Last week, US Congressman Steve Israel made some unsettling comments about 3D printers, and how they can be used to make guns. Fearing another…
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As UK Pirate Party Takes Down Pirate Bay Proxy, Two Other Pirate Parties Bring New Ones Up
The sad defeat of yesterday was that the UK Pirate Party had succumbed to legal threats and taken down its long-used proxy for The…
Read MoreThere Is Never A Need To Justify Sharing Culture And Knowledge
Just as some misguided people react with hostility to the fact that the copyright monopoly is not a birthright, they can react with hostility…
Read MorePirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade
Today, the Swedish Pirate Party filed formal charges against Swedish banks for their discrimination against WikiLeaks, which has been systematically denied donations by payment…
Read MoreThe Copyright Monopoly Is A Market Distortion, Not A Birthright
When you start questioning the copyright monopoly, many middlemen and other has-beens start acting offended – as if you have somehow questioned a natural…
Read MoreFour More Reasons The Pirate Bay Is Effectively A Public Library – And A Great One
File sharing fulfills the exact same need and purpose as public libraries did when they first appeared, and is met with the exact same…
Read MoreThe Declared Value System: Managing Monopolies for the Public Good
What would a truly free-market approach to copyrights and patents look like? The problem we have right now is this: The flat green line…
Read MoreIt's Not "Getting" Or "Downloading" A Copy. It's "Making" Or "Manufacturing" One.
In the political fight for civil liberties and sharing culture, language is everything – which can be observed by the copyright industry’s consistent attempts…
Read MoreThe Pirate Bay Is The World's Most Efficient Public Library
The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This…
Read MoreWhen Did It Become Our Job To Fix Their Business?
I was arguing with someone on Reddit recently over monopoly reform, and instinctively, I started to say “There are a whole galaxy of other…
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