Pirates ahoy!!!

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=2262501

The text is Finnish, but the content is pretty simple. A guy had to pay in compensations 375 000€ and got a commuted prison sentence for hosting a service that provided illegal downloads. Fuck that shit. Internet pirateism maybe illegal but the penalty here way way out of proportion. As a comparison the entire Finnish media pays 6,5 million euros in fees to play music. The penalty is about 6% of that amount, for a guy who had 3000 members on his site. I would like to see the maths behind this. Another interesting comparison is in what sort of compensations are awarded for other crimes, for example the average compensation for a sexual assault on a child is around 4000€. For Fucks Sake!!! Seriously which is more serious, hosting a site with illegal downloads or raping a child. Nice to see how fucked up the sense of justice has gone in Finland.

Fuck the music industry and its witch hunt. I say lets everyone go to the Pirate Bay and download some music, to show these motherfuckers that we aren't afraid of them.

I would dearly love to buy music online but every single time I have tried to use an online service, it has been an abysmal failure. The music industry in Finland tries to cling to old fashioned distribution channels like record shops. From now on I will stick to Youtube, its convinient, easy to use and most of all free.