DVD-kid retrial

Appa­rantly, the stu­pid­ity never stops. Accord­ing to Aften­posten (link via Slash­Dot), Jon’s legal vic­tory didn’t last long, as Økokrim has decided to appeal. While not a very big sur­prise, it adds to the amount of stu­pid­ity sur­round­ing the busi­ness of major record and movie com­pa­nies, the lat­est being Kim How­ells, the UKÂ’s Cul­ture Min­is­ter, con­demn­ing Rob­bie William’s remark, that “music piracy’s great”. Mr How­ells added that Williams’ com­ments were help­ing “do the work for inter­na­tional gangs involved in drugs and pros­ti­tu­tion who find music piracy an excel­lent way of laun­der­ing prof­its”. Go again … ?!