I don’t know whether this one has hit US shores already - or if there is any other country that knows about it. But there’s something going on in Germany.
Again, it’s about licensing. We already had our share of GEMA within the past few weeks (see Rapidshare and Jamendo). Read about it at ContentSphere, or do it over at TechDirt. GEMA, Germany’s only collections society, still is surprisingly entertaining (if you’re into cynism).
But, there’s some uprising fresh breeze, and it’s coming from Germany’s most southward located town: Sonthofen.
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