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• 04.29.11
  There is nothing radical about making corporate adverts Campaigning, Copyright, Media studies | (4)

  Radical media has a long history in social movements, from The British Worker, launched during the 1926 TUC General Strike, via audio cassettes with subversive messages passed around during the Iranian revolution, the Zapatistas, Samizdat and Indymedia to blogs, Facebook and Twitter used during the recent revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. Faced with a corporate media focused on maintaining the status quo, social movements have for years been concerned with creating their own media as a platform to express their ideas as well as to avoid, subvert and challenge dominant power structures. The term ‘radical media’ itself also has a long ...
• 11.21.09
  My letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill Copyright, Digital tech | (1)

  Dear Jeremy I'm writing to you to express my concerns over the new Digital Economy Bill. It's my understanding that the role of the Bill is to help stimulate the digitial economy of Britain. However, as far as I can see, there isn't anything in the Bill that does that. Nothing about cheap, fast and open broadband. Nothing about reform of copyright to help entrepeneurs. Nothing about giving people the right to use publicly funded media to create new media. Nothing about how to bridge the digital divide. Nothing about how young people are going to be encouraged to use digital technology ...
• 11.05.09
  Pirates-Mafia, 1-0 Copyright | (0)

  Last night the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers reached an agreement over the much talked about (or not so much talked about, depending on which country you live in), Europan 'Telecoms Reform Package'. In short the Package is a number of proposed laws concerning competition, consumer rights and surveillance on the internet, including a controversial proposal that it should be legal to restrict access to the internet for file-sharers without a court order. The agreement means that member countries will not be allowed to do this. A great success, according to Christian Engström, Swedish Pirate Party MEP: "To be honest, ...
• 10.18.09
  The ‘Brokep affair’ – how far is the copyright-mafia prepared to go? Copyright | (0)

  Earlier this year a Swedish court found the four guys behind The Pirate Bay - Fredrik Sunde, Gottfrid Swarholm-Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström - guilty of breaking copyright law. The four were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay £3 million in damages. They are currently appealing the decision. The trial - dubbed #spectrial by the Pirate Bay- was widely publicised across the world. What's not so widely know, however, is that three of the defendants - Sunde, Swartholm-Warg and Neij - are also currently involved in a court case in the Netherlands. The Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN ...