internet liberty

The Most Dangerous Politician in The United States?

June 22, 2009

One of the most dangerous politicians in the United States – that’s what CNET calls Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden. What they are talking about is Biden’s relentless attacks on internet liberty, and the threat that he thereby poses to the evolution of technology. Now that the dust has settled and we have sobered up [...]

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Welcome to IPREDIA – Campaign of The Year?

May 28, 2009

A very intelligent person figured out that it’s hard to use laws like IPRED to attack file sharers if you can’t prove that the person responsible for the internet connection is the person responsible for, say, the shared MP3. The same intelligent person thus opened up her WIFI-base station for anyone to use. And she [...]

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Naked Blogging From The Boat: Bloggers Killed The Journalism Star?

May 25, 2009

Im out in the sailboat reading a couple of newspapers from yesterday and the day before. A couple of different articles caught my eye. One of them is by Thomas E Patterson, media researcher at Harvard university. In the article, he talks about the future of the newspapers, or rather the production of news in [...]

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Record Labels are Violating the Rights of Artists

May 7, 2009

At the Esomar WM3 Conference the other day, I got a question about copyright: “But what about the rights of the artists? Do they not have the right to make money off of their work?” My answer was that the business model needs to change in a way so that digitally replicable products are considered [...]

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It’s a War Between Conservatives And Innovators

April 18, 2009

I encourage everyone to cut out and frame today’s editorial in DN. It’s one of the strangest editorials I have read in a newspaper of a democratic country, and it will probably be worth money some day. Since it was an editorial, I actually considered cancelling my subscription. But then I read this article, which [...]

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