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In August 2004, The Pirate Bay responded to a legal threat from DreamWorks over the unauthorized distribution of Shrek 2. The response was famously defiant, dismissing the threat with sharp sarcasm:
“As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern E... See more
instagram.comErin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.comA lot of what’s built the World Wide Web in the open information infrastructure that we understand is just actually embedded in a few laws that basically make it so it can be user originated content that can be then hosted on other companies’ websites without having them have liability. As long as, “Hey, we’re in copyright infringement,” if they to... See more
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
We’ve digitized 2.5 million books. Google has as well, but they’re locked up. They locked up the public domain, which we think of as a sin. The library sort of made elite services around it just for themselves.
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
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Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Copyright nearly killed the open web, in fact. Until the 11th hour of international decision-making on the subject, copyright law in both the US and the EU was going to make all intermediaries on the web, from search engines to internet service providers, liable for all copyright infringements that traveled over their networks, whether they knew ab... See more