nettime This is not Amsterdam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301753.html?nav=hcmodule Et voila: *Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes* By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, March 24, 2007; A10 PARIS, March 23 -- Paris is for lovers -- lovers of food and art and wine, lovers of the romantic sort and, starting this summer, lovers of bicycles. On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered throughout the city, an ambitious program to cut traffic, reduce pollution, improve parking and enhance the city's image as a greener, quieter, more relaxed place. By the end of the year, organizers and city officials say, there should be 20,600 bikes at 1,450 stations -- or about one station every 250 yards across the entire city. Based on experience elsewhere -- particularly in Lyon, France's http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/france.html?nav=el third-largest city, which launched a similar system two years ago -- regular users of the bikes will ride them almost for free. It has completely transformed the landscape of Lyon -- everywhere you see people on the bikes, said Jean-Louis Touraine, the city's deputy mayor. The program was meant not just to modify the equilibrium between the modes of transportation and reduce air pollution, but also to modify the image of the city and to have a city where humans occupy a larger space. The Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delano?, has the same aim, said his aide, Jean-Luc Dumesnil: We think it could change Paris's image -- make it quieter, less polluted, with a nicer atmosphere, a better way of life. But there is a practical side, too, Dumesnil said. A recent study analyzed different trips in the city with a car, bike, taxi and walking, and the bikes were always the fastest. The Lyon rental bikes, with their distinctive silver frame, red rear-wheel guard, handlebar basket and bell, can also be among the cheapest ways to travel, because the first half-hour is free, and most trips are shorter than that. It's faster than the bus or metro, it's good exercise, and it's almost free, said Vianney Paquet, 19, who is studying law in Lyon. Paquet said that he uses the rental bikes four or five times a day and pays 10 euros (about $13) a year, half for an annual membership fee and half for rental credit that he never actually spends because his rides typically last just a few minutes. Anthonin Darbon, director of Cyclocity, which operates Lyon's program and won the contract to start up and run the one in Paris, said 95 percent of the roughly 20,000 daily bike rentals in Lyon are free because of their length. Cyclocity is a subsidiary of outdoor advertising behemoth JCDecaux, which runs much smaller bike businesses in Brussels, Vienna and the Spanish cities of Cordoba and Girona. London, Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne reportedly are considering similar rental programs. The Cyclocity concept evolved from utopian bike-sharing ideas that were tried in Europe in the 1960s and '70s, usually modeled on Amsterdam's famous white bicycle plan, in which idealistic hippies repaired scores of bicycles, painted them white, and left them on the streets for anyone to use for free. But in the end, the bikes were stolen and became too beat-up to ride. A number of U.S. cities, including Portland, Ore., have also experimented with community-use bicycle programs. JCDecaux experimented with designs and developed a sturdier, less vandal-prone bike, along with a rental system to discourage theft: Each rider must leave a credit card or refundable deposit of about $195, along with personal information. In Lyon, about 10 percent of the bikes are stolen each year, but many are later recovered, Darbon said. And to encourage people to return bikes quickly, rental rates rise the longer the bikes are out. In Paris, for instance, renting a bike will be free for the first 30 minutes, $1.30 for the next 30 minutes, $2.60 for the third half-hour, and $5.20 for the fourth half-hour of use and every 30 minutes after that. That makes the cost of a two-hour rental about $9.10. Membership fees in Paris will be steeper than in Lyon, from $1.30 for one day to about $38 for a year. The Paris deal will bring the world's biggest bicycle fleet to the City of Light in a complex, 10-year public-private partnership. JCDecaux will provide all of the bikes (at a cost of about $1,300 apiece) and build the pickup/drop-off stations. Each will have 15 to 40 high-tech racks connected to a centralized computer that can monitor each bike's condition and location. Customers can buy a prepaid card or use a credit card at a computerized console to release a bike. The company will pay start-up costs of about $115 million and employ the equivalent of about 285 people full time to operate the system and
Re: nettime Poetic Terrorism and Guerrilla Art in the 21st
Jane, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Columbian born painter Fernando Botero exhibited works in California that depict the Abu Ghriab prison and suspected abuse to prison inmates. His works are bold and courageous, and depict the artist disgust in US policy regarding prison inmates. I, like everyone else, was shocked by the barbarity, especially because the United States is supposed to be this model of compassion. His goal is to make people remember the human tragedies sot hat no one will forget the unjust action of the US soldiers to Abu Ghraib's prisoners. His pictures look to shake people to disturb them, to make them think, and hopefully make them act. We have artist that are working with portraying the victims and the perpetrators of terrorism on both sides of the fence. Thanks for mentioning him. He is not a favourite of the abstract expressionists and somewhere art critique becomes kitsch. But you could have added infos on the sponsors of abstract expressionism in the state department. Marcel Duchamps may be nice, he may be funny, but such programs are limited and fun may become ignorance. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Josh Wolf, a fractured skull and a vandalised police car
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601601.html Voila, as a reading help: Journalist's 169-Day Jail Stay Sets U.S. Record SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 -- A freelance videographer, jailed for refusing to turn over footage of a demonstration to federal investigators, became the longest-incarcerated journalist in U.S. history Tuesday. Josh Wolf, 24, has spent 169 days in a federal prison after declining a federal subpoena for unaired videotape he shot of a chaotic July 2005 protest in San Francisco against the Group of Eight summit in Scotland. A police officer suffered a fractured skull and a police car was vandalized during the melee. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that reporters are not entitled to withhold confidential sources or unpublished material in a grand jury investigation or criminal trial. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Women and multiculturalism
Hi, trying to figure out something on women, multiculturalism and international relations, what international law can do. Women and multiculturalism seems to be women against fundamentalism, not just in western countries, the western modern lifestyle against an archaic lifestyle. Honor killings etc. But I dont want to see it from a western point of view. For me it is about poverty and participation. Life in Afghan villages, selling kids, brides, to rich neighbors as one case, women and football in Iran as the other. There are two ILO programs, women at the workplace and the women entrepreneur. I have the idea that it is a slow process, to go with tanks into Afghan villages is useless, we have to be patient. Women and football seems to be a good idea by the Iranian president. As spectator in Iran, but see also the Palestine women football team. Poverty and participation, what have I overlooked? H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Peace offer snubbed as Nettime Brouhaha approaches
Danny Butt wrote: why aren't they talking about women in Iraq or Afghanistan or North Korea. Good idea, women in Afghanistan and money. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime The Creative Common Misunderstanding
Florian, Florian Cramer wrote: Kurt Schwitters was not sued for collaging the logo of German Commerzbank into his Merz painting which in turn yielded his Merz art. Neither did Andy Warhol receive injunctions for using Coca Cola's and Campbell's trademarks. As long as these symbols remained inside the art world, they did not raise corporate eyebrows. I thought a little bit about this and I think the only valid argument is: is it good art or not? The Schwitters and Warhol pieces are. Both had something different in mind, much more than copyright, something new, and they succeded artistically. Sampling is just another limit of copyright, like privat copies. The next summer hit with a certain Michael Jackson sample or whatever, is it good, is it really something new, like the house, that the thief of stones has built, something valuable, and should Michael Jackson get some money too? CC etc are just more burocracy for things, that are no problem at all for ordinary people, just what the industry needs, I dont care at all about it. The copyright of Schwitters and Warhol is something different. Tolle Sache, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2849462995031279648 Urheberrecht is prima, appropriation of reality, that should be artists first concern. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Torture, Torture, Torture!!!
Bla, bla, bla!!! The world is laughing at America, not because you torture, have fun, but because you started those wars. Torture is the most boring detail. H. Paul D. Miller wrote: This is a cross post of an mini essay by Naeem Mohaiemen. read on! Paul State Of Exception, After The Torture Vote - Naeem Mohaiemen About culture's re-engagement with the war on something, Martin Amis recently said: As Norman Mailer said when 9/11 happened, the temptation to charge ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Steve Cisler in search for ISEA 2006 blogs
The interesting question today is how the industry can manage to act so illegal as early Napster users, Google and books etc, not to mention googles usenet archive. Who likes winmodems? Californian ideology, Joe Sixpack and Bill Gates are the same.. H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [by way of Geert Lovink [EMAIL PROTECTED]] With some delay I'm posting a report from the big art/technology conference here in San Jose. I was involved with a working group on piracy. Other reports will follow: http://place.typepad.com/digitalcommons/ Steve # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime The probable end of Sealand
The idea of Sealand was to be a state of its own, to have an own jurisdiction, own laws. A data heaven implies own internet laws and when not even the servers are in Sealand... Nice case? H. syk0 wrote: What is your axe to grind with these people? An airconditioner failed and a generator fire started. I know people who have servers there and they are not in London. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime nettime as idea
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Florian Cramer?
I think we both once met in real live as well, is organising real life events
anybodys property?
Nettime as a label,
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nettime Wartapes
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/movies/02tape.html?8dpc has an exerpt, that reminds very much to a computergame, doom or whatever, and the story of a former patriot, that does not want to return to Iraq, is derb trivial, to say it in German. Is this trip really necessary? To paraphrase Frank Zappa. I still prefer http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=doc+stukey . Much more interesting person, much more interesting cases. And fiction to reality anyway, see for example http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-290712954623258055 Women and war, H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Paris Burning ...revisited
Ayhan, Arlettes theory of the riots is not a global one, like Huntingtons idiotic squaremeters per religion, it is not about two different cultures like christianity and Islam, but about the relations of the French state and the Muslims. The state dictated a certain dress code some time ago, certain fundamentalist muslim clothing was no longer allowed. She thinks about the effect of the separation of state and church. She asks why only the Muslim community was rioting and other minorities are speacefull. And she has the example of Marseille. Marseille was the only town in France - with a long tradition of Arabs, well, it has a harbour etc, at the Mediterranian Sea -, that had some cooperation of the town governement with the Mullahs and there were - more or less - no riots at all. Best, H. Ayhan Aytes wrote: It is relieving to see the discussion of football fanaticism entered into the issue of European identity however it is unfortunate that the question is still being asked via the traditional channel of the other. The way it is tied to French riots is another clue which demonstrates the deliberations about Huntington thesis is already consumed in its full potential. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Pirates and Hollywood
Alan Sondheim has a great google earth screenshot thing of the famous letters somewhere on some hills in California. It is at mpegurl.blog.de , the beuys is still missing, well what is a big vendors licence (BVL)? And what is SMS of Mobile Multimedia? Do people really use their mobile phone cameras for movies? news.bbc.co.uk says yes! Anyway, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung had a New York Times supplement on Hollywood vs. the Online Pirates, selected articles, on 05. 09., and there is the central misunderstanding again on page 1. A Mr Jackson is quoted, and this remark reminded to a discussion I had with Stephan Sp. of Berliner Zeitung fame on Sebastians struggle with Reemtsma on some obscure Adorno Text: No studio is going to finance a film if the point is reached where their possible profitsmargin goes straight into criminals' pockets There are no such pockets, well, not in piratecinema.org, and the only new film that was ever screened there was the premiere of some message movie, where is was obviously ok, but in other cases it may be a problem. Maybe the Weinerei Economics could help, first class restaurants in Berlin with cooks, that work like DJs, where you pay what you think is appropriate. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Just do it! - Intellectual theft as a curatorial
Dont understand you, John and Inke are more or less saying the same. Ignore those Lessig etc phantasies and do what you want. As far as you are an artist etc. Copyright, I like it, is another level.. Linz is another country and a catalogue in a state run institution is something else anyway. H. On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, sascha brossmann wrote: on 7/8/05 1:05 AM, John Young wrote: [would-be-revolutionary unreflected religious crap deleted] you're nothing but a cocky loudmouthed pratt, john. and it's an utter ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Bush administration to keep control of internet's central com...
Voila: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1519539,00.html Bush administration to keep control of internet's central computers Gary Younge in New York and agencies Saturday July 2, 2005 The Guardian The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move likely to prompt global opposition, it was claimed yesterday. The US had pledged to turn control of the 13 computers known as root servers - which inform web browsers and email programs how to direct internet traffic - over to a private, international body. But on Thursday the US reversed its position, announcing that it will maintain control of the computers because of growing security threats and the increased reliance on the internet for global communications. A Japanese government official yesterday criticised the move, claiming it will lend momentum to the debate about who controls the information flow online. When the internet is being increasingly utilised for private use, by business and so forth, there is a societal debate about whether it's befitting to have one country maintaining checks on that ... It's likely to fuel that debate, said Masahiko Fujimoto, of the ministry of internal affairs and communications' data communications division. The computers serve as master directories that contain government-approved lists of the roughly 260 suffices used, such as .com or .co.uk. Anyone who uses the web interacts with them every day. But a policy decision by the US could, at a stroke, make all sites ending in a certain suffix unreachable. Despite many doomsday scenarios, the most recent US decision will have little if any immediate effect on internet users, and given the internet's anarchic nature it may simply represent a desire to assert state control even when it is not possible to do so. Claudia Bernett, 32, a digital design analyst in New York, said: Scary as it seems, because of the nature of the internet, I think they'll be hardpressed to create a coherent system that is capable of the kind of monitoring they hope for ... Eventually, the people participating in the system will find the technological means to evade the watchful eye. Experts say that in the worst-case scenario, countries that refused to accept US control of the main computers could establish their own separate domain name system, with addresses in some places that others would not be able to reach, making the world wide web give way to discrete, regional web domains. Mr Fujimoto said that is also unlikely because of its complexity, but the US decision will raise serious concerns that will not be assuaged easily. The announcement comes just weeks before a UN panel is set to release a report on internet governance. Some nations want international oversight of the issue but historically the US has maintained the role because it was such a key player in the early years of the internet's development. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime new europe, old europe [pocock, joe, geer, elloi]
To start with a constitution without any european public, that is more than a french or dutch (the germans were not even asked, why not, because they cannot vote?..), was ridicule. Maybe it was allready ridicule to start something that would need a constitution with the EU, maybe there should be a second independent body and the relation of the two bodies should be governed by politics and not by law. A constitution is something universal, but the European Economic Community, now called the EU, is completely different, a set of limited competences to enforce certain rules of free trade. This afternoon I was reading cases, one of them is Irish Souvernirs. Irish Souvenirs, that are made in Belgium or whereever, were not allowed to have a foreign sign on them. Shure, this foreign sign, to label fake souvenirs, is an obscacle to free trade, and what is the difference between a souvenir made 200 miles away from a souvenir made 800 miles away, but there is a difference. The EU is forcing us into a world where such things dont matter anymore. Well, Schiller or Yeats and Mickey Mouse, this is all printed paper.. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime new europe, old europe [pocock, joe, geer, elloi]
Hi, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nettime French vote for a citizen's Europe Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:53:06 +0200 ... We started a real debate on what we want Europe to really be, where the sovereignty of the people finds true expression, able to withstand the Wow, of what people are you talking? ;-) The french, the dutch, the europeans? bludgeoning of the lobbies in Brussels, the permeabilty of the Commission to corporate greed. For example, the manner in which the European Parliament's firm NO to software patents is being overturned by the Commission, teleguided by Microsoft, demonstrates that the Good example, look at the details (posted here some days ago): if you dont say no, you say yesthe same method was used by the german governement when they halfimplemented the (not SO extremly bad) EU directiv on copyprotection.. Parliament, which under the constitution will not be able to initiate legislation, remains a semi-puppet organisation. I must confess that I am rather happy with THIS! My governement has still more democratic legitimation than any european body today. What sux must is not the lack of democracy of Brussels, but that they even dont try to get one. They do what they want and this has finaly reached some kind of limit, maybe or hopefully. To start with a constitution without any european public, that is more than a french or dutch (the germans were not even asked, why not, because they cannot vote?..), was ridicule. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Money and control
This is not about currencies, but, again, about copyright. Maybe pure capitalism: What sux most about Disney etc (pars pro toto), is that they identify control and money. They claim damages, money, that nobody would have spent. We shouldnt make the same mistake. Control is ok, GNU etc, as far as money making is concerned. Nobody makes money out of his files (with maybe exceptions, but are there any direct profits form P2P or whatever?). Disney should be happy with getting money, that somebody else made with their stuff, as far as there is an unfair enrichment. And, see Sony vs Universal etc (Betamax): de minima non curat. H. - End forwarded message - # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime arrogance or not and a modefication
create some special authority for such things? Chaos is nice, but limited. Some central random depository for problems that everybody can read to improve his own judgements, something like that, maybe wiki, maybe simple. But general sensibility for the common thing is something else. Ask google for firefox mime. Maybe I am biased, but I think the freedom of users in MIME things is crucial for the free development of the net. Insofar IMHO firefox is less community, but basically just better ecommerce. The best browser insofar, a browser is a browser is a browser, is still Netscape, not to mention lynx: You cannot only associate in an open transparent way whatever programm with whatever MIME type (see ~./mailcap, the streaming wars, xine vs mplayer etc, Real vs Apple etc anyway), but also decide, which extension the file of that MIME type will have in the browsers cache. For braindead players, that come with hardcoded extensions, see VLCs bla.m3u and bla.pls etc, but see also, for example, mplayers mplayer playlist and xine -P (allthough xine may be outdated today). Mozilla is buggy insofar, extension in the MIME types menu just decide which extension the file will have on the desktop. mailcap and mime.types, this is some basic knowledge! ;-) H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime arrogance or not and a suggestion
Well, braindead or not, maybe there should be a central bug system for computer related system bugs (Wau Holland). There are many vendors, open source or not, IANA etc cannot do it. RFCs etc are fine, but not everything. It may not be perfect, but like in the case of the pope, the attitude in the common interest is better than nothing. And why not create some special authority for such things? Chaos is nice, but limited. H. On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, nettime's_flame_warrior wrote: The registration is not so important, those who have developped RTSP had better things to do than to think about the practical side, it is, as far as it used at all, Broadcaster etc, just common, common like audio/x-mpegurl and m3u. IANA is just a registrar, nobody cares about such things, Linuxers (and everybody else) must think about such things themselves. ... But you should file a bug report anyway. At least the OpenOffice project *has* a public bug tracking system. (Try that with a ... I think it is not enough to do the OpenOffice bug thing or wrap bla.sdps in PHP, the spirit is allready out of the bottle sotosay, no idea how this application/vnd.staroffice.impress got into Apaches mime.types file. Maybe something like audio/mpegurl, which isnt at IANA as well, that some Linux distro installed on millions of servers. Debian? ;-) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Ecommerce and DRM (Apple)
Apple has some client side DRM in their iPod supermegamusicstore, that is neither DRM in the sense of WIPO and the DMCA etc, see http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/wipodmcaetc.pdf , nor effectiv. But their strategy is different; they dont care about kids, who might crack their system, they want to make parents pay that their kids stay legal, see www.apple.com. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime The braindead arrogance of Linux
Sometimes, I think Linuxers can be braindead stupid arrogant in a very special quasi religious way. Or in the way of doctors that sell dubios essences on wild west markets in the movies. Open Source and post sale marketing, isnt it great to have a community? Sometimes, I think Linuxers can be braindead stupid arrogant in a very special quasi religious way. Or in the way of doctors that sell dubios essences on wild west markets in the movies. Open Source and post sale marketing, isnt it great to have a community? The extension sdp is not registered at IANA, but is common for sdp files. Application/sdp is the MIME type. Such sdp files are important in Apples Quicktime Broadcaster, for example, you can export the sdp file manualy, http://bla/bla.sdps and the MIME type application/sdp are handy for One Click multicasting in the LAN or unicasting to one certain other machine worldwide, seminar from NYC etc, not to mention sdp files in Voip or as a vendor and platform independent metafile anyway. But SUN claims sdp for Staroffice! Ask your local Apache, for example http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/weekend.sdp , it comes as some selfproclaimed application/vnd.stardevision.impress, some open source Powerpoint file. Well, Openoffice is great, sotosay Word on Linux and FreeBSD etc, you can export PDF files, but why did nobody care about the net? H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime EMI still sucks!
Where is the problem? I think local languages are fine, there are millions of dying languages, even the differences between people on the balkans are ok, civilisation, that the STATE (or whatever chief) allows killing, butchering, expulsions, is something COMPLETELY different. H. On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ivo Skoric wrote: One would think they would learn something from their debacle with Sex Pistols almost 30 years ago. I this scandalous story they did not allow a Hungarian Roma Hip-Hop band Fekete Vonat (Black Train) to use their own (Roma) language in their lyrics. An international record company acting as an agent of local bigotry?! http://www.shift.jp.org/world/048/budapest.shtml ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Re: [MARCEL-members] Re: Internet2:
Hi, broadcast flag, FCC, refridgerators and the community: At 02:23 10.03.2005, Philip Galanter wrote: So I hope it won't be too disappointing if I don't respond to your second post in a point by point manner. It seems to me that most of the concern there is really more about the MPAA and the broadcast flag than Internet2. Internet2 is indeed talking to the MPAA, but they are talking to literally hundreds of organizations and interest groups. Some of those groups hold opposing views and differing visions of the future. It is in everyone's interest that Internet2 provide a forum for as broad a discussion of advanced networks as possible. I remember a quote from a federal judge saying that the FCC has no power to regulate the internet insofar, like they have no power to regulate refridgerators. Are there any news in this case, has it allready been decided? Is there any real danger now, that we could get instead or whatever some sort of de facto regulation (the flag or equivalents in architecture) by the community? As long as we have universal computers..., but the network may be something different? Those, who pay for the thing may be free to design it however they want? Is it just a money making machine or is it some space for everybody and everybody is equal? Well, there will be new territories anyway, H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Working on article about the need for a
Mark, At 16:28 10.01.2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opinions can no longer be manipulated; people simply believe whatever the believe in and they are likely to act on these beliefs. And then they get informations or what? I dont think the internet has allready changed a lot and medias are not the main problem. The relevant facts are all open, see the situation in Israel for example, well, the details etc of the expulsion of the palestinensians out of their old villages may not be well known, but this doesn change much. The biggest problem is not the media, whatever it is, or taboos, see Godards Ici et aileurs insofar, but that many if not most people dont want an own opinion. The germans in the Nazi state are nothing special, allthough this case is special anyway, there was no free press. People dont want to think themselves. They dont care about other people, other people in other countries are not relevant for them anyway. I saw some blogs on the situation in Iraq, btw, sort of naiv, the Tigris water project etc, maybe more historic knowledge is necessary. It is more important than psychology. And what is democracy? H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime non-commercial? digest [stalder, geer]
How do you define commercial? This has become my favorite thing to ask at CC events, and I have yet to receive a straight-forward reply. Felix, why? Where are the problems? Commercial is something like an action, that is carried out in a commercial entity. The animus lucri faciendi is essential, to become rich or whatever. And we should make a difference between direct and indirect commercial activities. A direct commercial activitty would be Microsoft seeling Windows XP whatever, an indirect commercial activity would be IBM selling servers with Linux installed. The big problem still seems to be to understand that copyright is a good thing. GPL etc are an excercise of copyright, the copyright is still there. Other ideas like giving away to the public domain, that is possible in germany now too, thanks to the revolutionary work of MPI etc, just makes life easier for big vendors. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime ITU Proposal to Change IP Address Distribution meet
Hi, On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, geert quoted: Some of that money will be spent on increased security, and although ICANN is not setting itself up as a major funding source, it is planning to develop a special fund for research into network security. We don't see ourselves as a major funder of international research, but as an enthusiastic endorser of international initiatives, Dr Twomey said. This is interesting. An activ role! More than just plain registration what others do. Well, security sounds like war against terrorism and may be just a technical issue. Anyway the Internet is there, a new continent, just a new form of colonialism? The old californian ideology? See what Weibel had to say: http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/weibelthestupidcowboy.mp3 On the other hand, why the UN? Why ITU? It doesnt make a big difference. Only states are members of the UN and it may be less pure technical, but what should be changed? The content is more or less all private, subsidies for content? For which? For the network, making colonialism more easy? JLG has said it allready, forgetting the factory, this is what the media are used for, all images have their place, this is less a problem of the content producers but of the audience. Right? http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/ici.html H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Microsoft, Apples iPod etc...
Well, expanding the topic: Speaking about Microsoft lack of understanding of other culture than their own, Apple seems to have some corporate culture as well. Yesterday I took an Apple iPod leaflet in the Gravis shop and there on the last page, I find the sentense: Raubkopien sind illegal!. Something like piracy is illegal. There was a lot of dicussion about the word piracy at 4WIPO see Jamie Love at www.eff.org, but it is simply not true. An extreme case is Canadas http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/T-292-04.pdf , but we have fair use also in the USA, where just some forms of piracy are illegal, not copying CDs amongst friends. Copying your friends CDs onto your iPod is LEGAL, period! Well, the RIAA is so powerfull, it sits in Apples board of directors, this is what people say about Al Gore, that slogans like Buying used CDs is illegal are possible. Many people believe it! In the famous SONY aka Betamax case, Hollywood sued SONY for selling videorecorders to get a part of the profit (not to prevent the sale of the machines). Maybe Apple just wants to keep it. But such things are ugly. Apple is different, different from what? H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime EU sponsors pro-DRM PR
Vielen Dank. On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Felix Stalder wrote: Apparently, the Commission believes there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the idea, it only needs some better public relations. The first few It was extremely interesting to see websites in Canada, that has not yet implemented the WIPO treaties yet. They had more time to think and there is a stronger position than usual in the sense of Save copyright, fight DRM. But I dont know anything of the mainstream there. The current situation is clear, the dear and noble judge has decided, see http://intra.b.lab.net/~uzs106/bla/T-292-04.pdf Well, there was never much Lobby in Brussels pro consumers. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Fear Incorporated
Hi, On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Randall M. Packer wrote: Fear Incorporated November 24, 2004 How can we win the war on terror? Isn't terror an indelible part of the human condition? Does anyone really think it can be eliminated? The Bush Maybe I shouldnt think about this from Europe, but as I just saw an annouce with a similar headline: The question is stupid, the second and third sentense is even more stupid. Yes, there is terror, it is just a medium of power, nothing more. It is not worse than atomic bombs or tanks, air fighters, smart bombs, whatever. There is only one difference, it is targetting civilians more than military targets. But was the airplane, that flew into the pentagon less terror than the on that flew into the skyscapper in NYC? Well, yes, the less civil casualties, the better the war, but what counts most, in the sense of the question, is what people are fighting for. From here, I think it is unfair to speak only of the medium. It is the message that counts, and the message is more than terror. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime WSJ: Can Copyright Be Saved?
Carl, you snipped away the part on the price. On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Carl Guderian wrote: Books present more of a problem, but maybe Homeland Security, during Bush's second term of course, can hire firemen like in Fahrenheit 451. Books only cause trouble and take up way too much space anyway. They're only holding us back. Thats why we should hate DRM. There is a long quote by Axel Horn in http://intra.b.lab.net/~uzs106/bla/wipodmcaetc.doc (in german) that describes exactly those dangers. But on the other hand, lets be realistic, a movie is a movie, we see it just once in the Cinema, we dont copy it, we just watch it. And when people are so stupid to prefer their home video over real cinema - many do, not only readers of the Bild Zeitung - and the price is ok? It is just one option of many, the future is open, maybe the price of the movie is a bad creterium, but I dont know better one yet, best, H. Just saw Carls remarks, DRM is allways a topic Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Well, to correct myself, things are complicated ;-) As much as I hate DRM, yesterday, I saw something in the german Bild Zeitung, well, thats what many people read, an interesting piece of shit or literature, something to read, food for the eyes, not really a newspaper, something else, and they announced a pay per view solution of cinema, developped by german telecom. Why not? I asked myself. There is no privat copying possible, but if you go into a cinema, you would not copy the movie too. You have no right to do so too. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime WSJ: Can Copyright Be Saved?
Well, to correct myself, things are complicated ;-) As much as I hate DRM, yesterday, I saw something in the german Bild Zeitung, well, thats what many people read, an interesting piece of shit or literature, something to read, food for the eyes, not really a newspaper, something else, and they announced a pay per view solution of cinema, developped by german telecom. Why not? I asked myself. There is no privat copying possible, but if you go into a cinema, you would not copy the movie too. You have no right to do so too. The DRM problem has many sides, maybe the price is something that solves things. DVDs should be copyed, well, thats a thing, a truc, like a record, but it is more expensiv than pay per view. H. Copyright nd DRM are two completely different things anyway. Copyright is something human, a social something, DRM is technic. Copyright has exeptions and an end, DRM not. DRM kills copyright as a social thing, DRM is just tyranny. The main point is: You cannot obey the law if you cant break it, if you cant break it, thats DRM, the law just disappears. It is a strange optic to say the digital times kill copyright. They have made copying just easier. A lot of people used Napster etc, but not all. And so on. Nothing against creative commons, it is just another use of copyright. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime WSJ: Can Copyright Be Saved?
The subject reminds me to my slogan: Save copyright, fight DRM. Copyright nd DRM are two completely different things anyway. Copyright is something human, a social something, DRM is technic. Copyright has exeptions and an end, DRM not. DRM kills copyright as a social thing, DRM is just tyranny. The main point is: You cannot obey the law if you cant break it, if you cant break it, thats DRM, the law just disappears. It is a strange optic to say the digital times kill copyright. They have made copying just easier. A lot of people used Napster etc, but not all. And so on. Nothing against creative commons, it is just another use of copyright. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses
Martin, Anyway, Francis has suggested that Florian take up the maintenance of OC Think it is the same in common law, but the first thing that comes to mind from a continental point of view is that content is free anyway, topic of copyright law is the form in which the content is presented. So Open Text License would be much better anyway. You have to say what you want... I share a feeling with Tim that the CC/Boyle conglomeration are doing some interesting work but there is something missing for me in their political analysis (if I can put it in those terms). There seems to be a preoccpuation in some ways with fitting the commons into capital (if I may be so blunt) rather than grasping the significance of these things as (to borrow from Stefan Merten) a milestone on a road to a new way of doing things/society. My initial feeling is that (excuse this for those friends in the States) is that CC is too hung up on North American ideas of liberty and the founding fathers. It is one thing I have trouble with when I read Lessig, Boyle et al...this preoccupation with the values of the US or their version of what they are. To say this is not Yeah, and my concern is that we care much to much about the local values of the US society, the many problems in California are not ours, if we live elsewhere. This is not against solidarity, but the problems are not allways the same. Communicating american values a la Gingrich, not with me. Good point! H. around would help of course as well (no shortage of that). Thus I am keen to suggest that if there is a feeling that CC is not for some of us we establish a mechanism (some server space please) to take this task on. http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- this MIME type is dynamic... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Update: Linux strikes back... III
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, . __ . wrote: Sometimes one can find things on findlaw. I think that the attack against Open Source must be dealt with in an exemplary way so that other companies do not even dream of repeating this farce... I am not completely convinced about this. First of all, why should I defend IBM? Because it is part of the good and against evil ? They invented the PC but the clever Bill Gates got the money, chapeau, however bad his OS is today. Dos was not unix but it worked. Copyleft etc is fine, Caldera and Linux etcpp, but besides that, it is possible that the old contracts between IBM and SCO are more special. This is about pacta sunt servanda, a completely different story. So it seems that the only question in this case is whether IBM could terminate those contracts, nothing more. And I dont care much about this. Not everything with the label linux is about that freedom that we like. IBMs freedom is not mine. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime My dissens with Pocock
Sorry for typos, but this is allready the center of the problem: There are important things, for men, and things, that arent importatnt at all. Only machines need exactness, exactness is needed for a certain kind of controlling and such controlling isnt important at all. It leads to things like the DMCA with its penal law approach, not to mention the Berne convention and fair use and the hollywood/dvdplayerindustries forced(?) agreements (is a dvd player that ignores hollywood a circumvention in the sense of DMCA or is then there simply no DRM at all?) A content industry with measure of the eye would maybe play with DRM, but just as technic, without the ugly penal side of things, DMCA is like afghanistan Saw Pococks unmovie project only once or twice, in Cologne, in Karlsruhe it wasnt on, well, now it had some nice sides...(as a sculpture or whatever, no kidding). The first thing I saw was some algorithm driven triviality, name of famous philosophers were floating over a flash animation. Exact database things. Compare this to the magic of orang.orang.org or the magic of reading logfiles. There is place for imagination. There are some exact things, for example you see that uscourts.gov or disney or dreamworks has visited you, you know that somebody with irix 64 from kansas city plant needs exactly 3 minutes to click on the only not so trivial link, but you dont see why. Well, there is place for imagination in Pococks unmovie too, but somewhere else. His exactness isnt about real life but exact nonsense. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime Declaration of Lima, about Internationalization of Cyberspace (fwd)
We had this topic: From: GIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Declaration of Lima, about Internationalization of Cyberspace Group of Internationalization of Cyberspace http://www.alfa-redi.org/GIC Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey Comunidad Alfa-Redi Lima, 2/7/03 Subject: Declaration of Lima, GIC (http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/lima-en.asp) Dear Friends, Much time has passed since the First World Congress for Informatics and Law and the creation of the Group for the Internationalization of Cyberspace (GIC) (http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic). Some international publications have given us a favorable echo and we have been supported by various Latin American and European associations. Our first demand, as stated in our Resolution of Quito (http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/quito.asp), knowingly the convocation of an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations, has been satisfied with the organization of the World Summit for the Information Society(http://www.itu.int/wsis). But there is still work in regard to our second and main demand: the establishment of an international legal frame for Cyberspace, in order to insure peace, development and the elimination of the digital divide. It seemed that at the beginning our participation in the Summit had been insured by the ITU; but since then, it occurred that the Secretary General of the ITU did not consider to invite us for PREPCOM 2. Consequently, we have to fight for having our place in the Summit, taking into consideration that our proposal could be adopted by other organizations with whom we do share the same principles. Being conscience that many associations ought to comply with their own issues, they nevertheless might also take into consideration our proposal that aims to be equilibrated, neutral and complying with the principal demands of the civil society organizations. Consequently, we do invite you to support our project and its proposal to Internationalize Cyberspace; to join the Declaration of Lima (http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/lima-en.asp) and to diffuse it. Together, we can fight for the same goal: a Free and Open Cyberspace: not so much for us than for our children. Some say that the future does not belong to us; it is only rented to us by the next generations. In this, we do believe, and for this, we do fight. Best regards Dr. James A. Graham Chairman of the Steering Committee GIC For support: mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; subject: Support GIC . Please indicate your name, charge and organization (and in case, please indicate if it is a personal or institutional support). -- EURO-LEX info: list object and policy, subscribers, countries, subscribe/signoff procedures, list archive, searches, contact. Send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], text = info euro-lex -- # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime Could we be tracked by micro RFID tags? (fwd)
Well, it seems privacy is over. Or do we not have to care since identity and what we wear are different? Voila: -- Forwarded message -- RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages By Declan McCullagh January 13, 2003, 6:26 AM PT Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future? I'm not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what Applied Digital Systems of Palm Beach, Fla., would like to do. Nor am I talking about John Poindexter's creepy Total Information Awareness spy-veillance system, which I wrote about last week. Instead, in the future, we could be tracked because we'll be wearing, eating and carrying objects that are carefully designed to do so. The generic name for this technology is RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification. RFID tags are miniscule microchips, which already have shrunk to half the size of a grain of sand. They listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting their unique ID code. Most RFID tags have no batteries: They use the power from the initial radio signal to transmit their response. You should become familiar with RFID technology because you'll be hearing much more about it soon. Retailers adore the concept, and CNET News.com's own Alorie Gilbert wrote last week about how Wal-Mart and the U.K.-based grocery chain Tesco are starting to install smart shelves with networked RFID readers. In what will become the largest test of the technology, consumer goods giant Gillette recently said it would purchase 500 million RFID tags from Alien Technology of Morgan Hill, Calif. Alien Technology won't reveal how it charges for each tag, but industry estimates hover around 25 cents. The company does predict that in quantities of 1 billion, RFID tags will approach 10 cents each, and in lots of 10 billion, the industry's holy grail of 5 cents a tag. It becomes unnervingly easy to imagine a scenario where everything you buy that's more expensive than a Snickers will sport RFID tags, which typically include a 64-bit unique identifier yielding about 18 thousand trillion possible values. KSW-Microtec, a German company, has invented washable RFID tags designed to be sewn into clothing. And according to EE Times, the European central bank is considering embedding RFID tags into banknotes by 2005. [... remainder snipped and available at http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html ...] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime ITU To Propose Intl Cyberspace Treaty at WSIS (fwd)
Thought this may be of interest to some of you. Not very new news but I hadnt seen it. H. Et voila: -Original Message- snip ITU To Propose Intl Cyberspace Treaty At Information Summit 279 words 14 November 2002 Nikkei Report English (c) 2002 Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TOKYO (Nikkei)--The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will propose at the World Summit on the Information Society in December 2003 the creation of an international cyberspace treaty to set forth basic rules on Internet taxation, copyright protection and crime prevention, according to Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi. In an interview with The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Utsumi said the ITU, a United Nations agency, believes that different rules among countries will hamper cross-border e-commerce and lead to more Internet crimes. The ITU announced a basic plan for the treaty at a preparatory meeting for the summit held in Europe in early November. It will seek cooperation from the Japanese government at a preparatory meeting in Asia in January. The union hopes to incorporate plans to sign the treaty in an actionprogram to be compiled at the world summit, which will be attended by heads of state. The treaty will cover taxation of international e-commerce; copyright protection for content; prevention of Internet crimes, such as cyberterrorism and release of offensive material; security measures such as prevention of illegal access and data tampering; and privacy protection. It will set forth uniform domestic and international guidelines to handle problems that occur. If countries have different rules, some countries will gain a commercial advantage over others, fair competition will be hindered due to the spread of illegal products, and countries without rules could become a hotbed of crime, according to Utsumi. The ITU believes the international rules will be helpful for developing countries in Africa and Asia when they draw up their information technology policies. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition) 1/20/02 DIARY - POLITICAL AND GENERAL 398 words 21 November 2002 - End forwarded message - # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Multimedia Instead Of Law?
Table of Contents: Re: nettime Multimedia Instead Of Law? Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: nettime Multimedia Instead Of Law? Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:21:24 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nettime Multimedia Instead Of Law? Where will this lead? Typical juristic methods such as deductive and inductive logic, analogy and syllogism are not at all mediagenic. Abstract chains of logical deduction may be represented through images only with difficulty. Bla. The cases of the federal court of justice (BGH), for example, are full of images, abstract and sometimes wrong, but the natuerliche Betrachtungsweise (sotosay natural view) is one of the BGHs favourites. Instead of instead of we should think more about a visualisation of cases. There are so many beautifull cases in the books etc. Cases, thats where the law comes from. For example in some New Sealand or Australia against France case, the drowning of the Rainbow Warrior with one dead, the photographer in his darkroom. The case is phantastic. How France arranged that the actors of the happening, artwork in the harbour, were sent to a french prison island in the south sea, bangalows and the sea, and even released from there after a year in the sun. How do they live today, what happened to their chefs etc, movies of cases.. Anyway, one real man really dead. H. -- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:47:40 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nettime Multimedia Instead Of Law? Where will this lead? Typical juristic methods such as deductive and inductive logic, analogy and syllogism are not at all mediagenic. Abstract chains of logical deduction may be represented through images only with difficulty. Bla. The cases of the federal court of justice (BGH), for example, are full of images, abstract and sometimes wrong, but the natuerliche Betrachtungsweise (sotosay natural view) is one of the BGHs favourites. H. -- # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime law and theft
special mixture of rather open rules and faits accomplis, the many copyprotected cds allready on the market. Most people like more to read There is, to be precise, article 6 paragraph 2 subparagraph 2 or the eu directive, which isnt a must but a may regulation, states may force the industry to deliver the necessary tools for privat copies of cds, but they must not (in contrast to other exeptions where they must). And there is time pressure, the new law must be ready before the 22th of december, in two or three weeks, so the german lawmaker has excluded this difficult point from the german WIPO and EU translation (changes to the Urheber Gesetz). While there is chrismas with millions of copyprotected CDs unter the tree. Bom Sharkar! H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
