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Rasmus Fleischerrasmus [at] piratbyran.org
Palle TorssonPalle torsson [at] artliberated.org
thepiratebay.orgpiratbyran.orgpiratgruppen.orgartliberated.org
2 What we will talk about
Piratbyrån The Pirate BayPiratgruppen.org /Artliberated
The Bahnhof raidThe first of May demonstrationThe new Swedish copyright lawThe Västerås CaseThe Evidence Machine The Grey Zoning Mental Rights ManagementMedia HistoryCompensation systems? Consumer / producer
The Pirate Bay = the international BitTorrent trackerPiratbyrån = ”The Bureau of Piracy”, SwedenPiratgruppen = ”The Piracy Group”, Denmark
* First file-sharer in Swedish court for sharing a movie
1. Convicted to "only" a fine... ...which means that secrecy IP addresses is the rule
in similar cases. Sharing very many movies might mean prison sentences,
and therefore the possibility to reveal the IP addresses... ...but how then to persecute BitTorrent users? 2. Proof?: a confession in combination with screen dumps If anti-piracy organization's screen dumps are valid as
proof, may then any screen dump be given the same value?
The Västerås case & The Evidence Machine
* New Swedish copyright law, July 1st 2005
Criminalization of "downloading" is not "mass-criminalization", as most downloaders are also uploaders
Stop discussing "downloading"; let's talk about file-sharing as a horizontal activity!
* The Grey Zone
Copyright law's definition of "copying" is always arbitraty, purely moral, and based on pre-digital technologies.
Copying is the fact. Copyright is the phantasm.
The copyright industry must obscure the real workings of networked computers,
introducing the artificial distinction between "streaming" and "downloading".
Mental rights management.
Cut word linesCut music lines
Smash the control imagesSmash the control machine.
---William S. Burroughs
* Alternative compensation systems Aim: saving copyright and file-sharing Supporters: Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, EFF, Fairsharing.de, some French parlamentarians... ...and the anti-piracy lobby?
Many unsolvable problems: Who to "compensate"? Record companies? Authors? Bloggers?
How to value different media? Why "punish" all usage of digital media?
* Beyond the consumer/producer dichotomy
Stop talking about "content"! People pay for possibilities to interact and communicate.
…and We do not represent "consumer interests"! Copyright economy = producing the "consumer“/”producer” split
Compensation systems: channeling money to the officially recognized "producers"
Restrictions on technology usage separates "professionals" from the rest
...but so-called "user-generated content" are where the profits for online business is generated, anyway. (Blogs, communities, gaming worlds, photo sharing, chatrooms...)
Leaving the imaginary division behind: it's not about a future utopia.
Rasmus Fleischerrasmus [at] piratbyran.org
Palle Torssonpalle.torsson [at] artliberated.org
thepiratebay.orgpiratbyran.orgpiratgruppen.orgartliberated.org
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