Obviously a new Rammstein song called “Liebe ist für alle da” and a few promo pics have been leaked on the internet. It didn’t take a long time for fan forums, blogs and even news sites to report or discuss the new song.

But what did the management of Rammstein do? Of course they take action against all sites which host or present the song, but they also try to close down the discussion about the song on various fan forums and other sites by issuing out cease-and-desist orders. This led to the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine to put an article reporting about this leak offline. This is something which cannot be tolerated and is a serious violation of the freedom of press and the freedom of opinion.

A quick search on youtube reveals that the leak cannot be stopped anymore, so the management should reconsider using that to their marketing advantage now.

And BTW, the management of Rammstein should really consider using an imprint on their recently registered website: www.liebeistfueralleda.de

More links reporting on this issue:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Rammstein:_Neues_Lied_geistert_durchs_Netz%2C_16_Jul_2009

http://www.tutsi.de/rammstein-liebe-ist-fuer-alle-da-abmahnungen-und-pressefreiheit/2009/07/23/tutsi-blog-aktuell/

Tomorrow the German parliament will vote on the erection of technical measures for censoring the internet. Even more than 130,000 signers of a petition against internet censorship couldn’t change the views of the bastards in the grand coalition of CDU and SPD. It a clear sign our politicians don’t know how the internet functions nor understand the modern life of modern people like me, to which the internet is not only an important part of my life, but also my means of earning money for my living. Spiegel Online dubbed this generation of people “Generation C64” in one of their latest articles (well, I started with a Commodore VC20).

It’s time to get rid of our politicians! Send them to hell!

More information on wikileaks. A detailed linklist (in German) about the censorship debate is available on netzpolitik.org.

German Internet Censorship efforts now reach a new height: the German domain www.wikileaks.de is currently locked down by the German registry DENIC… two weeks after a police raid to the house of a German Wikileaks sponsor, who owns the domain. The police raid was issued after an Australian internet censorship list was published on Wikileaks. Read more on this on Wikileaks.

Following the solidarity plea on Wikileaks, I am pointing two subdomains to www.wikileaks.org:

wikileaks.hrafnsbjarg.de and wikileaks.trollverk.com

I hope our stupid conservative government will see the light.