One of the most common questions I get, and quite likely the most irrelevant, is “how shall the artists get paid?” in a scenario…
Read MoreAuthor: Rick Falkvinge
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.
Tear Down This Firewall!
The copyright industry has discovered it. Now Arab League dictatorships are discovering it. Tunisia has fallen. Egypt is burning. Yemen, Albania, Sudan, Algeria, and…
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Eurogibberish
I spent the week in the European Parliament, attending a panel arranged by EUObserver and generally getting to know the surface of the formal…
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Not Rocket Science: Same Laws Online, Offline
What the Pirate Party demands isn’t rocket science. We are demanding an end to the Wild West treatment of the Internet. We are demanding…
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Copyright is a Limitation of Property Rights
Copyright is not a property right. It is a limitation of property rights. Copyright is a government-sanctioned private monopoly that limits what people may…
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Attacks on Information Freedom via its Transport
History repeats in cycles. Hax reminds us of an episode told by Nils Funcke of the Swedish Constitutional Committee, from a time when politicians…
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The Ongoing Erosion of Ownership
Entertainment is being used as justification to erode ownership, or even cancel it outright. There is a very disturbing trend where you don’t own…
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Column: Do you prefer copyright or the right to talk in private?
My first column on TorrentFreak outlines the basic conflict between the copyright monopoly and basic civil liberties.
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Tri strane u autorskim pravima
Kada govorimo o autorskim pravima, ne možemo samo govoriti o jačanju ili slabljenju copyright-a, već moramo i precizirati za koga. Postoje tri strane koje…
Read MoreThere Are Three Parties To Copyright
When discussing copyright, things are not as simple as strengthening or weakening copyright, unless you also specify for whom. There are three parties involved…
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