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Nous sommes partis de l’idée qu’une politique culturelle de gauche doit permettre aux travailleurs de la culture de vivre de leur travail, au public de rencontrer les œuvres et encourager la diversité culturelle. Or les politiques actuelles de protection des droits d’auteur et de la propriété intellectuelle n’atteignent pas ces objectifs. La loi Internet et création, dite Hadopi, qui criminalise les échanges culturels non lucratifs, est inacceptable. Les artistes qui vivent de leur travail sont très peu nombreux. Si l’on souhaite que l’art se transforme en culture pour tous, des modèles alternatifs sont à trouver.
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~ Vote Pirate! Notes from a Pirate Party conferenceThe church of Kopimism considers the sharing of digital information to be a sacred act, and holds as its primary tenet: “‘Copy and Paste what thou wilt’ shall be the whole of the law.” In her slide deck, Pespisa proudly showed one of the Kopimists’ cherished symbols, a yin and yang with the copy-and-paste commands “Ctrl-C” and “Ctrl-V.”
“There isn’t really a god involved or anything. You’re not going to hell if you don’t share,” Pespisa said, one of many remarks that drew waves of laughter from her fellow pirates. Kopimism has a founder—Isak Gerson—”but we don’t worship him.”
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La vision écologiste d’Internet est celle d’un réseau libre, neutre et accessible à tous. Cette perspective ne date pas d’hier, et n’a pas attendu la candidature d’Eva Joly à l’élection présidentielle pour s’exprimer. Dès 2009, les Verts européens - qui siègent d’ailleurs aux côtés du Parti pirate suédois au Parlement européen - se déclaraient en faveur d’une légalisation du partage de fichier à but non commercial ; c’est là l’une de leurs revendications phares, parmi bien d’autres (moins de copyright, plus d’open source, pas de brevet logiciel, respect de la neutralité des réseaux…)
~ Eva Joly & EELV : le programme numérique que les internautes attendent - le Plus -
Most people agree that the internet has made us smarter — will it also make us freer? That depends on how we use it. Burnham believes that industries which produce content (Hollywood, music corporations, television) should be required to adapt, rather than “kill the medium.” He says that although we’re used to seeing artists portrayed as the victims in this debate, it’s really the industries that are suffering. “Artists are beginning to find really creative ways of financing projects, distributing projects, promoting projects and that’s great. The industry is a little bit slower to adapt.” And maybe they should.
~ The Right to Piracy: The Conflict Behind SOPA | Think Tank | Big Think -
The theft-metaphor is problematic in the sense that a key element of stealing is that the one stolen from loses the object, which is not the case in file sharing since it is copied. There is no loss when something is copied, or the loss is radically different from losing something like your bike,” Larsson explains.
~ Piracy is NOT Theft: Problems of a Nonsense Metaphor | TorrentFreak -
One of the main reasons we all have anti-piracy slogans embedded in our brains is because the music industry chose to try and protect its existing market and revenue streams at all costs and marginalise and vilify those who didn’t want to conform to the harsh new rules being set.
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Jonathan Rugman, a reporter for Channel 4 News in London, writes on Twitter from Westminster Magistrates’ court that the head of the legal team for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, arrived wearing a skull and crossbones tie for the first hearing in the case. Mr. Rugman observes: “Internet pirates vs. Swedish prosecutor then!” He added that Mr. Assange is due to appear in the court in the next few minutes. (via Latest Updates on Leak of U.S. Cables, Day 10 - NYTimes.com)
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Homeland Security’s ability to shut down sites without a court order evidently comes from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a Clinton-era law that allows Web sites to be closed on the basis of a copyright complaint. Critics have long assailed the DMCA for being too broad, as complainants don’t need to prove copyright infringement before a site can be taken down. News of the shutdowns has some observers wondering whether the US really needs COICA, the anti-counterfeiting bill that passed through a Senate committee with unanimous approval last week. That bill would allow the federal government to block access to Web sites that attorneys general deem to have infringed on copyright.
~ Homeland Security shuts down dozens of Web sites without court order | Raw Story -
~ Anti-Piracy Group Reports Torrent Site Users to the Police | TorrentFreakAccording to the anti-piracy outfit, the reported users were caught sharing a copy of the newly released Windows 7 Ultimate operating system. As evidence the self-proclaimed investigators submitted a screenshot of peers listed by uTorrent.
The owner of LinkoManija was not impressed by LANVA’s actions. “Anyone can copy a peer list, but it doesn’t prove that anyone downloaded the full file or actually uploaded anything,” Kestas told TorrentFreak. “It can’t be used as serious evidence,” he added.
LANVA disagrees and hopes that the police will track down the identities of the accused infringers. If this happens the users will face fines of up to several hundred dollars, plus additional damages Microsoft’s lawyers may call for.
