Hello everyone

I was sort of checking up on my Last.fm hack that I posted several weeks ago (or months?) and realized that nobody’s actually done anything with it. The question is why? It’s such an awesome thing.

Today the Spanish Parliment decided to make P2P a civil offense, the law - get that - also applies to legitimate sharing of content even if the copyright allows you to share it via P2P.

Basically, this law makes no sense whatsoever. However, followed by their recent blank media tax, it makes perfect sense. The Spanish parliment simply fell under the pressure from the copyright holders, that frankly have no valid reasoning really against P2P as their content would be illegally redistributed anyway. This is the law that most annoyed me since ASBOs.

No, don’t ban Spanish products. What good would that do? However, I wouldn’t even mind organizing demonstrations and of course participate in them (either on the condition that they’re not violent, what would be the point of that?)

I urge you to start demonstrations yourself. We can’t just stay quiet like that.

And hopefully we’ll manage to see all forms of art, broadcast and expression liberated from copyrights in our lifetime.

Slashdot posted an article today that caught my attention, mentioning that our dear old friend, Billy-G will step down a bit from Microsoft.

I think it’s a bit of a shame. Until now we had a nice comfortable non-moving target we could hit with our Microsoft-hatered. However, now that he’ll sort of be less and less involved with Microsoft, we’re going to have to find someone else.

I was thinking about Steve Ballmer, then. He’s like the Chuck Norris of the software mafia. His devotion to the Doom of Real Music AKA DRM, could be some nice joke material we could use, I mean, everybody loves the capitalist sicko when he defends his little sandcastle.

All he needs now is just his own version of the classic game xbill, only with Steve instead of Bill, xsteve. So when’s 1.0 coming out?