Minx fought the law...

...and Minx won.

Some happy news first. Rammimages.com is back, just as fabulous and great as it was before The Attack Of The 50ft Corporate Lawyer. Minx, the webmistress extraordinaire, got permission to keep her site alive albeit without the few video screencaps which apparently were the reason to all this hassle. But as they say, there's no such evil that something good wouldn't come out of it.

1) Go us rammsteinfans! We showed support and made our opinion clear - and we were heard. Though most of the work was done by Minx, I think that our little community managed to create enough pressure to help nudge the management to the right direction. I mean, corporate lawyers admitted being wrong. Who'd have thought that possible?

2) The slightly paranoid who's website is next - atmosphere has vanished, at least for now. Had the management decided otherwise, it would have had an immense impact on running and creating fansites and not only on Rammstein fansites.

There has been another example of how to handle these kinds of tricky situations, a Harry Potter fansite mugglenet.com ran into similar difficulties with Warner Bros. but luckily someone came up with the idea of making mugglenet.com their official fansite. A great deal of fan activity happens on the internet nowadays and that puts the various managers on the edge, or at least should put them there. As fantastic medium of attracting new fans/customers as the Internet is, there's a multitude of issues to be dealt with - beginning with copyright laws and how do they apply in cyberspace/different countries.

The question is, where do the limits of control go? Can The Man just order someone to shut down their website, on the pain of financial charges, or pain? And who gets to decide what is acceptable behaviour/website content/you name it and what isn't?

But for now everything's fine on teh intarweb.

As for Real Life (tm), school started, things are busy at work and I've been nursing a massive hangover today. There were plenty of reasons to celebrate yesterday (combined finished thesis and birthday party thrown by partyorganizer extraordinaire Ms. E) and celebrate we did. The one good point of having students as customers is that if you for some unknown reason might appear to be a tad tired and not necessarily looking like a little miss sunshine they do understand and probably feel exactly the same themselves.


Today's music:
Rammstein: Benzin (a sample of the song here)
Silber: Kalt wie Eis
Clawfinger: Biggest & The Best