There has long been a discussion in Sweden about file sharing and copyright. The Pirate Bay and IPRED are heavily discussed in the media. With the emerging of the Pirate Party it is obvious that the current legislation concerning copyright is not the right direction. We need more discussion about it.

That’s why it is so sick that the RIAA carry out blackmail against file sharers, the latest being a woman fined 1,9 million dollars for downloading 24 songs. The numbers are just absurd. 80 000 dollars per song. I guess the music industry is trying to scare people from downloading with these absurd numbers, but it’s not the way go. What we need is dialogue. Internet is a new media and we have entered a new period where information exchange is a people’s right, choking this freedom does not help. Governments can come up with laws to prevent illegal file sharing but there will always be ways to go around the laws and if the governments just go further and further in implementing new laws on top of the old ones we will soon be living in a totalitarian society.

We need dialogue between the file sharers and the industry to come up with new ways of distribute the media and make it legal. Hunting down music and movie lovers like they are heavy criminals is just wrong. I don’t see anything wrong with people sharing, illegal or not, movies, music and other media. It’s part of the wonder of internet: unlimited information exchange.

You can’t illegalize file sharing without coming up with more options on how to access media legally on the internet. The idea Radiohead had to let the fans decide the price of the album was brilliant. It can also be that the media industries would profit more from this strategy in that the bigger fans would pay much more for the music than what the market price for an album is right now. I don’t mind paying for downloading, but the price has to be reasonable. I don’t see this happening though, the film and music industry seem so incredibly greedy and are only focused in making profit that they are not concered to the advantages internet has to the society as a whole.

I do hope that governments stop seeing information exchange as a bad thing and let the internet be a free forum that promotes freedom of speech.

Ursäkta men jag maste bara skriva ett inlägg om detta. Har ju vetat om Blondinbellas blogg ett tag nu (vem har inte hört talas om den?) och jag erkänner, jag har loggat in där nagra ganger bara för att skaka pa huvudet och inte kunna tro att nagon kann vara sa blast och ytlig. Jag vet ocksa att det är trendigt nu för tonaringar att ha blogg, skriva lite om sin dag, kanske ha ett “outfit-of-the-day”-inlägg, men det jag INTE visste (tills nu) var att Blondinbella (förmodligen, kanske The Hills tjejerna har nagonting med saken att göra ocksa) skapat sma monster som nu nästan bloggar ihjäl sig om sig själv, om hur snygga de är, om hur alla som snackar skit om dem bara är avundsjuka. Jag kunde inte tro att jag läste det jag läste. Jag ska inte länka till bloggen för jag vill inte att hon ska fa mer besökare. Sant beteende ska inte uppmuntras! Men för att upplysa er lite om vad som skrivs pa bloggen sa har ett citat därifran (klarar inte av att läsa mer än det, det citatet är hemskt nog):

“Dagen började bra, kände mig snygg, sexig och på bra humör. Påvägen till skolan blonkade jag åt alla killar, och kände hur blickarna fäste vid mig. I love to be blonde, beautiful & singel! =) Jag är en barbie, som får exakt vad jag vill iallfall, kändes skitbra!”

Alltsa vad har hänt med dagens ungdom?! Det är inte sa länge sen jag var 15 ar, men jag förstar inte alls hur dessa flickor (jag kallar dom flickor, de är tydligen langt ifran mogna) tänker. Jag är rädd att de fortfarande har samma attityd när de är i tjugoarsaldren, vad kommer da att hända med mänskligheten?

En till sak maste jag tillägga: Även om jag tycker att bloggaren är helt blast i huvudet, och tycker att hon borde skickas till en ö mitt pa oceanen där hon kan lära sig att det finns platser pa jorden där SMINK och KLÄDER inte spelar nagon roll, sa tycker jag inte att det är okej att kommentera pa hennes inlägg om hur ful hon är. Det hjälper verkligen ingen.

(har inga svenska a:n pa min dator, för har tyskt tangentbord.)

It’s just sad and tragic that some people will never ever grow up. A life down the drain. I am living in a world of full of lost teenagers unable to take any kind of responsibility. Old or young doesn’t matter, I am caring for fifty-year-old children.

Having a passion for chocolate, I thought it was time to share some of my favourite types of chocolate candy in the world. Now, I haven’t visited all of the countries in the world, or tasted every chocolate in the world for that matter so I can’t say this list is complete. My aim is to make this list as accurate as possible so if someone wants to send chocolate from their country, please do so! : )

I’ve listed the chocolates by country to make it more organized. We’ll start with Finland:

Tupla: This chocolate bar consists of milk chocolate with a nougat-flavoured filling, coated with bits of almond. And you always get two, perfect for sharing!

Geisha: Mmm… This is one of my favourites. Geisha is milk chocolate filled with soft and crispy hazelnut cream. Just let it melt in your mouth…

Fazer chocolate: And then of course the classic Fazer chocolate. It’s a bit darker and stronger than other types of milk chocolate. Not my favourite but if someone puts it in front of me, believe me it will get eaten.

…over to Sweden:

Daim: Crunchy butter almond bar covered in chocolate. Okay taste. The fun part is to suck the chocolate coating and then chew on the crunchy part though it gets kind of sticky.

Marabou: Definetly my favourite kind of  milk chocolate. Perfect mix of all the ingredients.

…and last but not least Germany:

Milka: Resembles the Marabou Milk Chocolate in taste, but something is missing from Milka. Still good, second place in the “milk chocolate”-category.

Kinder Country:  Chocolate candy bar with cereal inside. Very tasty, and with all the calcium they say is inside the chocolate it doesn’t feel like you are eating something unhealthy at all. This used to be my favourite until I tasted Kinder Schokobons…

Kinder Schokobons: Which brings us to my favourite: Kinder Schokobons. They are small cchocolate eggs covered in milk chocolate with crushed hazelnut filling. Like the Geisha chocolate, get the full taste out of by letting it melt in your mouth. Mmm…

I’m totally fascinated by Britney Spears and the whole hoopla around her right now. Those of you who don’t know she will have a new album out in December, she launched her new website britneyspears.com AND her new single Womanizer is number one in the charts in the US. So things are going pretty well for Britney. And everyone seem to be cheering for her, especially on ONTD!. I’m surprised because usually people write a lot of bad comments about celebrities, but no one seems to want to hate Britney. My faith in humanity has been restored! People actually CAN stop calling someone a bitch when the person is going through a hard time. (I rarely call people bitches, unless they deserve it, like Paris Hilton.)

Second thing is, her staff. I call it her staff, cause somehow I cannot see that they just naturally became friends with Britney. They are probably hired to be around her so that she doesn’t flip out again and/or take care of her sons. And not only the fans cheer for her, her staff cheers for her like nothing else! I just watched a Youtube video of her dancers congratulating her on the 10 year anniversary of …Baby One More Time. The staff twitters on Twitter and write blog entries with pictures of Britney visting the Pumpkin Patch with her sons (how interesting!) to make it as if everything is great in Britneyland. Does she not deserve to be encouraged and hear nice comments? Of course! It just feels sad somehow, looking at those pictures of her with her boys and her staff with the paparazzi in the background by the Pumpkin Patch because no matter how much you cheer for her I still know deep down Britney is still depressed.