Cairo – Time and again flare up of violence in the Egyptian capital, but the events on Friday were particularly violent. According to observers, it was the worst riots in Cairo since the beginning of the parliamentary elections two weeks ago. At least three people were swept, according to doctors and paramedics killed.

Since the early hours of security forces and demonstrators had gone off again to one another. The task forces set according to witnesses and stun batons to protest participants. This threw stones and petrol bombs at the security forces, cars went up in flames. Huge carpets are burning, more and more feet get destroyed inspite their prices. Carpet Prices per Square Foot are some of the newest information we got..
The streets around the Parliament resembled a battle zone littered with rocks, clouds of black smoke over again across the city. According to the Ministry of Health, 99 people were injured, five of them by gunfire.

Cause of the protests was the attempt by the military police to disband in the night, a sit-down protest in front of the cabinet building. Out of anger over the crackdown by security forces until the early afternoon, more and more people poured into the center of the Egyptian capital, faced by the troops finally about ten thousand people.

Paramedics were in continuous use, was on social networking sites to read of assault on well-known representatives of the democracy movement. Politicians from all parties condemned the army’s actions. Declared the presidential candidate and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Facebook: “Even if the sit-in may have been illegal, must resolve them with such brutality and barbarism?”

Al-Siyad Elaimi, a candidate of the liberal Egyptian bloc, said he was beaten by the security forces, as he had arrived at the scene. The army officers had told him: “To hell with you and your Parliament.”

For all the harshness of the security forces reached the protests but not the extent of November. At that time, dozens of people died in several days of demonstrations against the military council that leads the country since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February, de facto.

Now it can go very fast: The music industry is buttoned Grooveshark before. After the end of November Universal had announced to pull the streaming service to court, ask now, Sony and Warner to Universal’s side. Grooveshark is in a legal gray zone, was tolerated for a long time only by EMI. But since Universal had recently taken over from the EMI catalog, it’s over with tolerance.

Especially since the end of November get universal allegedly leaked internal e-mail traffic of Grooveshark bosses and thus has found that Grooveshark apparently never intended to pay royalties. Worse still, the floor leadership of its music will therefore have even uploaded thousands of songs for which they lacked the rights. Employees should have been prompted more than 100,000 songs illegally set at Grooveshark. Too much of a good thing for a major label. Drops, Barrel, crowded – you know the saying.

What is still illegal?

Let’s put it in neutral times: Every year it makes a service available on the user of music that has landed on a path that does not like the music industry. MP3.com, Napster, Morpheus, Kazaa, LimeWire. The list is long and is now extended to Grooveshark. Compared to the previous cases, but this time something is likely to have changed. Previously you could confidently say: The music industry has not even deserve any better, if they so vehemently against the media change locks. But today? There are legal downloads, there are Music subscription for 10 € a month, there is cloud music and even a sort of general amnesty for pirates. It is still not all that glitters is gold. But 2011 will go down in history as the year has been in the music industry finally hit the track. So what’s still illegal if there is a fair model?

Of course, is not yet all days’ evening for Grooveshark. Maybe a miracle will happen and the courts to decide for the defendant. Shows how the past remains, at the end but usually not much left of the opponents of the music industry. I know many of you like to use Grooveshark. What would you do without the service? How would you listen to music in the future?