3 thoughts on “debate: will we be criminals?

  1. journal of tormodh

    Will we become criminals?

    Twenty years for using an IPod? Police going weapons-free because someone put his/her Britney collection on one cd-rom for playing on a mp3 enabled stereo?

    This is just fiction and stupidity, but then – the new intellectual property laws in our fair…

  2. Martin GL

    Didn’t that piece of law lose support in Stortinget? I thought the lawmakers understood how profoundly unpopular it was.

  3. Jill

    Yes, they did, though I don’t think the battle’s over. Will be interesting to see how things develop.

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