Reversed "pay per click"

When it comes to retarded suggestions on how to regulate the Internet in order to maximize the profit of the media industry nothing surprises me anymore. Not even the insane suggestion from the media industry in Germany who want to get paid from anyone linking to (meaning generating traffic to) their websites in "commercial use". A sort of reversed "pay per click" policy, where the websites generating traffic to the media websites will have to pay for the traffic they generate. Just like if the newspapers had to pay the advertisers money for every person who bought a product from these advertisers after reading the ad in the newspaper. Because, clearly:

"Intenet kan inte längre vara en upphovsrättsfri zon"

Yeah, right.

This ludacris suggestion is apparently backed up by severily technologically impaired German politicians.

Ze Germans on vacation

You'd think this was a joke, but the German branch of travel agent Thomas Cook is actually offering advance booking of poolside sunbeds at nine hotels in Turkey, Egypt and the Canary Islands for a fee. This way the Germans won't have to get up a 5 am to reserve all sunbeds using their beach towels, and they can still annoy the heck out of the rest of us.

At least I know where not to go for my next vacation!