This was quite a week. Lot's of work and, on top, I had to migrate this website to a new server (the old one was up since 1998). But if I think it was a tough week - what about Jammie Thomas-Rasset? She was sentenced today to pay 1.9 Million Dollars for the sharing of 24 songs. Well - bad luck. People are simply bored, ignorant or simply to lazy to move their asses off their recliners to stand up and fight for what they think ought to be right. So - they just ignore the law (it's more convenient) and some, in this case our gal, Jammie, gets to pay the ticket.

The German legislature passed a law that allows the Federal Police to simply block access to websites containing "indecent" material. No judge will have to be bothered and there is no public oversight worth mentioning. For the moment, "indecent" is limited to child pornography. But my German compatriots are flexible with such terms and politicians have already suggested to include "killer games", "online gambling" and, yes, "peer2peer networks" into the list of "indecencies" that deserve to be shielded from public access. After all that knowledge transfer to China, it seems, that China has transferred some of their knowledge back to Germany.

What else went wrong this week? My "Decipiatur" service is a web-anonymyzer that is used (most of the time) from China. It is also used to access, well, guess - right. Porn. This week however, it has been used extensively to access political information. Since I don't run logs on this server (for obvious reasons) I am unable to say where those people came from. However - since a lot of those request pointed to information in "Farsi" I think it's fair to say, that at least few of them are accessing "Decipiatur" to communicate from or to Iran. You go guys. Use my server to post all you want. At least you are doing something.

And - you poor Germans out there: If you want to see the "web"-world un-bothered, un-filtered and without blocked access: You are welcome to use my "Decipiatur" service as well. It wouldn't be the first time that America keeps the candle in the window for all the .... huddled masses yearning to breathe free.