The big music factories are trying to force a major Irish ISP to start punishing customers accused of sharing.
To make a deal with the copyright industry is self-delusion. If you try to "meet them half way", they come back later and demand the rest.
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The big music factories are trying to force a major Irish ISP to start punishing customers accused of sharing.
To make a deal with the copyright industry is self-delusion. If you try to "meet them half way", they come back later and demand the rest.
Russian environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko faces three years in prison for spray-painting on a fence.
Similar repression of nonviolent protest is found also in the US.
The protests in Bosnia are aimed at privatization which (as usual) was done so as to screw the non-rich, and at the corruption of the state.
I don't know the facts, but my guess is that some of the ex-Yugoslav industries should have been privatized, because they made products for a competitive market. That doesn't justify cheating the workers. Perhaps they should have been turned into worker cooperatives.