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Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
The copyright monopoly is based on the idea of an exchange. In exchange for exclusive rights, the copyright industry supplies culture and knowledge to the public. It turns out that the entire premise is a lie, as untethered creators are racing to provide culture and knowledge anyway. By Rick Falkvinge.
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
File-sharing was already rampant when Pirate Party's Rick Falkvinge was growing up in Sweden. They had Sneakernet, which was quite comparable in sharing efficiency - not just over large distances.
People started sharing files with each other - text, games, music - as soon as there was a storage medium you ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
The copyright monopoly war wasn't the war, it was the tutorial mission. The internet generation is using technology to assert its values and its place in society, and the old industrial generation is pushing back hard against irrelevance. Things are about to get much worse. By Rick Falvinge.
People sometimes ask ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
Throughout history, those who have copied the most have also always been the most prosperous, and for that reason. Bans on copying, like the copyright and patent monopolies, are just plain industrial protectionism. By Rick Falkvinge.
It often helps to understand present time by looking at history, and seeing how history ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2014
We've been manufacturing without a license in our homes for 30 years now. It's about to go physical. Maybe that will wake legislators up to the bigger picture. If not, we're in for something much worse. By Rick Falkvinge.
We’ve been manufacturing our own copies of knowledge and culture without ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Collecting societies, claiming to represent artists, are gathering billions of euros and claiming to represent the artists. In reality, there is little difference between their actions and that of organized crime. One simple solution may be to raise the bar for "originality" to exclude music. By Rick Falkvinge.
In America, Europe ...
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Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
“You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the copyright industry as people shared culture and knowledge online. “You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the English after the Boston Tea Party. The underlying mechanisms are basically the same. By Rick Falkvinge.
With every ...
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Saturday, December 7th, 2013
The emergence of experimental legally autonomous startup zones in Honduras and other places is one of the most exciting developments in a long time, and forebodes the collapse of the copyright industry’s tyranny over culture and knowledge. By Rick Falkvinge.
I believe in competition. I believe in experimentation to see what ...
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Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Surveillance and wiretapping have again become hot topics. Let’s see how the copyright industry has been pushing for draconian logging policies to help their surveillance efforts - they’re one of the major players in this field. By Rick Falkvinge.
There are many different forces pushing us toward a Big Brother dystopia.
There ...
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