Around lunch today, the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) sent out an alarming tweet that spread like wildfire. “Our servers are offline due to police…
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The Information Policy Case For Flat Tax And Basic Income
I’ve spent the last week experimenting with Bitcoin. Like with any new technology that fundamentally shifts perspectives, there are both zealots and luddites, there…
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With The Napster of Banking Round The Corner, Bring Out Your Popcorn
The real battle for the Internet and the tremendous changes it brings hasn’t even started yet. What we are seeing right now are some…
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Irish Job Minister: "Copyright Monopoly Is Bad For Our Businesses And Economy"
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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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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The Library of Alexandria 2.0
In ancient times, there was a library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Over the centuries, it had built a collection of all of…
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Radical Copyright Reform Only Chance For The Copyright Monopoly To Survive At All
WIPO is concerned at the lack of respect for copyright. At the same time, they dismiss the views of the Pirate Party as “extremist”….
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