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The Target Value For Bitcoin Is Not Some $50 Or $100. It Is $100,000 To...
Swarm Economy: Bitcoin’s value is at an all-time high again. Following the hype peak and crash in 2011, many seemed to have thought it was just another dotcom fluke. But bitcoin was much more than...
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Next Tuesday, The European Parliament Votes To Ban All Your Porn. Yes,...
Freedom of Speech: Next Tuesday, the European Parliament will vote yes to a report calling for a legislative ban on all pornography in “media”. This “media” is worded to include the internet, and is...
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Artists: We’re Not Salespeople, We’re Street Performers
Reflections – Zacqary Adam Green: My fellow artists, we need to talk. We’re all starving, our fans are starving, and life just sucks for all of us. The only way we’re going to make a living as...
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Porn Ban Update: Europarl Responds By Spamfiltering Constituents, Then...
Freedom of Speech: The European Parliament has responded to protests against a ban on pornography by spamfiltering its consistuents’ protests, then deleting the explanation of what the bill does from...
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European Parliament Just Voted To Ban Porn, But Refrains From Extending Scope...
Freedom of Speech: The European Parliament has just voted in favor of the much-discussed blanket ban on all forms of pornography. But first, it decided to strike out the much-discussed extension of...
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The European Parliament (Mostly) Said No To A Porn Ban
Freedom of Speech – Christian Engström: The European parliament’s vote earlier this week on a resolution that asked for a ban on all forms of pornography in the media was not entirely easy to...
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After Cyprus, New Tolls For The Euro
Reflections: After the attempted tolls on bank savings in Cyprus for saving the Euro, a new kind of tolls can be heard in the distance for the currency. The fundamental trust in the currency as a store...
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The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience
Infrastructure: The Pirate Bay is a site that has remained online for ten years come this summer, despite attempts from almost every Ancient-Power-That-Be to shut it down. It has often been said that...
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Why Expensify Endorsing Bitcoin Is A Really Big Deal: Social Virality
Swarm Economy: Yesterday, news broke that the Expensify service has enabled bitcoin payments. With the rapidly expanding number of businesses accepting bitcoin as payment method, one could think that...
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Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did
Swarm Economy: There is a bitcoin craze at the moment, with prices of bitcoin skyrocketing. Bitcoin is still far from ready for prime time, but as it matures, it will change society’s fundamental...
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What We Learn From This Bitcoin Correction
Swarm Economy: Bitcoin is correcting sharply, as expected. From this episode, we learn (again) that bitcoin is not magic and is not a get-rich-quick scheme, and that the bitcoin financial ecosystem is...
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Creators Of Public-Domain Bible Threatened With Lawsuit By Other Bible’s...
Copyright Monopoly: Religion is big business. The Christian Bible, like any other book, is under copyright monopoly – or, to be precise, any translation of it younger than 100 years or so is under...
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Let’s Reform Copyright. With A Sledgehammer. Into Smithereens.
Copyright Monopoly – Zacqary Adam Green: There are many ways we could reform the copyright monopoly to solve some of its problems. This is politically doable. But long-term, we really just need to...
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United States Government Shows The World It Doesn’t Understand The Internet,...
Infopolicy: The United States Department of Defense has “claimed ownership” of CAD drawings of a plastic, printable pistol. In doing so, they apparently believe they can stop the files from existing....
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Swedish National Prosecutor Says Sharing Music/Movies Must Be Punished...
Copyright Monopoly: In a remarkably ignorant statement, the Swedish National Prosecutor has appealed a culture-sharing sentence to the Supreme Court with the motivation that sharing culture and...
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Prosecutor Hints That Root Domain Registry Is Criminally Liable For Copyright...
Copyright Monopoly: Prosecutors in Sweden have sued the root domain registry of .SE domains to kill the domain name of The Pirate Bay. The root registry fights back heavily. This case is important to...
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Why Google Is Not A Search Engine But An Investigative News Agency, And Why...
Infopolicy: Google has long been the number one “search engine”. Perhaps that’s the entirely wrong way to think about the service, leading to a number of unintended and bad legal consequences. The term...
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How Bitcoin Can Bring Down The United States Of America
Swarm Economy: Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower. Following the USA’s...
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Told You So: If You Have Been Using A Centralized Comms Service, You Were...
Privacy: This night, news broke that the USA’s security agencies have been wiretapping essentially every major centralized social service for private data. Photos, video conferences, text chats, and...
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4 UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology
Privacy – Zacqary Adam Green: Now that our worst wiretapping fears have been confirmed, millions of people are realizing that we need to start using decentralized, encrypted communication yesterday....
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