Re: Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History

2017-10-06 Thread Elena Razlogova
In its piracy origins Spotify may be typical among the contemporary online corporate music services. Shazam (music recognition app downloaded over 1 billion times) ripped 1.5 million vinyl & cd records for its initial database in 2003 from music retailer Entertainment UK, a subsidiary of

Re: Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History

2017-10-06 Thread Morlock Elloi
Enterprises vehemently oppose being tracked and analyzed, which is exactly what they are doing to their users. This makes it obvious that the object of tracking and analyzing suffers damage, in short and long term, because someone outside knows its internal state, and can use it against such

Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History

2017-10-06 Thread Geert Lovink
See first: https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-threatened-researchers-who-revealed-pirate-history-171006/ This story is about algorithmic transparency, and the way platforms have come to interfer in public opinion. Spotify attempted to shut down a publicly funded research project because it did

Re: Catalonia and mainstream opinion

2017-10-06 Thread morlockelloi
Is there some small country Spain can engage in a war with? That would work for all parties involved. On 10/6/17, 10:08, chml wrote: So...let's say, this is like House of Cards, but real. It's disgusting, but it is like this. This situation led to an unprecedented polarization in wich (like in

Steven Levy Joi Ito and the Donald

2017-10-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:02:43PM +, nettim...@kein.org wrote: > Check > Re: Steven Levy: Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like Dera nettime-l, The old ACER provided by CRIR runs on software that Wired doesn't accede to anymore. If you're nice and patient, you could send me a c+p

Re: Catalonia and mainstream opinion

2017-10-06 Thread chml
(excuse my english) and the long mail Hello...I'm ussually a lurker of this mail list, but as I live in spain (bot I'm not spanish, born in southamerica) it's my intention to add some ideas to the debate not to start a flame! :) read this as you read an skeptical opinion and lot of this are

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

2017-10-06 Thread Johnatan Petterson
Oh. I generously accept the criticism. I certainly don't know 'theory' as to what relates to this list aura. I have an habit to post to Virginia-e (the deleuze-guattari list there), but not anymore it seems, emptied due to the facebook plateforms, and may-be the explosion of the deleuze-guattari

Catalonia and mainstream opinion

2017-10-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
Reading stuff in newspapers and others the last few days I am getting increasingly shocked - and worried, about what appears to be mainstream (media & politics) opinion wrt the 'events' in Catalonia. It boils down to something like 'Catalonians are nationalistic fools, what they do is ramp