Posts tagged copyright
All is not well in Ireland
While most Internet Service Providers (or ISPs) try to walk the thin red line between fighting copyright holding monopolies and providing unbiased quality service to their customers, others go to great lengths to please the copyright overlords.
There are various degrees here. In France, Orange and SFR jumped in the board of the “three s [...]
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Age Of Irony
Irony 1: buy the Guy Fawkes mask to protest against copyright dictatorship, mask which is trademarked by Warner Bros, the top supporter of SOPA and ACTA via its legal arm (the MPAA). So: more anti-copyright, anti-ACTA protesters with quality masks means more money feeding legal protection for the dictators.
Irony 2: we have top-notch smartph [...]
Copyright: Cut Off the Middleman
For years I’ve been preaching the removal of distributors from the distribution chain. Whether it’s books, movies or music, an artist can do better on its own. You’re a writer? Forget the publishing house, publish yourself! Musician? Distribute the music on your own, deal with a music store (Amazon, Apple) or setup your own [...]
The Pirates Are Coming
Yesterday, the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) gathered over 8% of the Berlin State Election cast ballots, pushing the 5% required margin and cornering more prominent parties, such as the anti-European radicals and the nationalists.
The first pirate party was founded in January 2006 in Sweden (the famous Piratpartiet), in the wake of the [...]
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