Swedish ISPs rebel against snooping directives

What’s wrong with these guys?! Back in the day, there were lots of voices shouting the gospel of Hollywood's apocalypse by VHS or music by K7 . The piracy was huge back then and the law was much more permissible if not inexistent. Nobody died! The sales were high, the business was good. What about now?! Well, the business is 10 times better, the revenues and profits are much higher. The music is worse .. :) But they are greedy. They want MUCH more money. They are not talking about bankruptcy in the movies business and the music industry. They are only talking about the money they COULD have pocketed IF there would have been no piracy. Well piracy exists and I think that if you could borrow a book from your friend, you should be able the borrow a movie. If you could copy a book BY HAND just to distribute it , just because you like it and you want your people to read it (even 500 years ago) , you should be able to SEE a movie and listen to a song and IF you like it enough and respect the author's talent , you WILL buy it. How many time did you read a book borrowed from a friend and then, having made an extraordinary impression on yourself, you buy it to have it in your own library and to be able to read it any day and you would even buy and offer it as a gift to your friends. There would be another thesis about the fact that ONLY really good art (book, music or film) deserves to be sold for 10 ~ 20$ a piece and the less POPULAR (not less worthy) should sell for less than that. But now, it's something like a lottery: they're all priced the same when launched, but there's a HUGE difference between a Denzel Washington movie and a David Hasellhoff one ... Want to know how good it is? Then play the lottery , buy them both only to realize in the end that one is 100 times more valuable than the other and the other isn't even worth the time.

It's only greed, they have huge piles of money and they want more even if it's not worth it al the time. We should be allowed to weigh and decide.

YES, if there's a guy SELLING pirated content, making money over something it's not his, he should go to jail as this is theft.

But jailing the torrent sites' administrators that don’t make any money from the multimedia content shared !?!? That's crazy . And ... NO ... the money from the ADVERTISEMENTS on the torrent sites are not a direct consequence of the torrent contents but they are the reward for the site's administrators for the public information service they do by helping us evaluate the shared content.

Complicated ethics but some things are obvious :

1)The companies are only guided by greed;
2)The business is much better and the money are hundreds of times more;
3)But they obviously want more money for less work as in our days there's much less talent and much more playback involved;

and on , and on ...

The laws that are being passed in the last years are scary : The Patriot/Idiot Act in USA ; The Big Brother Act
in the EU (all phone calls, SMS ,emails ,IMs etc. are being recorded and stored for 6 months) ... voted with unanimity without any public debate in Romania ... When will there be a limit too this crazy machine that takes us back in Orwell's "1984" ?!?! Why are they so interested in our private communications that are guaranteed by The Constitution (at least in Romania). If Sweden is unable to make the first step to put an end to this, I’m afraid that nobody will

HMV does not sell singles in store, I tried at the weekend and was told I could only buy whole albums.

Looks like HMV is encouraging piracy by forcing paying customers into either being extremely ripped off by an album with mostly "filler" songs on it. Or the customer being forced into buying a single on the black market.

Why is HMV not selling singles?

And is this why CD single sales are down, beacuse the shops don't actually sell them so you can't buy them?!?!