A call for respect and fullfilling of the rights of citizens and artists in the digital era

During the last years, innumerous organisations, activists, researchers and others savvy of the Internet have been fighting to create awareness of the importance of retaining net neutrality in the online sphere, where a myriad of commercial interests are using every possible means to gain dominance. Yet another large-scale initiative of advocacy is now taking place […]

The Pirate Bay ownership to change hands?

This was just announced minutes ago on The Pirate Bay blog: TPB might change owner Yes, it’s true. News reached the press today in Sweden – The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB. A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either! TPB is being sold […]

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 […]

Swedish repercussions

Following the announcement of the verdict in the trial against The Pirate Bay (the so-called ‘spectrial‘) yesterday, the web has been buzzing with reactions. For one, the Swedish Pirate Party gained more than 3,000 Swedish members in just 7 hours, with a huge amount of people from around the world asking whether they could join […]

Rev Billy in Wall Street Journal

Things are surely a-changing in this time of financial apocalypse. Just one year ago, who would have thought that the Wall Street Journal would run a story – a highly positive story – on the anti-consumerist thoughts of magnificent activist Reverend Billy and The Church of Life After Shopping? Read the article – with quotes […]

Save the Union Square Pavillion

Since moving back to Denmark from New York City in February 2008, I’ve followed the public debate of the Union Square Pavillion closely. In short, the great landmark is facing privatization by being sold to private entrepreneurs that will turn it from being a public accessible building into becoming a up-scaled restaurant. If you have […]

Microsoft discontinues Encarta

Another symbol of the old proprietary world falls: Microsoft Encarta will be discontinued on October 31. No wonder – who wants to pay for an encyclopedia, when everything is on Wikipedia for free? With updates every minute – and written by the people of the world, not only biased first-world historians. Read Microsoft’s announcement here.

“Click-fraud” civil disobedience campaign

I love civil disobedience campaigns like this one (found at Slashdot): “In response to Google’s recently announced plans to expand the tracking of users, the international anti-advertising magazine Adbusters proposes that we collectively embark on a civil disobedience campaign of intentional, automated ‘click fraud’ in order to undermine Google’s advertising program in order to force […]

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. […]

Shooting in the NY subway

All of us who has ever visited New York has sneaked into shooting a few pictures in the subway, even if it is not allowed. The setting is so compelling and each subway station has its own unique and indeed very photogenic identity that gives everyone with a camera an itchy trigger finger. However, it […]