Teaching copyright right

Quote from todays newsletter from EFF (the Electronic Frontier Foundation): “Last week, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation – a nonprofit mouthpiece for the entertainment and software industries – unveiled plans to spread its protectionist ideas to the nation’s schools and libraries through the distribution of a curriculum titled “Think First, Copy Later.” “Think First, Copy […]

Climate Greenwash Award winner announced: Vattenfall!

This weekend, an alliance consisting of Corporate Europe Observatory, Attac, Klimabevægelsen (Danish for ‘Climate Movement’), KlimaX and NOAH held the so-called ‘Climate Greenwash Award’-show in Denmark. A satirical event aimed at creating critical awareness of the Business Summit held in Denmark the very same weekend. From the Climate Greenwash Award website: Big business is keen […]

Manufactured news on Danish TV2 – #tv2wikigate

These last days an interesting topic has circled in the Danish blogosphere; a quite embarrasing one for Danish national television channel TV2, who was simply caught manufacturing news. The event has been named #tv2wikigate and started when I the live morning show ‘Go’ Morgen Danmark’ on Danish national television channel TV2 on May 13, 2009, […]

Danish newspaper war summarized

In recent years a newspaper war raged in Denmark – mainly as a consequence of fierce competition between the well-established Danish printing houses and a new Icelandic-funded intruder, battling to lead the free daily newspaper market. It did indeed get bloody. Given my interest in the ongoing global paradigm change in news publication (news moving […]

Gee, I wish there was a way I could do less with my music, maybe someone is offering that product today

Cory Doctorow, author and web-savvyness extraordinaire, came up with the most dead-on one liner about the ridiculousness of the concept of DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection of online content, when he recently appeared before an audience of book publishers at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference: “No one woke up this morning and […]

Piracy – the result of a market failure

If you have just the slightest interest in the heated debate about filesharing and torrents going on right now, you should read the brilliant piece author Matt Mason (of the book The Pirate Dilemma fame – a truly eye opening book about the topic) has written for the TorrentFreak blog, adressing not only The Pirate […]

The Pirate Bay trial invalid? (translation of Swedish article)

Just a couple of hour ago, this breaking news article was published on the webpage of SR (Swedish National Radio). It unveils how the judge of the The Pirate Bay spectrial is actually an active member of the Swedish copyright lobby. As no English media has picked up the story yet, I have made a […]

The Pirate Bay announced guilty

Minutes ago the official ‘spectrial‘-verdict of the Swedish Court was announced, and rules in favor of the prosecution. The four accused TBP-founders have all been sentenced to 1 year in prison. A couple of hours ago, however, Peter Sunde – spokesman for The Pirate Bay (TPB) and one of the founders on trial – tweeted […]

Internet being bombed back to the stone age tomorrow?

Tomorrow will be a big milestone in Internet-, technology-, copyright-, music-, movie- and civil right history: The Swedish court will announce their verdict in the so-called ‘spectrial‘, where the people behind The Pirate Bay (TBP) have been accused ao. of assisting copyright infringement. Although both parties will appeal the sentence if being ruled against, it […]

High expectations

Am I the only one who is enormously curious to find out what Flattr is? I did not know about the thing before it was mentioned in a tweet from Peter Sunde, one of people behind the The Pirate Bay, a couple of days ago. Waiting impatiently.