Police beating up G20 protesters – and bystanders

What is it with some law enforcement officers and their absurd way of keeping peace during protests against financial summits such as the recent G20-meeting? It seems that the people protesting against hypercapitalism are considered as outlaws by just being present. How many examples of police brutality against such rallies have we seen in recent […]

aXXo – superstar of the new millennium

As the world is constantly changing, so are it’s celebrities. We’ve been used to people worshipping reality-tv stars and tracking every single move they make. Now, in this web 2.0 world, however, a new sort of superstar is rising, namely the anonymous, faceless web supergeeks – such as ‘aXXo’, one of the worlds most renowned […]

Dropped my coffee

What a scare, today’s first April fool. Dropped my coffee before realizing the scam. Damn you Swedes! 🙂 Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay

Behavioral Targeting Ad Program

It fills me with intimidation to read about Google’s new initiative; the behavioral targeting ad program. Am I the only one who thinks about 1984 and big brother in general when online habits are so thoroughly mapped and exploited? EFF (Electronica Frontier Foundation) writes: “Today Google launched its behavioral targeting ad program, which it calls […]

Brave New Films

I would like to present a great phenomenon that I’ve learned of recently (from reading an article in Danish newspaper, Information – it’s in Danish, read it here). The phenomenon is a small compony by the name of Brave New Films, an Los Angeles-based independent film production company, founded by Robert Greenwald, specializing in creating […]

NRK launches bittorrent tracker

Interesting turn of events in the wake of the spectrial (the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, read further below). NRK, Norway’s public service channel, just announced that they are launching a bittorrent tracker based on the same code as The Pirate Bay (the OpenTracker software). Initially they’ll use it to offer their shows for download. […]

Pirate Bay spectrial detailed account tips

If you are really into following the ‘spectrial’ closely, I suggest you keep an eye on TorrentFreak, that blogs daily from the court room. Also, signing up to TPB-member Peter Sunde’s live-tweets is quite interesting (and funny). Naturally, also his blog is a vital source of information.

The Pirate Bay trial update

As we hold our breath hoping that the Bit Torrent technology and ideology front line portal The Pirate Bay will not ordered to seize and desist, updates come in from all sides. A couple of select headlines: Making a “Spectrial” of it, Pirate Bay trial broadcast live – and also, the articles from the other […]

Another slick tactical media strike

I have a weak spot for the web activists do tactical media strikes in the shape of mock versions of corporate websites (classics being RTmarks fake George W. Bush website back when the bozo was running for guvernor in Texas). One of the latest succesful ones target Canon – check it out…and more out. I […]

Operators of the The Pirate Bay stand trial

The war rages on. Slashdot writes: “Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. The four defendants have run the […]