Saturday, April 25, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
... TPB continues
It has now come to attention that the judge in the PirateBay case might have been challengeable, why am I not surprised. As he is a member of several organizations that deal with copyright issues thus there seems to be a connection between him and the plaintiff. He was so to speak "sleeping with the prosecuting side" as one blogger I read puts it this morning.
note: (I´m not sure I used the right vocabulary here, had to look up the words conserning law, so please be indulgent and hope the text is understandable)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
PP and TPB
The issues concerning the Pirate Bay trial, I find it extremely difficult to have feelings around them and to tell about it, especially when it´s not in my native language. As for the technical matters I´m almost completely lost, I just don´t get the terminology about torrents and stuff. What I do see is the political points and the matter of our freedom of speech, but I decided not to go deep into this for the reason that I´m not so sure about how I really feel, thus I only posted a mark, the link to Wired Magazine.
Now, I had this comment from miss JustMeriMaat, and that challanges me to have a try, cause I realize this is an all over the world interest, and I hear netusers all over will be disappointed if TPB goes out because they are said to be the best, technicallywise.
For starters I am of the opinion that artists should be payed for their work, as it is today they´re already a disadvantaged group in terms of that, our society is not in favour of artists. (if they´re not super famous of course) What surprises me is that they are obviously the biggest opponents to TPB, I don´t fully get that, cause as I see it the internet is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to expose themselves, in ways that just wasn´t possible a decade ago.
Yesterday evening I watched a TV show, two Swedish extremely foolish fellows had Marilyn Manson in the studio and they really made a boring show out of it, if I may say. While relaxing on my coach, watching MM and fellows with one half of my brainmaterial, I used the other half to write down some thoughts on the Pirate Bay-show, and here it is:
Well, how do I feel about it, it´s like a big sigh actually, it´s so tiresome when media-actors try and slow down technical advance and development by chasing culprits, instead of learning the new shit! "sigh"
That just about covers it. :-)
We are in a time of inbetween the old and the new, and to be able to use the new media technique we are forced to learn otherwise we lose, that´s how it has to be, we could never stop the world turning. Now the so called old media hunt down the newcomers in one last attempt to retain power, pitiful, and how very embarrassing. So much energy used in sueing people, and they´re sued for something that isn´t even a crime, or at least nobody knows if it really is a crime. Come on! :( If the consumers had a decent line of action to easily and cheap buy music, litterature, movies or whatever, I´m sure they would. I would.
It´s also a matter of free speech, that´s the most important issue as I see it, those who put TPB on trial constitute a threat to our freedom of speech, and now that is politics. TPB has to pay to set an example, to let the big media companies win the first round. I believe the court are in the hands of the big record and movie companies, and that is a threat aganinst our democratic society and resemblance in front of the law, and that is bad and scary. I understand Sweden has a very good reputaion and has been to some extent a leading nation in computer tech, will we be able to hold our position in future ...
I´m not sure where this will lead us and I sincerely hope they are right, the guys on TPB, when they say we needn´t worry, that this is just a plain media-show. I think this is becoming close to war, the young versus the older, and I´m so f...g disappointed with some of the great Swedish artists, writers and musicians who have gathered against TPB, they are rich and could easily afford to give away parts of their work. Could it be a fact that these are the ones who don´t have the brainmeans enough to assimilate skill to use the net to their favour ... ??? instead of fighting it!
If it comes to reality that all this will lead us to severe restrictions on the net, then this is a disaster, so I really hope it will not. Imagine we have to ask for permission to enter all websites, or subscribe for most of the pages we use ... ugh. "sigh"
Well, how do I feel about it ... I really don´t know. I only wish this time inbetween will pass quickly.
Note: The Pirate Party has increased their members by 13 400 in less than three days. They will play a big part in our European elections this summer, a fenomena due to the verdict.
Now, I had this comment from miss JustMeriMaat, and that challanges me to have a try, cause I realize this is an all over the world interest, and I hear netusers all over will be disappointed if TPB goes out because they are said to be the best, technicallywise.
For starters I am of the opinion that artists should be payed for their work, as it is today they´re already a disadvantaged group in terms of that, our society is not in favour of artists. (if they´re not super famous of course) What surprises me is that they are obviously the biggest opponents to TPB, I don´t fully get that, cause as I see it the internet is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to expose themselves, in ways that just wasn´t possible a decade ago.
Yesterday evening I watched a TV show, two Swedish extremely foolish fellows had Marilyn Manson in the studio and they really made a boring show out of it, if I may say. While relaxing on my coach, watching MM and fellows with one half of my brainmaterial, I used the other half to write down some thoughts on the Pirate Bay-show, and here it is:
Well, how do I feel about it, it´s like a big sigh actually, it´s so tiresome when media-actors try and slow down technical advance and development by chasing culprits, instead of learning the new shit! "sigh"
That just about covers it. :-)
We are in a time of inbetween the old and the new, and to be able to use the new media technique we are forced to learn otherwise we lose, that´s how it has to be, we could never stop the world turning. Now the so called old media hunt down the newcomers in one last attempt to retain power, pitiful, and how very embarrassing. So much energy used in sueing people, and they´re sued for something that isn´t even a crime, or at least nobody knows if it really is a crime. Come on! :( If the consumers had a decent line of action to easily and cheap buy music, litterature, movies or whatever, I´m sure they would. I would.
It´s also a matter of free speech, that´s the most important issue as I see it, those who put TPB on trial constitute a threat to our freedom of speech, and now that is politics. TPB has to pay to set an example, to let the big media companies win the first round. I believe the court are in the hands of the big record and movie companies, and that is a threat aganinst our democratic society and resemblance in front of the law, and that is bad and scary. I understand Sweden has a very good reputaion and has been to some extent a leading nation in computer tech, will we be able to hold our position in future ...
I´m not sure where this will lead us and I sincerely hope they are right, the guys on TPB, when they say we needn´t worry, that this is just a plain media-show. I think this is becoming close to war, the young versus the older, and I´m so f...g disappointed with some of the great Swedish artists, writers and musicians who have gathered against TPB, they are rich and could easily afford to give away parts of their work. Could it be a fact that these are the ones who don´t have the brainmeans enough to assimilate skill to use the net to their favour ... ??? instead of fighting it!
If it comes to reality that all this will lead us to severe restrictions on the net, then this is a disaster, so I really hope it will not. Imagine we have to ask for permission to enter all websites, or subscribe for most of the pages we use ... ugh. "sigh"
Well, how do I feel about it ... I really don´t know. I only wish this time inbetween will pass quickly.
Note: The Pirate Party has increased their members by 13 400 in less than three days. They will play a big part in our European elections this summer, a fenomena due to the verdict.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Ghost Exit only comes as Ghost Exit ... thus Ghost Exit it is.
I went to the bookstore yesterday looking for a book written by Philip Roth, recently published in Swedish. I had forgotten the title, naturally cause I hadn´t written it down, but I thought once I spot it I would recognize it. I´d read about Philp Roth on a blog discussing all kinds of cultural events and occurrences, the blog-guy just got hold of this book and informed the readers about the genius author that he himself had failed to appreciate. He caught my interest, thus I took a chance when we visited the bookstore to buy the third part of the Twilight books for my daughter, even thought I hadn´t made any mental note of the title.
I randomly searched the bookshelves, without luck, there was no title what so ever to find on Philip Roth. I don´t consider myself a bad searcher when it comes to books, after all I worked at the library once arranging all kinds of books in all kinds of languages in alphabetical order, so I felt a bit confused here (or was it the store had an illlogical muddle in their shelves :-)). My daughter instantly found her book, but I turned to the salesman for help. He looked up and found some titles but not the one I looked for, now I´d only read the title in question in Swedish, the English titles just made no impression at all on my person and I had no idea wich one to chose, but by this time I really had the intention of buying one of them and, in other words, I had to make up my mind.
I finally chose the title Ghost Exit and we headed for the cashier, the salesman greeted us and seemed pleased about my choice. Once we had payed for the books he looked in the catalouge once more and to his surprise he found a title in Swedish publised only last month, the title was Våldnaden Försvinner same as The Ghost Disappears but in Swedish , (of course :-)) ... Ghost Exit. I had chosen the right book, totally unaware.
I randomly searched the bookshelves, without luck, there was no title what so ever to find on Philip Roth. I don´t consider myself a bad searcher when it comes to books, after all I worked at the library once arranging all kinds of books in all kinds of languages in alphabetical order, so I felt a bit confused here (or was it the store had an illlogical muddle in their shelves :-)). My daughter instantly found her book, but I turned to the salesman for help. He looked up and found some titles but not the one I looked for, now I´d only read the title in question in Swedish, the English titles just made no impression at all on my person and I had no idea wich one to chose, but by this time I really had the intention of buying one of them and, in other words, I had to make up my mind.
I finally chose the title Ghost Exit and we headed for the cashier, the salesman greeted us and seemed pleased about my choice. Once we had payed for the books he looked in the catalouge once more and to his surprise he found a title in Swedish publised only last month, the title was Våldnaden Försvinner same as The Ghost Disappears but in Swedish , (of course :-)) ... Ghost Exit. I had chosen the right book, totally unaware.
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