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- STEAL THIS FILM II in Time Out magazine
from
Time Out London: London April 24th - 30th 2008 Page 165:
The extensive anti-PR campaigns that record and film bigwigs run against themselves by prosecuting down-loaders might make the public aware that they’re not the nicest of souls in the world, but there isn’t nearly enough done to point out how ludicrous their behaviour is. […] - Pirates Pay Better Than YouTube
YouTube announced a couple of days ago they’re expanding their
Partner Programme to Australia, Japan and Ireland. But is this really good news for content producers?
‘Now open in six countries, the
YouTube Partner Program is our way of recognizing the most popular and prolific original content creators in the YouTube community worldwide,’ the announcement […] - STEAL THIS FILM in The Times newspaper
STEAL THIS FILM was mentioned
in The Times Entertainment section yesterday:
every time I download a programme via a site such as uTorrent I am doing something immoral. Right? Not according to Jamie King’s film, Steal This Film II, a history of intellectual copyright, which argues that, without copying, culture cannot develop. Appropriately the film is […] - The Scale of the US Housing Crisis
Discipline is breaking down in the handling of foreclosure procedures in the States. Overwhelmed banks are letting defaulters stay in their houses, reluctant to turf them out and leave the property empty — partly because they don’t want to pay the taxes, and partly because they know the house will be looted.
- Fusion Centres
This report from the Washington Post about fusion centres is interesting. I want to investigate fusion centres in more detail.
Dozens of the organizations known as fusion centers were created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to identify potential threats and improve the way information is shared. The centers use law enforcement analysts and sophisticated […] - “The first truly global financial crisis of the modern world”
BBC News: Speaking at the start of the Progressive Governance conference of centre-left leaders and politicians, Mr Brown said that […] old institutions established in the aftermath of World War II were now unable to cope.
“We now have to reshape our global rules and global institutions for this new era,” he said.
“We are facing […] - Phorm
Three of the UK’s largest ISPs (Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk) have decided to sell private browsing history to an advertising broker. The entire list of every web page visited by a customer gets sent to Phorm (the broker) in real time, so that they can offer ‘targeted advertising’. Naturally the ISP’s are not too […]
- Is America Faking Its Own Banknotes? (2)
Some people (and not just gun toting libertarians and Molotov-slinging anarchists) would say that modern money is already fake — it’s not backed by anything solid or finite, like lumps of gold. It’s
“fiat” money, currency that a government has declared to be legal tender despite the fact that it has no necessary intrinsic value.
Originally, […] - Iceland contagion may spread far and wide
For Iceland, the high-wire act of the last five years may have finally reached its limits. The central bank was forced to raise interest rates to 15pc this week in an emergency move to halt the collapse of krona, which has fallen 18pc since mid-March.
The country’s all-conquering banks - led by Kaupthing, Glitnir, and Landsbanki […] - Germans Fear Meltdown of Financial System
Central bankers are running out of options. They are anxious to avert the nightmare scenario of a financial crisis like the one that rocked Germany in 1931, when the failure of a major Berlin bank prompted a massive run on other banks by a nervous public, which plunged those banks into insolvency. For decades, a […]