And what are we going to do when it happens in Chile?

In Spain: “..The Ministry of Culture, favoring the private interests of the cultural industry’s lobbies, has forced an agreement between the collecting societies and some ADSL operators, Redtel (Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange and Ono), to prevent the free exchange of information and democratic access to culture, currently within reach of every user of the net. "

And when that happens in Chile, are you going to let your ISP filter your P2P traffic so it can tell the record labels, or worse, the SCD (Chile’s music rights society), whether you’re downloading pirated music or movies? What are we going to do when a conservative politician decides to filter adult content, or content that criticizes some people’s religious beliefs? Or when they tell us that to have a blog we have to go through editorial control by duly accredited professional journalists?

The record industry is achieving what not even George Orwell could imagine: total surveillance of our communications. But there are plenty more waiting in line, and the State is one of them, perhaps the one most interested in knowing what its citizens do and think. The totalitarian dream, achieved by technology in the service of the entertainment industry. Who would have imagined it! Stalin was an amateur.

Will we only start complaining when the next government, whichever one it is, pays the artists back for their support in the election campaign by pushing through a made-to-order law to protect their rights, just as Sarkozy did to protect his wife’s recording career?