Falkvinge

It's like how the Inuit have 35 words for "snow", or the Swedish have 51 words for "tax evasion". Some cultures have a need for nuances that necessarily gets reflected into the local language, nuances which will be lost when bluntly translating into the one category-level word in English.

It is reasonably common in the voicing part of the acting industry, when a famous name turns you down, that you instead turn to a voice imitator to give a performance that's reminiscent of a number of factors (kind of sounding like this other person, for example).

This way, legally you're in the clear, because you didn't use the voice of X. Not on any occasion did you use the voice of X. You even paid a voicer to make your recordings, and it's their voice.

Morally, it can be - and probably is - a different matter.

Hurra: yet another way for the NSA to exfiltrate data from my keyboard.

Fair enough. In Sweden (my native country), the primary factors for a good credit rating are assets, income, and the lack of mismanaged credit.

I'll support most entities - not only corporations - that put people's rights ahead of government agencies' data cleptocracy.

I'm writing quite a bit about this in the leadership handbook Swarmwise - how being leaderless prevented Occupy WS from achieving long-term goals or direction.

http://falkvinge.net/books/

Carbyne is a quite logical name, considering the -y- vowel (and even the -yne ending) is used to denote triple bonding between carbon atoms in organic chemistry.

Compare ethane - ethyne (single bond - triple bond), for example.

I'd have to agree. But it's not about everybody converging on one project, as implied in the question; it's everybody doing their part to create a huge decentralized mesh - decentralized and uncontrollable.

Most people live in the here and now; if things don't affect their daily lives, it's not worth attention. But we're all intelligent enough to see where things are heading. We're also all intelligent enough to know that we can at least mitigate the effects of expected developments through coding a few tools.

The more people that think of such tools, the better. But that's not enough. Being a bit blunt, ideas don't count for shit on their own. The more people that sit down to code such tools from those ideas, the better.

Shout-out to my activist colleagues down under. Good to see y'all.

Yes.

The idea that "parental controls" are needed is contradictory to the entire philosophy of Open Source and Free Software. Parental controls - or, as it should be called, parental censorship - is a "feature" that treats the user as an ADVERSARY.

It belongs in the exact same category of "features" as mandatory wiretapping on telecom networks and mandatory tracking on cellphones, and other inventions that treat the user as an adversary. It also belongs in the trashcan.

To people who want this to babysit their kids - no, you don't get to abdicate your parenting to a piece of code doing censorship.

How shall the artists get paid?

http://falkvinge.net/2011/01/31/how-shall-the-artists-get-pa...

Cheers, Rick

Sorry if I sounded aggressive in my terse response.

I frequently publish a story when I'm 98% sure - pretty much every single time, the details will fill in as people come to visit and add it to the comments field, frequently enough enriching the story beyond what I first thought. That one time, it didn't, and I'm still somewhat bitter over my misjudgement.

Cheers, Rick

Because a justice system must consistently uphold rights of citizens. Its best-case scenario is not particularly interesting; it is the worst-case scenario that must be good enough, still guaranteeing citizens' rights and due process in every relevant stage.

The case presented here is worse than what I would expect from typical banana republics, showing corruption at every step of the way.

Cheers, Rick

The Pirate Bay is indeed a technical trailblazer. Not necessarily for back-end architecture or user experience, but damn, the site is resilient against anything you throw at it.

Pretty much every Power That Be <tm> has tried to bring the site down, and it still stands.

That's amazing.

Cheers, Rick

Illegitimate - no. It's my site and I can confirm that. I've been working hard on it for quite some time.

Suspicious - well, that depends on exactly what you are suspecting.

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You're thinking of another judge, in the Netherlands. I haven't written in English about this subject before AFAIK.

Of course I am biased, just like any other publication. The principal difference is that I openly declare my bias, and try to provide alternate sources for verification.

Cheers, Rick

This article misses the point entirely.

CloudFlare doesn't shine on single page loads. CloudFlare shines when your site hits Reddit's front page, you have 1000 people online at the same time, and your servers are already pumping 30 megabits per second of data of content to visitors.

Source: I hit Reddit's front page a couple of times a month. Before I used CloudFlare, my servers would die. Now, they idle leisurely at loads 1.0 to 2.0 when that happens.

Cheers, Rick

This.

So many upvotes.

The notion of "selling with restrictions" is a contradiction in terms. If the property is transferred to a new owner, then there can neither legally nor morally be any restrictions placed by the previous owner on how the new owner may use the property.

There are ways to shift custody of objects that would honor such restrictions that you speak of - but they are not a sale, nor are they exchange of property.

Cheers, Rick

You do not buy a license when you buy a DVD. You buy the DVD, period. You buy the good. The physical item. Consumer protection laws are adamant about this.

There is no "limited license" embodied in the good. You buy the physical item and the whole physical item, in all its aspects. Courts have repeatedly rejected the notion that additional terms can be applied after the sale (and if I'm not mistaken, this is part of the first sale doctrine).

Monopolies such as the copyright monopoly are indeed not included in the over-the-counter purchase, nor did I claim they were. I am, however, stating that they limit the property rights to the good you have legally acquired.

I apologize for coming across as aggressive, but I can get frustrated when people are not clear on the concept of property and what you buy over-the-counter as defined by law (as opposed to what other limitations may apply to the property you have legally acquired), and assert things that are plainly false and misleading.

Cheers, Rick

> What this article is describing is the exercise of those rights. Yes, when you purchase a DVD, you are not purchasing the underlying property.

This statement is utterly and completely false. You can examine the consumer protection laws in pretty much any first-world country to see that sale-of-goods laws and first sale doctrine both apply without mercy.

As your argument is based on the quoted premise, which is sadly factually incorrect, I read the rest of your objection to the article as logically failing.

When you buy something over-the-counter, it does become your property, in all its aspects. Any restrictions to your property rights over the object you bought are just that; restrictions of your property rights.

The copyright monopoly is one such restriction of your property rights.

This looks like a different article - namely, "The Analog Letter: It is entirely reasonable to demand that our children inherit the rights of our parents".

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/06/the-analog-letter-its-entire...

I have seen that several have responded already, but for a column-length (i.e. digestable but still long enough to present the case) explanation, this is one of my key and first writeups:

http://torrentfreak.com/do-you-prefer-copyright-or-the-right...

Cheers, Rick

The headline has, as always, an amount of liberty in summarizing the article to a few words.

The person responsible for inserting the text into the report, who is a Member of the European Parliament, and therefore in some sense representing this particular piece of text, names WikiLeaks and the donation blockade specifically.

Cheers, Rick

(also, I am no longer the party leader of the PPSE; I led the party through its first five years and the election where we put our first people in the Europarl. Today, my focus is international)

Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage.

So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine - where something will come out the other end.

Cheers, Rick

The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.

Hurray. This is the 1950 dystopics with cameras in our homes all over again.

(You'll carefully note that rooting a computer includes getting access to its peripherals - including webcam and microphone.)

http://falkvinge.net/2012/08/28/what-came-true-of-dystopic-v...