These quotes from executive politicians would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. Amidst economic hardship, the Cabinet in Ireland is seeking to…
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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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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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The Eight Spokes of Information Policy?
For a long time, I’ve been trying to summarize what it is that makes us pirates, a set of basic political principles from where…
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Inevitable Frag of Domain Name System?
With the recent mass confiscations of domain names in the Land of the free United States, it has become obvoius that politicians have discovered…
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Should Pirate Parties Include The Coming Swarm Economy As Policy?
The job market is never going back to lifetime employments. Industry-critical work such as free software or Wikipedia is not counted as value at…
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