Exciting! The Pirate Bay AFK
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miriam_eSimon Klose is making a documentary about the story surrounding the three founders of The Pirate Bay -- not just about how Hollywood, through the US government threatened Sweden with trade sanctions if the Pirate Bay wasn't crushed and its founders imprisoned, but the stories of those three pioneers, Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist, and Anakata, a paranoid cyber libertarian.
So far he's been editing it himself, but in order to do the best result possible with the hundreds of hours of footage he's filmed so far, Simon Klose is appealing to crowd sourcing to get the funds to hire an editing studio and a great editor. You have the amazing chance to contribute through Kickstarter.
This is great news, and gives us an opportunity to help participate in fighting against control of our culture by small numbers of ultra-powerful, corporate bullies. But you only have 19 days left to get on board. Just think, when the doco screens, you can proudly say, "I helped with funding that."
Why should we try to protect file-sharing?
A little thought experiment for you:
You've travelled back in time about 500 hundred years and met Leonardo da Vinci. You've shown him that you come from the future and he is enthusiastically asking you what it is like there. You tell him about flying machines, telecommunications, robots, travel to the Moon and Mars, deep-sea exploration, video cameras, movies, sound recordings, and so on. When you tell him about computers and how they let us multiply knowledge for free he becomes particularly excited. His eyes widen and he gasps "All people can share in our culture and learning regardless of wealth? Humanity has achieved utopia! Wonderful!"
You become a little uncomfortable and embarrassed. "Uh... unfortunately we made it illegal."
So far he's been editing it himself, but in order to do the best result possible with the hundreds of hours of footage he's filmed so far, Simon Klose is appealing to crowd sourcing to get the funds to hire an editing studio and a great editor. You have the amazing chance to contribute through Kickstarter.
This is great news, and gives us an opportunity to help participate in fighting against control of our culture by small numbers of ultra-powerful, corporate bullies. But you only have 19 days left to get on board. Just think, when the doco screens, you can proudly say, "I helped with funding that."
Why should we try to protect file-sharing?
A little thought experiment for you:
You've travelled back in time about 500 hundred years and met Leonardo da Vinci. You've shown him that you come from the future and he is enthusiastically asking you what it is like there. You tell him about flying machines, telecommunications, robots, travel to the Moon and Mars, deep-sea exploration, video cameras, movies, sound recordings, and so on. When you tell him about computers and how they let us multiply knowledge for free he becomes particularly excited. His eyes widen and he gasps "All people can share in our culture and learning regardless of wealth? Humanity has achieved utopia! Wonderful!"
You become a little uncomfortable and embarrassed. "Uh... unfortunately we made it illegal."
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Date: 2010-09-09 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 09:01 am (UTC)What an amazing coup for those who would keep us down: they have managed to convince most of us that we should be kept ignorant.
I did a little reading about Leonardo da Vinci today. He has always been one of my greatest heroes, but I never realised that he was vegetarian and that he was renowned for buying caged birds in order to set them free. I also never knew that it's very likely he was gay. What a cool guy.