Today’s technology shift has many parallels with the arrivals of mass-printed books at universities. At the time, teachers at universities were horrified that the…
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Rick Falkvinge's 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries
There is a number of industries today that are already obsolete, kept alive by sheer inertia or by political subsidies. Many politicians, in an…
Read MoreAn Author's Perspective: Copyright Maximalists Harm Authors
Copyright maximalists want all sorts of new laws to “help authors get paid”. Well, I’m a published author, and all their efforts to “help”…
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Six Months Until European Elections; Pirate Party Scorecard All One Could Hope For
Six months from today, on May 25, the Pirate Party movement has its first re-election as the Swedish Pirate Party defends its two seats…
Read MoreNSA Mass Surveillance Has Already Been Used For Ordinary Police Work
The NSA has used its ubiquitous wiretapping for ordinary police work. It used mass surveillance to prevent the murder of an eccentric artist, according…
Read MoreLouis Michel Affair: Lobbies Switch From Influencing To Directly Writing European Laws
Belgian Member of European Parliament Louis Michel was recently ranked the second worst regarding Data Privacy issues by the LobbyPlag.eu website for submitting 158…
Read MoreSwedish Regime To Give Police, Customs, Tax Authorities Realtime Access to Citizens' Phone, Mail, More
The Swedish citizens will get all their phone calls and e-mail traffic wiretapped in real time not just by the Swedish NSA branch, but…
Read MoreNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux
The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week’s…
Read More"Free" Does Not Mean "Exempt From Criticism"
“What is everyone complaining about? This is a free service, and [large corporation] can do whatever they want with it!” That’s true. Also wrong….
Read MoreBitcoin's Real Revolution Isn't Hard Money, It's Economic Panarchy
The earth-shattering thing about bitcoin isn’t its fixed money supply. It’s not the carefully tuned algorithm that keeps its growth at a steady rate,…
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