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MIKE MASNICK

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Copyright Industry Demands, Gets Levies For Every XBox, Playstation Sold

Copyright Monopoly: The copyright industry has decreed in Sweden that it will now collect levies for every XBox and Playstation sold – about €10 ($12) per unit. This levy is the “blank media” levy, originally used to compensate for private music copying from vinyl records to blank…

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PRISM – The British Dimension

Loz Kaye, leader of the UK Pirate Party, gives a view from the UK about the NSA PRISM revelations: The cultural sense among ordinary people in the UK actually goes very counter to taking authoritarian steps into people’s privacy, Kaye writes, and the sense that…

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So Just Exactly What Is NSA’s Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil?

The US NSA’s PRISM program appears to be a set of specialized deep-packet inspection filters combined with pre-existing wiretapping points at high-level Internet carriers in the United States. Since the program’s revelation the day before yesterday, speculations have ranged far and wide about who does…

INFORMATION POLICY

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4 UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology

Privacy – Zacqary Adam Green

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Told You So: If You Have Been Using A Centralized Comms Service, You Were Wiretapped

Privacy

How Bitcoin Can Bring Down The United States Of America

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Guest Writers

PRISM – The British Dimension

Loz Kaye

4 UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology

Zacqary Adam Green

How To Bypass TSA / Airport Security

Travis McCrea

Terrorists Tried To Terrorize Boston. They Succeeded.

Zacqary Adam Green

Let’s Reform Copyright. With A Sledgehammer. Into Smithereens.

Zacqary Adam Green

EU President, IT Staff Don’t Understand Democracy, Maths, Truth

Andrew "K`Tetch" Norton

MPAA Chairman Former Senator Chris Dodd Joins Pirate Party, Announces 2016 Presidential Bid

Zacqary Adam Green

Artists: We’re Not Salespeople, We’re Street Performers

Zacqary Adam Green

I’m Sorry I Could Only Afford To Pirate Your Album

Zacqary Adam Green

Let’s Play Taboo When Discussing Politics

Zacqary Adam Green

Cameron’s Speech Opens A Window Of Opportunity To Reform The EU

Christian Engström

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EU President, IT Staff Don’t Understand Democracy, Maths, Truth

Activism – Andrew "K`Tetch" Norton

When Pirate Comradeship Beats Old Grudges

100k+ People Demand Pardon For Peter Sunde Of The Pirate Bay

In The UK, You Will Go To Jail Not Just For Encryption, But For Astronomical Noise, Too

German Pirate Party Scores Fourth Consecutive Election Win

UK Considers Opt-in Freedom Of Speech

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Terrorists Tried To Terrorize Boston. They Succeeded.

Civil Liberties – Zacqary Adam Green

Operation Last Resort

Good News: US Congressman Is Against DRMing 3D Printers To Stop Them From Making Guns

A Bit Of 1984: Biometrics Used In Argentina Today

The US Invaded Iraq Because It Wouldn’t Have Survived Otherwise

Fast and Furious: A Prequel

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How the Police and Politicians Can Regain the Public Trust

Corruption – Andrew "K`Tetch" Norton

Is it Time to Police the Police?

Guns Don’t Kill People, Guns Kill Productive Debate About Complex Societal Issues

Stratfor Thinks the CIA Is Incompetent, Yet They Can Lock You Up Forever?

Welcome To The Community, Partido Pirata Do Brasil

New Japanese Copyright Law Doesn’t Seem To Make Any Sense

Civil Liberties

Swedish Government: “Total Surveillance Doesn’t Harm Freedom Of Speech, Because It Is Covert”

Civil Liberties

How To Bypass TSA / Airport Security

Corrupt Banks, Corrupt Copyright Industry: Why Do They Get To Externalize Business Problems?

Death Of The Small Eurobusiness, In A Bank Screenshot

The Pirate Bay Offline: Norway’s Pirate Party Cuts Rope Following Threats

Let All Of Europe Have A Referendum On The EU

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Swarm Management

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Four.

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three.

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Two.

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter One.

Selling Your Vision With A Swarm

Activism

The Hydra Bay: The Pirate Bay Moves To Norwegian, Catalan Pirate Parties

Activism

TPB AFK: How The Pirate Bay Is Legally Shielded By The Pirate Party

Abandon Integrity, All Ye that Gain Power?

Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal

Alpha Geeks (and Pirates) Explained

The Unitary Patent And Why We Should Be Worried

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How To Install Nvidia Drivers In Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal

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With European Elections One Year Out, Pirate Representation Expected To Triple

Pirate Parties

Icelandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament

Icelandic Píratar On Final Approach To Election Victory

MPAA Chairman Former Senator Chris Dodd Joins Pirate Party, Announces 2016 Presidential Bid

Two More Pirate Parties On Cusp Of Electoral Success: Iceland, Croatia

500 Days To European Elections, Pirates Needed More By The Day

Reflections

After Cyprus, New Tolls For The Euro

Reflections

Artists: We’re Not Salespeople, We’re Street Performers

I’m Sorry I Could Only Afford To Pirate Your Album

Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They Can Just Steal Somebody Else’s Work?

Let’s Play Taboo When Discussing Politics

Of Course Kids Can Code. I Did.

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