Why is protecting that artists' works more important than the protection of free speech? Because that's essentially what this law, and its implementation by Sky, very obviously shows.

And that's enough justification to allow shit like this to happen? Protecting your stuff is worth making others miserable or even lose business? A law that would make such a behaviour possible in the real world (like the aforementioned shutting down a mall because a head shop somehow got inside) would instantly be repealed and repaired to ensure that nobody else gets harmed.

But everything's different on the internet. Fuck, there really is no sense and logic in laws concerning sex, drugs and copyright. All of them seem to be governed by panic and knee-jerk reactions.

But this is "on the internet". Everything is different "on the internet". Sense and logic don't apply to laws "on the internet". And human or citizen's rights twice so.

They can demand all they want, I can only hand over what I have. I can't give you what doesn't exist. Which, of course, doesn't guarantee that it will end well for me. Just look at Saddam and him being asked to hand over his nonexistent WMDs.

But it still increases my chances.

In this case I should consider myself lucky that my body language is FUBAR...

Hey, it's about damn time that condition has some up sides, too.

Truecrypt? I don't have truecrypt installed. I tried it a while ago, after all, I'm in security research, I think I still got a version on a stick somewhere, but don't ask me just where in my mess that stick is ... but you have a warrant, and you're the expert. Good luck.

At least none that can be seen. You cannot demand keys for something you don't know of. If there's a container with a "please enter pass phrase" lock on top of it, it begs for a key.

Unused space on your hard drive that looks like it contains old data from before you last partitioned, though...

Erich Mielke (former head of the Stasi) said in an interview not too long before his death that, if they had at least some of the tools they have "today (note: Mielke died in 2000), the GDR would still exist.

Well, Erich, look at the bright side: Your country failed. Yet at least your system of total surveillance and fear survived even you, and is taken to heights that you could not even have dreamed off.

It can well be a government organization, considering that the government is essentially run by the private sector.

Money makes everything legal. Provided you pay the right people.

they stole his head.

OK, ok, lame joke. But at least I'm still ahead. Even my my own one.

Only as long as we still have something to lose. You have to be careful not to take that away, or else it's game over for you.

You cannot win a war against someone who doesn't mind losing it because he CANNOT lose anything.

Until someone snaps and takes the law into his own hands. That's the inherent dangers of an unjust justice system: People losing faith in it.

That is actually very dangerous to the stability of a state.

If we're talking about the number of kicks to the nuts he should receive, we can start talking.

So the general protection fault has to pay almost what, 5% of what he made by selling out his country?