Since I wrote yesterday's entry about Danes getting billed for sharing files via Kazaa I've published it over at Blogcritics. But I've added a paragraph over there, because I found an article about a newsletter, which was sent out by the web portal Jubii encouraging people to ignore the bills [update 12/12: I've added the paragraph here as well]. I'll probably write more about this as things unfold, but so far the entry at Blogcritics has the latest news.

People are getting sued for internet related things left and right in this country right now. In October several people were charged by the police for hacking into servers belonging to Valus (a micro payment company). The "hacking" consisted of clicking on a link posted in the debate forum at computerworld.dk. That case is still unresolved to my knowledge.
The trial date in the Newsbooster Case has been pushed to January 8th. Here, a Danish news portal has been sued for copyright infringements, because they "deep link" to news stories. The trial date has been pushed, because Newsbooster can no longer afford their lawyers and now have to rely on the representation of their Editor in Chief.
And last week the Danish branch of IFPI notified the national Danish Radio station that they will no longer allow digital copies to be made of their music making it impossible for Denmark's Radio to broadcast over the internet. Add to that the existing lawsuit concerning an artist's right to decided whether or not his/her song can be used in a television show, series, or movie and I think you'll agree that everything seems to be going to Hell in a hand basket.

Leave it to internet newbies to ruin all the fun. Don't they know the reason Al Gore invented the internet was so we could link to funny articles and share copyrighted music? What's next? No more downloading copyrighted porn?
Frankly, I find the whole thing embarrassing. But it'll be a lot worse, when people outside of Denmark decide to follow our example and start suing people left and right all over the world. Then we might as well go back to writing pamphlets.

And in other news Michele over at A Small Victory started compiling a list (and checking it twice) of alternative Christmas songs about the same time as I did. And she gets a lot more alternative than I did.

My recent posting about ice skating kids inspired Peter to write about Don DeLillo and the way people look at things they've seen a million times in movies, on TV, and in pictures. His entry is in Danish, so this'll be a good excuse to start learning our language.

And tonight we'll be watching Arsenal play Valencia and hoping for the best. But just remember whatever happens don't blame the ref.