It’s also incredible disingenuous for Finnish welfare statists to declare themselves opposed to all copyrights and patents, as the main export industry of Finland’s welfare state consists of high-tech products that are completely dependent on the preservation of patent rights.

If it’s okay to rip off media products, it’s also okay for the Chinese to build counterfeit Nokia cellphones. And it won’t be long when that will take place.

I just got mail from my university’s computer centre telling me to remove the movie American Pie 3 from my computer because it violated copyright law. Apparently NBC Universal had tracked my BF’s download and told the university to shut down our connection and reopen it only if we remove the movie from the computer and promise never to do anything like that again.

Since the connection is in my name, I’m the one held responsible. But my BF is the one who’s hot for the downloads. I think he and I need to have a little talk. American Pie 3 for crying out loud!

I haven spoken and emailed with Jukka Liedes, the director at ministry of education in Finland and the man who lead the outline of the law, and every time I ask about these things I seem to get too much different answers. It seems that ministry of education has been under more pressure they could handle, and as also mr. Kemppinen has said, this law has been too difficult for them both on abstract level and technology wise.

Officers at ministry of education have used very weird analogies to describe what’s that “effective copy protection” in the law. I assume it means they don’t understand at all about technology or digital music, so they have to use analogies of pigs on the field or free milk from a cow. And I have tried to ask what I can or cannot do with my CDs, but you just can’t get direct answers.

Oh and by the way Phil, think about joining the campaign even though it’s in Finnish and the site still seems to be a bit under construction (something in English here).