Hallo,
breaking up the monster thread here are some texts from Mute magazine
regarding copyright and piracy and open source and why it's not as
easy b/w as some may think:
Copy That Floppy!
The Pirate Bay, a tracker website based in Sweden, has become the most
popular BitTorrent site in the world and now receives more daily hits
than CNN. The Pirat Byran (Pirate Association) is its sister
organisation, and promotes information piracy and its culture through
discussions, media advocacy and legal advice. Mute talked to Palle
Torsson of Pirat Byran about filesharing culture in Sweden and the
'grey commons
http://www.metamute.org/en/node/5599
Change of the Century: Free Software and the Positive Possibility
The much touted 'freedoms' of FLOSS are coming under increasing
scrutiny as they are applied to contexts beyond their original
formation. Is 'freedom as in speech' enough or are there other
freedoms upon which the construction of the commons depends' Martin
Hardie has worked extensively on an archeology of how the GNU/Linux
operating system was developed, exposing the myths that are at its
foundation. Here, he asks how the licensing of FLOSS operates within
the constitution of Empire and locates in the new forms of 'producing
in common' the means to reverse the proliferation of alternative law
and instead affirm a true alternative to law.
http://www.metamute.org/en/node/7053
Charters of Liberty in Black Face and White Face: Race, Slavery and
the Commons
The Magna Carta is renowned as the 'Charter of Liberty' which inspired
modern constitutional safeguards against the power of the State. But
its smaller companion, the Charter of the Forest, enshrining the
customary rights of the commoners to land and resources, has been
overlooked. Cutting between the political struggles of the early 1970s
and the 1720s, Peter Linebaugh shows how the struggle against
enclosures in the woods of England is inextricably linked with the
struggle against slavery in the Atlantic
http://www.metamute.org/en/node/5602
No further comments, have fun,
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