Infopolicy: After the well-received ACTA rejection by the three first committes in the European Parliament, things are looking hopeful to prevent this middlemen-regime treaty from ever becoming ...
Don’t kid yourselves, artists, authors, and other creative people: charging money to access your work is morally reprehensible. You can argue semantics all you like, and call it “selling&...
Infopolicy: Three heavyweight committees in the European Parliament gave their voting recommendations on ACTA today. All three gave the same recommendation: reject ACTA. This means that today, t...
Activism: May 31, three key committees in the European Parliament will vote on ACTA. As of this writing, that is tomorrow – by the time you read this, it is less than 24 hours away. The co...
“First it’s a hypothesis, then it’s a theory, then it’s a law.” At first I wasn’t sure how such drivel ended up finding its way into grade school science classes, ...
Copyright Monopoly: “Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that ...
Personal – Travis McCrea: Our world has become so much about how much worse other people are making things, and finding ways to promote our own ideology while putting down another person o...
Copyright Monopoly: 61% of 15-25-year-olds engage directly in sharing of culture. The social pressure for upholding the copyright monopoly laws is close to non-existent. The few who are deterred...
Pirate Parties: Here is useful footage and photos from the Pirate Party’s election win in North Rhine-Westphalia. Free for any use. All media here is public domain / CC-zero: any and all r...
Metaposts: Selecting the correct tone of voice for an article is so much more than just writing what you think – or what you feel. It has quickly grown to a complex game of politics and pl...
Germany: Today, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany went to the polls. This election is always closely watched in Germany, as it is the country’s most populous state. As expected, the Pirate...
Corruption: Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently (something Techdirt calls Censorship Crazy), appears to have quite a bit of dirt...
Repression: Reality sometimes does exceed fiction. Three days ahead of the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, the Piratenpartei‘s website has been di...
Pirate Parties: While the Germans voted their Piratenpartei into Parliament in Schleswig-Holstein last Sunday, the Greeks also went to the polling stations. The Greek Pirate Party did an amazing...
Freedom of Speech – Andrew Lee: As outdated as a broken record, the UK is once again considering a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor adult content online. With the recent ...
Metaposts: Over the past months, Falkvinge on Infopolicy has slowly become multilingual – observant readers have seen the “English” drop-down in the top left corner and discove...
Pirate Parties: I just came back from the victory party in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state. The German Piratenpartei has done it again, and entered its third state parliam...
Privacy: All too often, I hear the word “Facebook” being used as justifications for why people with the connected lifestyle don’t deserve any privacy. The argument goes along t...
Pirate Parties: The German Pirate Party’s General Assembly is in progress, with 2800 people gathered in Neumünster – the largest party assembly in Germany’s democratic history,...
Europe – Andrew Norton: Yesterday was day nine in the trial of Anders Breivik, the man behind the events in Oslo and Utøya last July. And in keeping with the thoughts expressed by their Pr...
Activism: Recently at a press conference, another party group in the European Parliament came out in rejection of ACTA. This time, it marked a significant milestone, as a majority of the party g...
Copyright Monopoly: Today, a book that I have co-authored with Christian Engström (pictured), Member of European Parliament, is released with celebrations and signing in the European Parliament....
Infopolicy: Apparently, some older artists – those who are lucky enough to live off of monopolies from times past rather than actual production or performance – have come out in Germ...
Metaposts: Ok, so the server went down in flames and smoke just as I had left for a presentation in Moscow, Russia. As I came back home and started troubleshooting, I realized things were worse ...
Copyright Monopoly: In our series showcasing Sweden as a country that likes to pretend it champions net freedom, but itself does the exact opposite: did you know that Sweden has given the copyri...
Pirate Parties: In the local election of Innsbruck, the Austrian Pirate Party has sent shockwaves by taking its first Austrian seat, finishing at 3.8% in the election. This caused frontpage news...
Pirate Parties: The Pirate Parties International 2012 General Assembly is in progress. These are notes that I take as the meeting goes – just personal reflections. (This page updates as ne...
Pirate Parties: Once a year, every year, people from the world’s pirate parties gather to exchange experiences, get to know one another, and formally vote on the leadership on the Pirate P...
Copyright Monopoly – Jack Zeal: “To Be Esteemed, Be Useful”. A premise so simple and sound, it was one of the earliest mottos of the United States, appearing on their coinage ...
Pirate Parties: Among all the bad laws being passed right now, change is coming. The Pirate Party’s plan for changing the world is proceeding much, much faster than expected. While the law...
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