CyberSpace Embassy of Piracy
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music ‘victory’ against Jammie Thomas-Rasset isn’t even pyrrhic.
It’s a total and unmitigated disaster for the Big 4 labels, and one from which they’ll never recover.
The backlash in terms of public relations and the inevitable plummet in ‘product’ sales that will follow is incalculable.
And it’s all because of the Net which gives people from every walk of life, everywhere, a collective voice so loud it can’t be ignored.
Nor is it confined to entertainment.
In Iran, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is similarly finding things just ain’t what they used to be.
In pre-Internet days, he’d have gotten away scot-free with the rigged vote that put him back in office. But thanks to the Net in the shape of Twitter, he’s been entirely unable to put wraps around the country-wide protests and demonstrations, and the death of innocent people, which resulted.
Because CyberSpace is much more than simply a place. It’s federation of men, women and children who, for the first time in history, are able to effectively reverse the age-old system under which a tiny minority is able to control, and dictate to, the huge majority.
Pirate Parties are now integral parts of political life both on and off line. So why not a Net Embassy of Piracy?
Says the embassy web site »»»
We will not allow them to regulate us – we are the network.
Whether it is States which can not handle the free flow of information, or private companies that can not switch their business models to new technologies and stand in the way of people’s needs to communicate. Embassy of Piracy are here to defend the freedom of Internet.
It goes on »»»
Prevailing institutional systems and structures have proven inadequate to the task of organizing and managing the openness of networked society. Now, via democratic systems, they are attacking the fundamental functions of the Internet, such as the free distribution of information.
With Embassy of Piracy, we want to re-imagine an institutional form and practice. We set out to create an institutional form that is responsive to the logic of social-technical networks and non-representational democratic processes.
We love the Internet and we share this love with a multitude of people around the world. With Embassy of Piracy, we want to make informal network connections stronger. By a set of simple copyable, reproducible and remixable acts of sharing we want to start to open the gates to these stories and experiences and build connections between them.
We want to build the largest, most widely and wildly spread embassy in the world. We started this with an open call for everyone to participate by building their own embassies in the shape of foldable, customized paper pyramid models that can be printed from the web site. The response has been pandemic. http://www.embassyofpiracy.org.
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As an embassy is a state in another state, the love and freedom of Internet is a state in all states of the world. On this freedom we want to build diplomatic network relations.
If you love the Internet you are an ambassador.
If you care, share, and help us imagine what this could be.
MEDIA CONTACTS
embassy@embassyofpiracy.org
PRODUCTION
In collaboration with the Internet Pavilion
Now you know.
(Thanks, John M)
June, 2009
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June 19th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Sharing is worthless. Newsgroups are the future.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Newgroups are a thing in the past. They’re so old, and the fact that they want to charge for access is bogus.