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  • 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture

    This is a guest post by Public Knowledge Vice President Michael Weinberg — Mashups are one of the great art forms of our time.  Although remixes, mashups, sampling, and collage predate the internet by decades (if not centuries), easy, accessible digital tools have allowed anyone to remix videos, music, and photographs into their own original [...]

  • SearchFreak’s Top 12 File-Sharing & Copyright Events of 2012

    This is a guest article from SearchFreak, an Internet engineer and chief executive of an Internet business that provides services to millions of users. This past year has been most eventful. You can say many things about the sharing world, but you can’t say life is boring here. And, as our calendar year is close [...]

  • Sweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata

    It’s almost two weeks since Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia but despite dozens of news headlines and stories published around the world, not one has been able to explain exactly what is happening to him and what his ultimate fate might be. A Flattr programmer and close friend of Gottfrid’s from Cambodia tried to find out by visiting the country’s counter terrorist department and holding face to face meetings with Swedish ambassador Anne Höglund. Here is his story.

  • eMule: A Decade of File-Sharing Innovations

    On May 13th, 2002 a new filesharing client called eMule entered into our world of sharing. Ten years later we’d like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back at some major technical achievements of filesharing applications since then and what might come in the years ahead. With further innovation, even the mighty BitTorrent can be improved to become impossible to shut down.

  • Dan Bull & Pirate Bay Attack the Music Charts With “Sharing Is Caring”

    This week, with support from a Promo Bay campaign on The Pirate Bay, UK rap artist Dan Bull is aiming to send a message to the mainstream entertainment industry. With the release of a brand new track called “Sharing is Caring”, Dan will attempt to break into the UK and international singles charts without the backing of a label and show that with the help of a free Internet and BitTorrent, there is another way.

  • The History of File-Sharing

    Last century filesharing was a fringe hobby, only for geeks who were lucky enough to own a computer that could dial into the World Wide Web. How different is that today, where filesharing has become daily routine for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In just a few years swapping files has become mainstream. Time to take a step back and see how it all came about.

  • The Moral Battle Between Pirates and Copyright Lobbyists

    In a recent interview, Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler raises some serious concerns surrounding the MegaUpload bust. One question raised by the professor, which may not have been entertained by many prior to the wide public opposition to SOPA, is of whether the lobbyist companies currently reaping the benefits of increasingly harsher copyright enforcement confer a [...]

  • American Chamber of Commerce Threatens Estonia’s Open Internet

    This is a guest post from Otto de Voogd, digital freedom fighter, a member of the non-profit Estonian Internet Community and a volunteer Mozilla contributor. Thousands of sites, led by Reddit and Wikipedia, staged a successful blackout against SOPA and PIPA last week. But, it would be a mistake to think that the threat against [...]

  • Hurt Locker Makers Subpoena ISPs for Non-Defendants

    This is a guest post by BitTorrent defense lawyer Blair Chintella. More news on the case here. — I have been practicing in the area of copyright infringement and specializing in bittorrent cases essentially since they started in the District of Columbia.  I wanted to write this short anecdote to raise awareness to an important [...]

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