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Tomaž Štih20-Oct-16 5:09
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GeneralSound of the Week Pin
Sander Rossel20-Oct-16 2:18
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Nelek20-Oct-16 19:37
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Sander Rossel20-Oct-16 21:12
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I hate such organizations.
I'm on of the people who still watches DVD's/blu-rays and I always go for the English menu's only because BAF/BREIN (our GEMA) let's you sit through some anti-piracy commercial. I know I BOUGHT the DVD SO LEAVE ME FRIGGIN ALONE!!! Mad | :mad:
You can't even (legally) listen to music at work unless your boss pays for it (that includes radio, YouTube, Spotify...).
We pay a piracy fee for empty CD's and USB sticks because this anti-piracy lobby figured we'd use it for illegal copies anyway.
Companies here pay a tax on printers because, heaven forbid, you'll print something copyrighted! You must prove you don't or pay a fee.
Don't even think about a little music for the hold line on your telephone, you have to pay.
Guilty until proven innocent.
The worst part is that they're making so much more from it than the actual copyright owners.
They're a bunch of good for nothing, money craving, corrupt, inadequate, a-holes.

Anyway, that first video I posted was from the official VOLA channel.
Good thing GEMA blocked it, because you wouldn't want artists to advertise their own stuff.
And what's worse is that people link to it on forums that are visited by millions of people.
Could you imagine all the exposure these artists could get!?
Before you know it they actually make money and that would render BAF/BREIN, BUMA/STEMRA, GEMA and all these organizations obsolete!
Luckily disaster has been averted here and you can stay blissfully ignorant of the awesomeness that is VOLA Smile | :)

I'm not a big fan of these copyright wolves "protector" organizations by the way.
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly.
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need.
Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards,
Sander

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