NSA: “We must know everything” – a reminder
The NSA has been out of the newsflow for a while, until some unknown hacker group decided to copy their tools and offer them for sale at one million bitcoin…
Rick Falkvinge
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. Additionally, he has a tech entrepreneur background and loves good whisky and fast motorcycles.
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UK Court: ISPs have to block *trademark* infringements in addition to copyright infringements
In a world first, a UK Appeals court has ruled that ISPs have an obligation to censor sites that infringe trademarks off the Internet, building on previous rulings that say…
More examples of how licensing kills progress: the stories of Gopher and GIF
At Private Internet Access, we're dependent on - and celebrating - the existence of free and open strong cryptography. Time and again, people proclaiming the virtues of monopolies and exclusive…
You don’t have Freedom of Speech without Privacy
Freedom of Speech is the idea that you can discuss ideas without fear of harassment. But the judicial protection is actually quite weak; it only protects you from repercussions from…
As 3D printers break through, EU expands copyright to furniture and extends term by a century
The UK has just changed its copyright-and-patent monopoly law to extend copyright to furniture and to extend the term of that copyright on furniture with about a century. This follows…
Study: people will risk getting shot to replace everyday safety with privacy
Once upon a time, a population with homogeneous culture and language was divided into two halves. One half got almost-perfect safety, full employment and living wages, while the other half…
How copyright is irreparably, fundamentally incompatible with privacy
Copyright and privacy cannot coexist. Society is at a crossroads where only one of these will exist in the future, and the copyright industry has been working hard to erode…
BitTorrent is fifteen years old. What would a file sharing technology developed today look like?
BitTorrent was developed in 2001: today's file-sharing technology predates the launch of Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone. In those fifteen years, surveillance and repression technologies have advanced massively. If we…
The utter futility of the legal attack on KickassTorrents
The operator of the torrent site KickassTorrents has been arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the domains seized. This action, while deplorable, shows that the copyright…
European Supreme Court says “Maybe” to mass surveillance of innocents
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) says that mass surveillance of innocent people may be legal in a preliminary ruling issued today. The ECJ is the highest court in the…