Wednesday, 27 August 2008

It's got to be free, baby!


Most businesses better get used to it - their products got to be free in the future! In the era of the internet it's simply not possible to host a business that doesn't give away it's products for free either to get attention or to have it's profit out of some other source as advertisement. Take the music industry. They're still trying to fight off the pirats on the internet who share and download all their music among each other. In Denmark TDC, the largest internet provider, has bought the rights to offer all its customers free downloads of some one million songs from their internet. Or have a look at the news papers - completely free! Ryan Air, the European flight carrier, is aiming at free plane tickets in the future too. 

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Male discrimination


Apoteket, a Swedish state-run pharmacy chain, has been sued for male discrimination. When they began to sell over-the-counter sex toys this summer barely an eyebrow was raised. Now they are filled with sexual discrimination because they don't have any erotic toys for men. Apoteket was told to have a "misguided and untrue view of sexuality whereby a woman with a dildo is seen as liberated, strong and independent, while a man with a blow-up vagina is viewed as disgusting and perverted". Apoteket's spokes person has replied that there's a general lack of erotic toy products of a similar good standard for men on the market.