Swedish Pirate Party launches as ISP // #privacy

The Swedish Pirate Party once again draws headlines (in a recent post here, I also mentioned how they’ve started hosting The Pirate Bay website). This time the gung-ho party announce how they will launch as ISP (Internet Service Provider) in order to offer a service that is completely safe and private for users – by […]

Support and sign the ACTA-declaration from EFF! #eff #acta

I do not normally endorse causes with so little subtlety as in the headline above, but in this case I urge everyone to sign the petition to support the ACTA-declaration by EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Read why here (please do!) and sign here.

Big Content’s war on democracy / #acta

We’ve probably all been following the ACTA-case with our breath held back to some extent (if you haven’t really been paying close attention, check out this great video – it’s 40 minutes, but really worth it). In this post I will not deal with the ACTA details themselves, but rather point the attention towards one […]

Making Closed Software Act Like It’s Open

Via Slashdot and Gizmag: “Researchers from the University of Washington have managed to add customization and accessibility options to proprietary software without ever touching the source code. Rather than alter program code, Prefab looks for the pixels associated with the blocks of code used to paint applications to a screen, grabs hold of them, and […]

European parliament rejects ACTA in massive 633 to 13 vote

Euractiv writes, “The European Parliament defied the EU executive today (10 March), casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice. An overwhelming majority of MEPs (663 in favour and 13 against) today […]

Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency

My friend Henrik (@moltke) was on Danish national tv a couple of days ago (see video below) to talk about the major concern of open Internet proponent communities across the globe towards the closed nature of the ACTA (Anti-Countergeiting Trade Agreement) negotiations taking place right now – a measure lead by among other the Danish […]

FAT Labs vs. Google

Last week here in Berlin the Transmediale Festival took place – and it was great. However, the icing on the cake is to be attributed entirely to Berlin’s own FAT Labs art activism group (Free Art & Technology), who not only had an intriguing stall at the festival itself (titled ‘Fuck Google‘), but also put […]

Denmark ditches Microsoft

This Friday morning it has been announced by the Danish government, that the Danish state administrative body will adopt the open format ODF as its sole document standard from April next year. This means that the Danish state will now ditch Microsoft’s proprietary document formats. Below is a translation of the article just published by […]

The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans

Now this is something that I, as a complete Apple-o-phile, have also often pondered: How does Apple manage to retain it’s image as the favorite hard- and software provider for the world’s creative open culture community while being such a proprietary-centered business? It’s an immense paradox – which is highlighted in this interesting article from […]

Mass photography event in London today: I’m a photographer, not a terrorist

From Boing Boing: “A reminder for Londoners: there’s a mass photo shoot-in at midday today in Trafalgar Square, to protest English cops’ continuing harassment of photographers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act.” Read the original post here – or visit the official website of the campaign.