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Steal all your music in Europe!

Music downloaders in Europe, rejoice! Your privacy rights have been upheld by an EU court: record labels and film studios cannot demand that telecommunications companies hand over any personal information if you're suspected of downloading. Huzzah!

I don't want this post to seem as if it's in support for illegal downloading. While I've certainly been guilty of it in the past, I'm at a point where I'm more interested in subverting major labels without simultaneously giving the middle finger to engineers, producers, artists, and musicians. (Essentially, that's what downloading is, right?)

But I am concerned about the issues of privacy and the Draconian laws and procedures here in the U.S. I wish the Supreme Court had made this decision, but at least one group is sensible enough to recognize that personal information like that is meant to be private.

So, yeah. Go download away in Europe!

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	Seb ™★★★: 01/29/2008 12:52 PM Europe rocks!!! It's only, because we complain so much in Europe that we get stuff like this done & we scream human rights A LOT.
	commonpeople: 01/29/2008 1:04 PM WIN!
	counterculture from the underground: 01/29/2008 1:54 PM I wonder what people think of those Russian mp3 shops, where you can get songs for 15cents apiece ... where does the money go? are they legitimate businesses? is it legal to download from them in North America?
	justinhop: 01/29/2008 8:36 PM FREEEEEDOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!
	justinhop: 01/29/2008 8:37 PM buys a vhost in europe
	siljen: 01/30/2008 3:15 AM We just scream out PRIVACY RIGHTS, and HUMAN RIGHTS and we get what we want.. No messing with privacy and human rights up here
	littleladyfrom: 01/30/2008 4:23 AM ...am I the only one that still enjoys buying CDs?
	OneOfTheBoys ]: 01/30/2008 8:15 AM littleladyfrom said: ...am I the only one that still enjoys buying CDs? i buy cds to well yeah if its my favorite band cd, lol but other i download. xD go europe!
	x666xhimx: 01/30/2008 9:26 AM seb said: Europe rocks!!!It's only, because we complain so much in Europe that we get stuff like this done & we scream human rights A LOT. siljen said: We just scream out PRIVACY RIGHTS, and HUMAN RIGHTS and we get what we want.. No messing with privacy and human rights up here Yup. LOL. littleladyfrom said: ...am I the only one that still enjoys buying CDs? Nope, I prefer to buy CD's but I download some stuff too. =) geencer said: littleladyfrom said:...am I the only one that still enjoys buying CDs?i buy cds to well yeah if its my favorite band cd, lol but other i download. xD go europe! Yay! Go Europe!
	Sanyyy: 01/30/2008 10:52 AM seb said: It's only, because we complain so much in Europe that we get stuff like this done & we scream human rights A LOT. Can people come to Germany to scream that and privacy protection? Some ministers want that police can access to all our computers whenever they want and search for illegal things. Now a group of lawyers went to the federal supreme court.