Category Archives: amazing

Love story horror

photo credit: Jaap Kramer
This week a 14 year old boy was found murdered in the woods near Urk, the Netherlands. Within a day two boys were arrested, one of 13 and one of 15 years old in relation to this murder. Bit by bit the story is coming out in the press. It seems [...]

The Big Dutch brother is watching you

Recently the Dutch government passed regulation to start implementing a so-called km-tax. This means that instead of the old fashion road-tax and taxation on buying a new car, the taxes will be paid based on the milage you make with your car. To do this, every car will get a small system built in that [...]

Buma/Stemra back in its hole

Buma/Stemra has backed down. Last friday Buma/Stemra announced that because of all the commotion regarding it’s plans to invoice bloggers absurd amounts for embedding content on their sites, it has decided not to go ahead and sent out invoices.
Besides all the bloggers reacting to these amazing plans, even political the Netherlands got involved. Even [...]

Buma/Stemra’s scam

After some bad news on the dutch blog Geenstijl regarding the questionable antics of Buma/Stemra they have found a new way.
What does Buma/Stemra do? They collect licensing fees for music productions played in the Netherlands. These licensing fees are supposedly collected on behalf of producers, musicians and other people who own these rights.
They used [...]