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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Henrik Pontén To Become The New National Joke?

April 17, 2009

Henrik Pontén of Antipiratbyrån (The Anti Pirate Agency) is quoted saying the following in SvD: “Naturally this [the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial] is a success for all rights owners and creatives…” This quote makes me think of the one where Ines Uusman said (in 1996) that “the Internet is a fad that will [...]

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Pirate Bay Found Guilty. Are We Now The World’s Most Conservative Nation?

April 17, 2009

Guilty. One year in jail and a 30 000 000 SEK fine. We will all blush looking back at this day. Sweden has now officially shown to the world that we don’t understand the big picture of communication infrastructure and behavior. We have shown that we don’t understand the inevitable future, but only look in [...]

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A Guilty Pirate Bay Verdict Will Make us Look Like Idiots in The History Books

April 17, 2009

In about an hour we will know the verdict in the Pirate Bay-trials. Let’s hope that people are being smart about this. Because a guilty verdict would not be good for anyone. Especially not for art and artists. A guilty verdict would do little to boost sales. I believe we’ll see the opposite result. Darknets [...]

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Checkmate. Spofity Opens Up API To Developers.

April 7, 2009

Finally it happened. Spotify released libspotify, thereby making it possible to develop third party applications to interact with the Spotify platform. I know we’ve all been talking about it since the start, and that it has been a long time ambition, but we were never quite sure if they would make the move or when. [...]

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Think Twice Before Even Dreaming About Using IPRED. Or Associating With Anyone Doing It.

April 5, 2009

We are now starting to see the effects of the Swedish IPRED-law, which states that copyright holders can go after individuals downloading protected content. Apparently, Swedish internet traffic has now dropped by nearly half. And since when is that a good thing? I thought traffic was valuable? I believe that you can never be quite [...]

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Attacking In Group Doesn’t Make You Innocent.
– It Just Makes Things Worse.

April 1, 2009

OMG. Reading this mornings newspaper, I get the same vibe as when I hear about bullying in schoolyards, or when I listen to Philip Zimbardo talking about evil at TED.com – “if we attack in a group, we all get away with it”. Earbooks, Storyside, Piratförlaget, Bonnier Audio, and Norstedts have decided to take advantage [...]

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Viasat Pushing of Against Ipred Towards a Better Positioning

March 31, 2009

I‘ve written quite a bit about the Pirate Bay trials and how the music industry is undermining itself and its own business. As of tomorrow we have a new law in Sweden, the IPRED-law, allowing copyright holders to go after downloading youngsters. Any such attempt is of course entirely in vain. I’ve written about it [...]

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Carrier-Pigeons For Freedom!

March 4, 2009

I took this picture today on my way out to lunch. It requires you to understand Swedish, but if you do, it’s quite funny. .

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Telenor To Become Hero Of Internet Liberals?

March 3, 2009

The mobile telephony operator Telenor are being threatened by IFPI that they’re going to be taken to court if they don’t block The Pirate Bay for their customers. I guess taking TPB themselves to court is one thing (though counter productive), but taking Telenor to court? It will be interesting to see how far IFPI [...]

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I’m NOT a Pirate. I’m a Realist.

March 1, 2009

Just to clarify, there seems to have been some confusion, I’m not on the side of The Pirate Bay, I’m on the side of evolution.

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Is This The New Music Industry?

February 28, 2009

I‘m not so sure record labels have a role anymore though. Artists need production, distribution and marketing. Production is cheap and easy today. Perhaps this “new production” will change the sound in some direction, but just like there is a sound of the 70′s for instance, this will be the sound of today. Distribution will [...]

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Spotsave is an Excellent Display of the Spotify Model Robustness

February 27, 2009

The discussion about Spotsave, an unauthorized program which lets you save Spotify songs to your harddrive, is pretty intense on the net right now. I think it highlights something very important – that Spotify is fairly immune to this type of thing. Here is why: Since Spotify, unlike iTunes Store for instance, contributes REAL VALUE [...]

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Kids Don’t Spend $30000 On CDs.

February 25, 2009

In an account of the Pirate Bay trials by Dagens Nyheter, Peter Althin, Peter Sundes lawyer asks IFPI’s chairman and CEO John Kennedy whether Kennedy really claims that everyone who illegally downloaded a record would have bought it if it wasn’t available at sites like Pirate Bay. Kennedy answers yes to this question. I can’t [...]

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Augmented Intelligence And 3 Other Ways of Saving The World (And The Music Industry) From The Internet

February 23, 2009

A few days after the fact I read this article on Realtid.se. The contents of the article are nothing jaw dropping. The comments on the article however, reflect the fact that so much of this discussion is taking place well outside the realm of relevance. People are talking about whether or not artists should be [...]

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Forget About Pirate Bay. Go After Apple!

February 18, 2009

In the Pirate Bay trials, it seems to be troublesome for the prosecutor to prove that Pirate Bay has made money off of copyrighted material. But since I always try to be optimistic, I have a suggestion for the prosecutor: Go after Apple instead. An iPod Classic retails for $249. It has a capacity of [...]

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