Infopolicy – Zacqary Adam Green: Information technology, among all that it does, brings together two things which are wonderful when apart, and frightening when combined: children, and sex...
Civil Liberties: The news just broke: Germany says it will not be signing ACTA for the time being. The news (Spiegel, Netzpolitik) seems to cast the future of ACTA into serious doubt. The accord...
Activism – Zacqary Adam Green: The copyright industry is not going quietly. The legitimacy of its monopolist and consumerist practices are still upheld by policymakers and panicking creato...
Repression: Documents have emerged from the European Commission that give a glimpse of the planned crackdown on online freedoms of speech post-ACTA. We’re seeing entirely new mechanisms an...
Infopolicy: I live in Stockholm, Sweden. A hundred years ago, one of the largest employers in the city was a company named Stockholm Ice. Their business was as straightforward as it was necessar...
Activism: Just look at this map. I’ve never seen anything like it in terms of people all across Europe demanding their freedom of speech and being angry against backroom corporativist deal...
Freedom of Speech – Andrew Norton: The US as an ‘idea’ is dying. The country that used to pride itself on free speech, democracy, and being ‘the last remaining superpower’, is now apparent...
Repression: In an inadvertent slip, the European Commission reveals that ACTA will indeed bring censorship to the Internet. As usual, they say this in the calmest soothing tone of voice. The Eur...
Corruption: In what can only be described as an all-out declaration of war with the Internet, the Swedish Supreme Court has denied the final hearing in the trial of the original The Pirate Bay o...
Repression – Thijs Markus: A recent article by Rick Falkvinge posed the question: If ACTA doesn’t change anything, why are they pushing for its passage as if their life depended on it? Wel...
Civil Liberties: Every time changes to the copyright monopoly are considered, the profits of major entertainment industry companies are at the center of the discussion. Even the people who fierc...
Corruption: The ACTA awareness and debate has finally heated up. But in such a huge, convoluted and deliberately complex document, how can you determine for yourself whether it’s good or b...
Columns: It is said that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-se...
Europe: This just in: the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the ACTA agreement, an agreement which is about as bad as SOPA and creates seriously repressive legislation – that rappo...
Copyright Monopoly: In a shock ruling in the UK this Tuesday, a photo was found to be in violation of the copyright monopoly of another photographer. There’s only one hitch with this rulin...
Заголовки @ru: Европейские Зеленые приняли позицию Пиратов по поводу монополии на авторское право, в связи с чем я получил ряд вопросов от предпринимателей, лоббистов индустрии авторского право ...
Infopolicy – Anonymous: For the rich West and North, the copyright and patent monopolies are a moral nuisance and an impediment to progress, argues this anonymous guest contributor. For th...
Activism – Travis McCrea: The US media industries along with their cronies in the United States Federal Government are no longer fighting with the weight of law against the process of shar...
Copyright Monopoly: Whenever I argue that the copyright monopoly isn’t necessary to incentivize culture production, I hear the counterargument that multi-million-euro movie productions wou...
Personal: Today, on the 21st of January, it is 40 years since I was born in 1972. Therefore, I am taking the liberty of taking a day off from activism and celebrating this event with my close an...
Process of Law – Zacqary Adam Green: Oh boy, another police state bill enters the US Congress! The Enemy Expatriation Act will allow citizens to be stripped of their nationality for “...
Infopolicy: YesterdayR 17;s blackout was an interesting experience. But before I say anything else, let me yay Mike Masnick of Techdirt who has been the hero through this whole ordeal. Masnick...
Infopolicy: Today, Wednesday January 18, the world protests against proposed censorship laws in the United States. It is a protest of unprecedented scale, ranging from Google to Wikipedia to Red...
Repression: News reached me this morning that authorities in the United States has decided to harass yet another of my colleagues. Australian activist Asher Wolf’s communications have been...
Pirate Parties: Stop whatever you’re doing right now and watch this eight-minute speech from Christopher Lauer, a Member of State Parliament in Berlin who was elected last fall. After you&...
Swarm Management: In 2011, I managed to transition from leader of a local Pirate Party to an international voice on information policy and civil liberties matters. These are my plans for 2012. A...
Pirate Parties – Christian Engström: It’s been two and a half years since the European Elections in 2009, when I was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Pirat...
Corruption: A study by MediaMatters confirmed the gut feeling we all had: there is indeed a mainstream media blackout going on over the SOPA law that would censor the Internet in the United Stat...
Privacy – Zacqary Adam Green: One of the the drawbacks to a perfectly private society is the impossibility of preventing voter fraud; without knowing who’s who, there’s no way ...
Copyright Monopoly: Legal scholar Stephen Kinsella argues a fascinating line of thought I haven’t seen before: the entire copyright monopoly in the United States may actually be unconstitu...
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