copyright infringement

Piracy news (!) It is reported that “Sharp Rise in Piracy Rates Across Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway”

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Well, there are so many streaming platforms. One cannot subscribe to them all. Sharp Rise in Piracy Rates Across Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway With Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway under the spotlight once again, Mediavision’s pan-Nordic consumer survey aims to measure unlicensed content consumption among 15 to 74-year-old respondents, across categories including movies and … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Bratislava EU meeting”

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Bratislava EU meeting: Merkel says bloc in ‘critical situation’  BBC News | Europe | World Edition The EU is in a “critical situation”, the German chancellor says, as leaders meet to discuss ways to regain trust after the UK’s vote to leave the bloc. Debate: Can the Bratislava summit mend the EU? euro|topics The leaders of the … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “How to protect whistleblowers on the internet…

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Jacob Appelbaum, Tor developer and Wikileaks staffer, resigns amid sex abuse claims Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Appelbaum, whose work has put him in the crosshairs of his own government and foreign states, resigned from the Tor project on Friday, accompanied by a short note from Tor executive director Shari Steele. Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns Amid … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Pirates are coming! Pirate news from Iceland….

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#Iceland April 4, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine RE-ELECTIONS LOOMING CLOSE AS ICELAND HITS A POLITICAL SCANDAL April 5, 2016 · by Stathis Leivaditis IT’S TIME FOR THE PIRATES April 6, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine THE SCHRÖDINGER’S PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND April 6, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine PIRATE PARTY ICELAND POLLING AT 43%, ALMOST A MAJORITY April 7, … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Wikipedia-Mining Algorithm Reveals World’s Most Influential Universities…

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Negotiating the WSIS+10 and the Future of the Internet Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog by Daniel Sepulveda After two and a half years of technical analysis and discussions, six months of deliberations among all stakeholders, and intense negotiations at the United Nations, at three o’clock in the morning on December 12, 2015, the … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Open Access Is a Human Rights Issue

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Open Access Is a Human Rights Issue EFF.org Updates by Elliot Harmon A BBC article has been making the rounds this week about #icanhazpdf, a “secret codeword” that people use to access research papers from limited-access journals. The idea is simple: when researchers—or, for that matter, curious readers—find a reference to an article that they can’t … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Greenwald says “The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst

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The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald (updated below) Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “common data visualization mistakes… “Reddit vs. Trolls…

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How Richard Stallman does his computing  kottke.org by Jason Kottke Richard Stallman, the free software activist and author of some of the world’s most used and useful software, probably uses his computer and the Internet a lot differently than you do. For starters, ethics and privacy concerns trump his need for convenience. EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Pirate Party victory in Iceland… Greek-German summit…

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Pirate Party Becomes Iceland’s Most Popular Political Party  TorrentFreak On January 1, 2006, Rick Falkvinge founded the Swedish and first Pirate Party. The party has survived more than nine turbulent years while provoking heated discussion on copyright reform, privacy and freedom of speech.   Icelandic Pirates soar: citizenship for Snowden?  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The Icelandic Pirate … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Data-Driven Web Survival Guide…”2015: The Year of the Learner…

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Italy Launches Largest Ever Pirate Site Blockade TorrentFreak   Alongside the United Kingdom, Italy is the most aggressive country in the world when it comes to blocking websites on copyright infringement grounds.   Data-Driven Web Survival Guide The Purple Box by Andy Kahl   If we’re going to make it through what’s sometimes described as a data-collection … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Leak Exposes Hollywood’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy…

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Leak Exposes Hollywood’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy  TorrentFreak The Sony Pictures leak has caused major damage to the Hollywood movie studio, but the fallout doesn’t end there. Contained in one of the leaked data batches is a complete overview of the MPAA’s global anti-piracy strategy for the years to come.   Google moves engineers out of Russia  BBC … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Peter Sunde says The Pirate Bay Should Stay Down…North Korea and the Sony hack…

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President Obama writes his first line of Javascript  Mashable! by Stan Schroeder The U.S. now has a “coder-in-chief:” President Barack Obama has written his first line of code Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay Should Stay Down TorrentFreak A few weeks ago Peter Sunde was released from prison where he’d been serving a sentence for his involvement in … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: The Pirate Bay down after servers raided by police in Sweden

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The Pirate Bay offline after police raid in Sweden Mashable! by Stan Schroeder BitTorrent indexing site The Pirate Bay has been offline since Tuesday morning after police in Sweden raided the site’s server room, seizing servers and other equipment.   The Pirate Bay is offline after Swedish police allegedly seize servers You might have noticed that … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: EFF Surveillance Self-Defense; Open Access Week, ISIL Social Media Guide….

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EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense  EFF.org Updates by Jillian York We’re thrilled to announce the relaunch of Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), our guide to defending yourself and your friends from digital surveillance by using encryption tools and developing appropriate privacy and security practices. The site launches today in English, Arabic, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon. The Younger … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: ” Disruptive Technology of Silicon Valley…”The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines…

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    Statement on the Use of Finfisher by Members of the Freedom Online Coalition  EFF.org Updates by Jillian York Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of theFreedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.1 If this … Read more