Rasmus Fleischer form the Swedish pro-piracy organization Piratbyrån gave a talk at the Reboot8 conference., he discussed copyright issues and Piratbyrån thoughts and vision.
The Reboot8 conference is “a journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas”.
The Grey Commons
Intro
There has been a lot [...]
The revolution starts in Canada. Canadian musicians are rising up against p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and the prohibition of copying and sharing Music. They’ve started a new group called the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.
“Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates,” they state unequivocally. “Sharing music has been happening for decades.”
A lot of [...]
Michael Geist’s interpretation of a recent study on how downloading affects the music bussiness caused quite some controversy. Geist concluded from the study that filesharing does not hurt the record industry. P2Pnet interviewed Geist, they discuss several p2p related issues and it seems that Geist is a fan of BitTorrent.
Dr Michael Geist has become a [...]
The Big Four record labels are fighting tooth and nail to kill the French decision to make it legal to share music and movies online. MPs, who’ve already voted once on the matter, will debate it again next week and if they confirm the earlier decision, turning it into law, France will become the first [...]
Today BitTorrent Inc. announced that it will be supporting the 20th Annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference and the 13th Annual SXSW Film Conference and Festival.
