I am one of this year’s featured speakers at TheNextWeb, and have just arrived at the conference. It is huge, as always, and packed…
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Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. He lives on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, roasts his own coffee, and as of right now (2019-2020) is taking a little break.
Column: Monopoly Lawyers Shouldn't Write Monopoly Laws
Today, I have a column on TorrentFreak elaborating a bit about why the lawyers working for the copyright monopoly shouldn’t also be the ones…
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European Court of Justice To Outlaw Internet Filtering; Esp. For Copyright Enforcement
Today, the European Court of Justice gave a preliminary opinion that will have far-reaching implications in the fight against overaggressive copyright monopoly abusers. It…
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Impressions from a Country Without Copyright
I just left Share Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was top notch — 80 speakers, 50 bands, three days, three nights. Very laid…
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Share Conference, Belgrade RS
A bunch of photos from Share Conference in Belgrade, RS. The conference impressed me with the scale and performance of it all, with professional…
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Temporary Outage
Due to temporary health problems, the next few weeks will see sparser updates to this blog than the usual one per day. The people…
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Pirate Party To Hire Across All Of Sweden
The Swedish Pirate Party has long claimed that the copyright industry’s statistics about lost revenue are made up. However, the party has discovered that…
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Czech Constitutional Court Kills Data Retention
In a verdict today, the Czech Constitutional Court killed the Czech implementation of the detested Data Retention Directive. Ubiquitous surveillance of every human being…
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Putting Humanism First Row Center?
In my post about the eight spokes of information policy, there was a lot of constructive feedback. It seems to be enough on target…
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Telcos Dead In 20 Years – And They Deserve It
I see three parallel developments that I predict will kill the phone companies as we know them. Unfortunately, this is not a minute too…
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