^This might be a good place to start. Don’t boycott.. Download & Share. Loudly. Proudly. Unashamedly. Go on IP litigation apologists… tell me how I’m a bastard for not supporting the creator and etc. and watch me Not. Give. One. Shit. Your guilt trip is useless on me because ‘supporting the artist’ also means ‘supporting retarded litigation’.

No big media company is getting any of my money until this fucking joke ends. Moneyed interests are driving this perversion of human rights through corrupt government representatives… This simply means we have no chance of winning this fight using the same corrupted system – which is why taking the very profits the media companies use to litigate this crap is the best course of action.

If only our refugee policy could be a little more humanitarian and less “dem imgants gonna taek mah job!” (being said by some scumbag redneck who has been on welfare for the last 10 years). Pity our politicians are putting Assange through the wringer though.

NVLDR;
Everywhere sucks in its own special way.

However, they were founded and maintained by a tight-knit elite class of university-educated professional bureaucrats with ties to the old royally appointed administrators, and so assumes a very high degree of transparency, social control and professionalism (in other words- near-incorruptability) in its officials. Once that goes out the window, as in this case, we have a serious problem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jul/08/clive-stafford-smith-jury-system-insanity 
(As is often observed, a prophet is without honour in his own country.  One day we will recognise him as being a genuine visionary – but it won’t be for a long time.)

And NathanHornby, do you really want the politics of the Netherlands? All soured by an anti-immigration populist pissing all over everything and everybody, dominating the political discussion, while ruling right-wing parties prey on fear and undermine everything the country had build up over the past 60 years?

Dutch politics is quite okay 11 years ago, but has gone rapidly downhill since then. (Still better than US or UK, though.)

Gee, you think?

With increasing blatancy, all that really matters is how much cash you and your pals have to bash (with).

Sunde is the co-founder of Flattr, a company whose sole mission is seeing to it that the money fans spend on art goes directly to artists

Well, there you go. The guy’s an upstart; he got what was coming to him.

Why, the temerity.