January272010
"By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy."
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Jérémie Zimmermann
spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net
Tags: /ACTA /Internet neutrality /internet /copyright /democracy
November152009
HD Movies & TV Shows Online Streaming »
This page offers high quality actual movies an series, it is really well done and it’s ad free. However, it is a bit of a mystery since nobody seems to know who’s behind it.
Yesterday I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I’m really impressed. I had only some problems with the video stalling, but reloading the page did the trick.
It looks to good to be true (streaming such high quality video costs money), and since the web doesn’t really look licit — there are only vague references as to where the films come from — I wonder how long will it last.
One question I have is: if I would actually want to pay for a similar and legal service of the same quality, where should I turn to? To my knowledge there’s nothing like that available in Sweden (and in most european countries I would say).
It was brought to my attention yesterday by a post from Ted Valentin. Amusingly, I see today that the mystery continues to spread (read here and here).
November52009
Telecom package: Final agreed text « Christian Engström, Pirate MEP »
The Telecom package final text in the European Parliament.
Tags: /politics /Telecom package /Europe /European parliament /Pirate party /internet /Internet neutrality /copyright
October312009
The Net and the European Union
I found this article really interesting and I though I’d translate it to english (it is originally written in spanish). The article is from Enrique Dans and published at Expansión on the 29th of October 2009. Enrique Dans is a known spanish blogger and Expansión is a also an important spanish economic journal.
This is, of course, my own free translation of the article, and neither I or my small site has any relation with the author or the journal where it was published.
The article:
This is not what they sold to us. The European Union, at the Net level, is a bad joke: we have a continent that does not work in the Net and a European Parliament determined to make it work even less.
Tags: /Enrique Dans /Europe /European Union /Expansión /Spain /copyright /economy /electronic commerce /translation /web /customs
September242009
"Piracy is what people carrying guns on the high seas do: capturing ships, stealing cargo and turning crews and passengers into hostages, sometimes murdering them. Piracy does not describe what people do when they post digital music on file-sharing networks."
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Dan Gillmor
(via El Blog de Enrique Dans : Mediactive)
Tags: /piracy /record labels /file-sharing /copyright
