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February 15 2012
“— UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims | TechdirtDajaz1 -- who, of course, had its own issues with bogus domain seizures -- has a story up about how the site rnbxclusive.com appears to have been seized via UK law enforcement, who put up a splash page even more ridiculous (though with fewer eagles) than the ICE splash page:
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January 26 2012
“— Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required - Boing BoingA new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network "to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country," so that Twitter can further expand globally and "enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression."
The Twitter blog post announcing this news was titled "Tweets still must flow." And yes they must, but apparently in some countries, only if they're censored?
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“ Avec la loi Hadopi, le projet de loi SOPA/PIPA et la fermeture de Megaupload, les tentatives de censure par des lobbys qui voient leurs cadenas sauter continueront sans aucun doute. Voulons-nous la culture que l’on nous impose depuis si longtemps ou la vraie, celle que l’on découvre et qui nous parle vraiment ? Si l’on veut défendre cette culture non officielle qui se bat pour survivre, il faut se battre contre cette dictature des majors qui cherche à imposer sa vision éculée d’un monde sans Internet par des actions liberticides. ”— [LePlus.Nouvelobs] Megaupload : Quand les majors tentent d'imposer leur propre vision de la culture | La Quadrature du Net
January 23 2012
“— Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers - ForbesThis makes sense. I suspect a great deal of piracy stems from either people who already spend their budget on entertainment goods and simply can’t afford more – and thus would have no additional economic benefit sans their piracy – or from people who don’t have access to those goods online without resorting to piracy.
In other words, as these pirates earn more they’re going to be more likely to spend it on the goods they now pirate, and as content creators find ways to monetize their content online more people will switch to legal streaming as opposed to downloads.
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January 21 2012
“— My thoughts on S.O.P.A. — Paulo Coelho's BlogAnd how do I feel about this? As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not.
Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. First, because all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a love story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the story of a journey. Second, because all writers want what they write to be read, whether in a newspaper, blog, pamphlet, or on a wall.
The more often we hear a song on the radio, the keener we are to buy the CD. It’s the same with literature.
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January 20 2012
“ #24 Cambie el texto del artículo de "intercambio de archivos" por "guerra contra las drogas" y ya sabrán cuál es la lógica del FBI y de la justicia en general.— Los caminos del download son inescrutables
Cientos de miles, quizás millones han muerto por la guerra de las drogas y el negocio no se detiene porque hay una abismal demanda, ¿cuál es el camino a seguir por nuestros inteligentes gobiernos? No, no es lo obvio que es combatir la demanda, no nada de eso, es combatir la oferta... es mejor liarse a tiros con narcotraficantes porque es muy peliculero, emocionante, hay adrenalina, hay malos muy malos, héroes y es algo conocido: un campo de batalla donde desalmados narcotraficantes quieren envenenar la inocente alma de los adolescentes, y para los políticos eso da votos.
En cambio, combatir la demanda, es aburrido, son campañas de concientización (buuu... bostezo!!), guiar a los jóvenes a buscar un futuro prometedor (mas bostezos) y mostrar que las familias de muchos son una falla completa (eso es una herejía total, las familias son perfectas) y mas concientización (que aburrido).
En ekl intercambio de archivos tambien es un problema de demanda: Si YO tuviese la oportunidad de descargar películas, canciones, series de TV en alta definición y calidad, a buena velocidad y sin que tengan que llenarme el PC de spyware, rootkits, DRMs y económico o con publicidad no demasiado intrusiva, la gente pasaría de largo de seriesyonkis, taringa, etc.. porque se vende por volumen. Pero lamentablemente, mientras los empresarios del entretenimiento no entiendan eso, seguiremos con la guerra de lasdrogasintercambio de archivos. ”
“— SOPA Getting a Face-Lift: How Evil Will It Be? | Threat Level | Wired.comSenate Major Leader Harry Reid’s (...) (is) a big supporter of the bill and a big recipient of donations from Hollywood, may no longer have the votes needed to overcome Wyden’s hold.
Here are some of the remaining controversial provisions in both bills that could be up for amendment:
*The bills give the Justice Department the power to seek court orders requiring search engines like Google not to render search results for infringing websites. Politco reports that removing that provision in PIPA is being discussed privately.
*The bills also allow the Justice Department to order internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T to block their users from visiting blacklisted sites. That would be unprecedented in the United States, though it’s a common tactic used in countries like Syria, Iran and China to clamp down on political dissent and adult content.
*The SOPA proposal bars the distribution of tools and services designed to get around such blacklists. The ban could arguably cover tools such as VPNs and Tor used by human rights groups, government officials and businesses to protect their communications and evade online spying and filtering.
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January 19 2012
“ The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It's all based on the fact that we're competition. We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are. And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations. ”— http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt
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“ (...) These anti-SOPA protests represent a shift in how politics are played out, and I’m not sure it’s a step forward. To begin with, the biggest actors in the SOPA/PIPA protests today are corporations, which are changing their sites and asking their users to take action. Second, the protests, which are taking place almost entirely on the web, leave out chunks of our society that aren’t connected to the web or don’t rely on those sites, making those people oblivious to the issues involved.— Web blackouts. Is this the new face of American activism? — Tech News and Analysis
(...) Considering that most of the tech companies that are in protest generate their money based on user interaction.I would say in almost all cases they will be aligned with the users perspective. Facebook, google, etc have basically become the collective bargaining group(read:union leaders) of free speech on the internet. They are essentially in the business of facilitating the trading of ideas. ”
January 18 2012
January 06 2012
“ More to the point, as the GAO observes, just because the movie and record industries lose a certain amount of money from online piracy in the United States doesn’t mean the economy as a whole suffers by that exact same amount — particularly if the money that would have been spent on those pirated movies and albums just ends up getting spent elsewhere. ”— SOPA: How much does online piracy really cost the economy? - The Washington Post
areyoubored
January 03 2012
December 23 2011
“— 2011: September - December Political Notes - Richard StallmanSOPA would prohibit secure domain name lookup via DNSSEC.
However, let's not focus on the bad byproducts of SOPA. The worst thing about it is its purpose: to stop sharing. Sharing is good, and anyone who calls it "piracy" is antisocial.
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“— How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor | Privacy Inc. - CNET NewsA broad interpretation of SOPA's anti-circumvention language would sweep even more broadly than Tor. Software such as VPNs, used by security-conscious businesses, can also "bypass" a SOPA-established blockade. So could DNS software. And even the humble "/etc/hosts" file, part of every major operating system including OS X, Linux, and Windows, can be pressed into service as a SOPA-bypasser as well.
Stewart Baker, Homeland Security's former policy chief who's now a partner at the Steptoe and Johnson law firm, suggests SOPA's anti-circumvention and anti-bypassing language would target Web browsers too.
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December 20 2011
“ Pirates and the “intellectual-property defense industry” ([Adrian] Johns’s delightful phrase) have been clashing at least once a century since the end of the Middle Ages. Sometimes cultural changes spur the fight, as in the Enlightenment era when the first modern copyright and patent systems took hold, he writes. But leaps in technology drive the conflict, too, as the histories of inexpensive movable type, the piano roll, the Victrola, the VCR, the personal computer, and the Internet prove. The faster that technology moves, the more vicious the fight. ”— Reuters Media Columnist Explains That SOPA/PIPA Are A 'Cure Worse Than The Disease' | Techdirt
December 06 2011
“ With SOPA, the entertainment industry has codified a doctrine that holds that the level of control given to copyright owners should grow in inverse proportion to the difficulty of copying in the digital age. But copyright policy is now Internet policy, because anything one does to limit copying is a shackle on the Internet and all of its uses, high and low. And because almost everything we do in the real world has an online component—a trend that will only continue until everything we do requires an online component—Internet policy will soon be, simply, policy. With this in mind, the creative industries’ advocacy for SOPA comes with a total disregard for humanitarian consequences, and it betrays a depraved indifference to everything except their fears. ”— Cory Doctorow: Copyrights vs. Human Rights
November 16 2011
November 11 2011
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