofcourse... the land of freedom... yea right...

The more I read about new inovations to control the users around the world the more I get angry... the more I do everything I can to avoid their products... In the end I will be forced to NOT use computers and watch tv... because there wont be a TV, computer or phone that is free to use as I see fit...

Yea, I think its right that the producers get paid for their work... but not like this... Its the wrong way of doing business...

Internet has proven over and over again that people like the freedom of exchanging ideas, culture and whatever they can think of...

I belive most of the people working at those big corporations are downloading stuff like the rest of us... so why the hell do they work against themselfs??

I see this going 2 ways...

1. We get boxed into a black dark place where we dont control anything anymore

2. We get angry and start a revolution

History has shown that people can only take so much before a reaction is coming... That reaction has already started... Its still just brewing but its getting hotter for each month that passes on...

Either the revolution will come in form of elections where the big parties are voted out and replaced by new once that changes back the laws to something realistic or the frustration will spill over to violence...

We need a change... because the current course regading our cultural freedom is going straight into oblivion... My daughter will be forced to watch and listen to mainstream gibberish because there wont be any other options left...

My suggestion is simply to stop buying anything from companies that enforce a strict "listen only to us" policy...

Lets smash that box they are trying to build... and lets do it now...

It is actually rather liberating not to buy anything (except for food and items you need to live)...

Try it ... Ive done it for quite some time now...

If my computer dies on me (its old) I wont buy a new Intel thats for sure... and I will not install another MS product on it... Not even the warez versions...

I will go for anything that is free... linux or whatever... even if it will take me 5 month to learn how to use it... hehehe


Well.. I guess I got a bit offtopic ... but now I will end for today...

Have a nice life people... and remember... dont let em box you in...

/Helshad

A new beginning

Well, I guess I can give this thingy a go. Atleast in the morning when I have nothing to do anyway. ;)

So, what am I intressted in ?

Nothing much really... world domination... total control of the universe... simple stuff like that... ;)

While waiting for that to happend I dive deep into the world of movies, games and other deviant and evil things in the world... :)

Not that I actually belive in good and evil ... I belive in a force... but if that force is god, allah, buddah or whatever dont really matter to me... as long as it dosnt expect me to be in a certain way... I am who I am and I am happy with it...

If someone else dosnt like that they can go sodomice themselfs brutaly with a fryingpan... ;)

Naa.. lately my interests have been much into the copyright world... I usualy dont care what happens around me as long as it dosnt affect me directly... but nowdays I am getting sick to see how the world is abusing the word copyright...

I have no intention of being a new pirazine or copyriot blog... I am just gona write what I think about copyrights and what companies/states around the world does... and give a few links to places where I get inspired... hehehe

So whats this all about?

I have no idea really... just wanted to test this blogging thingy... but I guess I will use my hompage a lot more.. hehehe

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