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More On The Beauty of Stealing

May 28, 2009

Dear Chris, You left me a comment on my “Cut, Copy, Steal, But Never Lie”-post about how it is “NEVER okay to steal”. I believe you are missing my point, and since I believe it’s quite an important one I will dedicate this whole post to an answer to your comment. The point is that [...]

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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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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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Not So Hostile Takeover Of Forsman&Bodenfors
(+ Outfit of The Day)

April 2, 2009

This is the first, and perhaps the last time we’ll do an outfit of the day post on here, but today is a special day. Because today, symbolically enough on the day of the Golden Egg Awards, my agency Honesty is moving into new offices. And not just any old shack, but the legendary 6th [...]

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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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