Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-21 Thread Magnus Boman
Last week Peter also announced his new art project, the Kopimashin, which copies a song about eight million times in a day, creating huge losses (sic) for the music industry: The Kopimashin creates an endless amount of copies of a specific audio track (gnarls barkleyâs crazy). The a

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-14 Thread Fenwick Mckelvey
Hi all, Thanks for sharing. I have always found the comments of Peter Sunde provocative to say the least and an interesting moment of reflection about tactical media. IMHO the Pirate Bay remains a seminal case of media activism (all things considered) especially to see someone like

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-13 Thread Jonathan Marshall
Peter: >> I'd say that the biggest 'meme'-hijack of the last 40 years has been >> equating the idea of 'freedom' with the right to purchase - end of >>story. >This was in Smith and capitalised on (wordplay intended) by Ford. Wasn't >it? So not really just the last 40 years. As far as I know, the

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-13 Thread kontakt | florian kuhlmann
great comment. thanx. :-) thats reason way nettime is still there. sincerely florian Am 12.12.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Jonathan Marshall : Morlock: Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial content was the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-13 Thread mp
On 12/12/15 23:04, Jonathan Marshall wrote: > Morlock: > >> Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial >> content was the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It reminds of >> the sinister side of some hippie communities, where 'free love' was >> used to excuse rape. > > I'd say t

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-13 Thread Magnus Boman
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:24 AM Jonathan Marshall wrote: Morlock: > Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial content was > the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It reminds of the sinister side > of some hippie communities, where 'free love' was used

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-12 Thread Jonathan Marshall
Morlock: >Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial content was >the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It reminds of the sinister side >of some hippie communities, where 'free love' was used to excuse rape. I'd say that the biggest 'meme'-hijack of the last 40 years has been

Re: Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-12 Thread morlockelloi
Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial content was the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It reminds of the sinister side of some hippie communities, where 'free love' was used to excuse rape. The worst part is that 'free' re-distribution of the commercial content causes

Vice > Peter Sunde > I Have Given Up

2015-12-11 Thread nettime's_checkered_flag
< http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-have-given-up > Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up' Written by JOOST MOLLEN December 11, 2015 // 02:26 PM EST "The internet is shit today. It's broken. It was probably always broken, but it's worse than ever." My conversat