Comments on: SPAIN

By: naringan

naringan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:47:34 +0000

ur a lose Shuko ive been to Madrid many times and i love it. ppl is not the way ur saying, im from Germany and ppl r so nice. i think ur just a loser

By: Shuko

Shuko — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:17:07 +0000

Madrid, Madrid, Madrid. I hate it more everyday.
So parochial. So rehashed it stinks.

It’s a nice town, though, you just have to forget about 90% of the humans there.

By: jeronimo

jeronimo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:41:21 +0000

Vaya putada, the engagement rings… though breaking into empty houses during a vacation has always been a problem here, in the past 5 years average suburban spaniards have been introduced to forms of insecurity they were completely ignorant of (the type of treatment Moreno got) fear and paranoia follow close behind, everybody has heard the stories of violent masked men entering the houses of the very rich, the moderately rich, even the merely suburban, the wave of opportunistic stickers has followed closely.

As for the other thieves…. what really pisses me off about the SGAE is that the money that they gather is distributed by percentage according to record sales. If you sold 10% of CDs you will get 10% of all the tax money from recordable media, hard drives, etc. In other words, the artists I listen to and (yes) download from soulseek, will never see a cent of the money SGAE got from me. Instead it will go to support people like Alejandro Sanz….

I can easily imagine a future where phone companies act as gate keepers/chargers of the content that arrives to your house. They’ll always own the cables, they can control/toll for what goes through them. How they’ve managed to stay out of the accusations so far, without the intellectual property sleuths getting on their case, is a testament to their real size and power. Telecommunication companies are bigger than the entertainment industry, bigger than the computer industry, bigger than Microsoft and Google. They own the cables and the antennas, they own the platform. No one dares pick on those guys.

By: jc

jc — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:31:51 +0000

thanks for the info (& hello!). Germany’s situation seems quite similar to Spain — this is all news to me!! the DVD-copy protection is one of people’s biggest specific complaints here — they say either copy-protection should be taken off DVDs, or the canon digital should be removed from DVD media. somehow I trust GEMA more the SGAE, not sure why… SGAE are ruthless and mercenary in Spain, even trying to charge private weddings and places like that for playing music.

By: geroyche

geroyche — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:48:32 +0000

germany already has fees in place on devices that can be used to copy materials. including hard disks, blank discs, harddrive recorders, fax and xerox machines.
i think a printer company just won one lawsuit in an ongoing battle and does not have to pay fees for every printer sold to the society protecting writers’ copyrights for the time being.

here too the next installment of the copyright law comes into effect in january 1, but i believe said fine has been in place already.
the new law btw still generally acknowledges the right for a private copy (in germany you are allowed to make private copies of copywritten material but only up to 5 and only for close relatives), but only if it is made from a legal source and if no “effective” technical protection has to be overcome in order to produce such a copy.
so the vote is still out if germany practically abandons the right for private copies, since any modern cd/dvd has a copy protection mechanism, or if it does not. because what copy protection is “effective”? especially if you obviously could overcome it to produce a copy
my old cd-drive is not all impressed by any so called “copy protection”, and linux is not by certain ones aimed at windows users. etc. pp.
but i got caried away…