Antipiracy = terrorism?
The torrenttracker/site swebits is down. Most of you who tend to use this site has most likely noticed the nice sign at the door regarding first, a DDoS attack and then faulty hardware in servers abroad wich makes it a little harder to fix. Heres a swedish article about it: http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.2349481/fildelningssajt-har-lagts-ned And just like the terror organisations in middle east, out comes Henrik Ponte’n and claims responsability. To me, its a little... Read More
Oh, come on already. You gotta be kidding!
According to CopySweden, Home burned CDs are at a new low and they are looking to generate income from other storagemedi….. WAIT A MINUTE. We already pay unknown people to be able to store our vacation photos and whatnot just for the sake of the ”Possibility to use to store copywrited material” and we also get flooded with the latest commercials when listening to music on the radio. Now they want to add the SAME PENALTY ON MEMORYCARDS?!? They have got to be joking... Read More
View through my glasses
Yesterday, while on a train ride home I got asked on my political views since I am wearing a pirate party keychain. Well, I explained to him that yes, my vote will go to the pirate party. And the person more or less exploded in my face demanding to know how I could vote for a ”one-issue party”. Well, then came a nice little diatribe about stealing artists material, freeloader, etc etc etc. I let him ramble on for a while and simply stated that I couldnt care less about... Read More
Censorship, the silent creativity killer (Rambling set to ON)
These days censoring things have become more and more common again for some reason and unfortunatly, the reasons are none other then pure greed and monetary interrests. Do you remember when democracy was a lead and a motto that was to be followed and everyone was to have their say in the proceedings in what went on and what was decided? Well, when it comes to art, this is no longer true. Lets say that I make a really cool video with pretty much whatever, it might even be one... Read More
The enemy of the internet. Part II
A while back I wrote a post called Sarkozy, the enemy of the internet about how the french want to start disconnecting people who fileshare over the internet. This was a highly controversial thing to say and in my ears, pure stupidity. Why let the hobbypolice that resides within the media industry waltz around doing whatever it wants and without much proof, and remove peoples way to interact with eachother? Now, some people say ”they have evidence”. Of course they... Read More
Analyzing filesharing (MONSTER post)
Filesharing is a hot potatoe these days, and while I am Pro in some situations, I can take a different standpoint in others. For instance, I am for filesharing software for personal, non-profit purposes. I think I covered that in another post somewhere, but, for creation thousands of copies of something and SELL it? No. THAT is theft, because then you have stolen a sale that the recorded artist would have made. However, you cant calculate your losses using the formula ”X*Y=Z”... Read More
The wallet connections between filesharers and Hollywood
You probably have noticed that I read and think a lot about filesharing, p2p and pretty much everything in that corner, so I am guessing that there is no big surprise that I dig up news about it in various places. I might not be the first to write about it, but I dont need to be, I feel that it is better to have a broad front and reach many, then to contend to be first and maybe not get the whole story. Anyhoo, the P2P developer Vuze, who used to program and maintain azureus,... Read More
Kristdemokrater are filesharing at their site!
It appears that some of the members of Kristdemokraterna is actually giving away Adobe Photoshop CS2 on their blog, the trick is, they are also supplying what is commonly known as a ”keygen”. A keygen is basically a number generator that generates a serial number for a predefined software. In this case, Photoshop. Here is a screenshot of their site: As you can see, the screenshot has been made and well, since we have it, we have evidence of it, correct? Lets all file... Read More
Sarkozy, the enemy of the internet
It appears that the French government has pulled something out of the blue that really, really is cause for a second french revolution. At least in my book. Here is the article: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article5128913.ab Hear me out here BEFORE you decide to bomb the comment block. Filesharing is a pretty hot topic right now and has for some reason, become a synonym with software and art piracy. Now, I am not really sure but isn’t pretty much EVERYTHING on the internet... Read More