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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Visiting Parliament this week
I’m visiting the European Parliament this week (which is actually formally my place of work). There is no shortage of humor and absurdity in…
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Arrived at TheNextWeb, Amsterdam NL
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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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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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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