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Rasmus Fleischerrasmus [at] piratbyran.org

Palle TorssonPalle torsson [at] artliberated.org

thepiratebay.orgpiratbyran.orgpiratgruppen.orgartliberated.org

The grey Commons

Strategic considerations in the copyfight.

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1. We are the shades of the Gray common.

2 What we will talk about

Piratbyrån The Pirate BayPiratgruppen.org /Artliberated

The Bahnhof raidThe first of May demonstrationThe new Swedish copyright lawThe Västerås CaseThe Evidence Machine The Grey Zoning Mental Rights ManagementMedia HistoryCompensation systems? Consumer / producer

3. Nordic shade of the gray commons

The Pirate Bay = the international BitTorrent trackerPiratbyrån = ”The Bureau of Piracy”, SwedenPiratgruppen = ”The Piracy Group”, Denmark

Piratbyrån

The Pirate Bay

Copy Me

Copy Me

Piratgruppen

Piratgruppen no

4. Artist Statement

Artliberated.org

5. The Pirate Year of 2005

The Yellow Brigades

* First file-sharer in Swedish court for sharing a movie

1. Convicted to "only" a fine... ...which means that secrecy IP addresses is the rule

in similar cases. Sharing very many movies might mean prison sentences,

and therefore the possibility to reveal the IP addresses... ...but how then to persecute BitTorrent users? 2. Proof?: a confession in combination with screen dumps If anti-piracy organization's screen dumps are valid as

proof, may then any screen dump be given the same value?

The Västerås case & The Evidence Machine

The Evidence Machine

The Evidence Machine

* New Swedish copyright law, July 1st 2005

Criminalization of "downloading" is not "mass-criminalization", as most downloaders are also uploaders

Stop discussing "downloading"; let's talk about file-sharing as a horizontal activity!

5. The Grey Zoning

* The Grey Zone

Copyright law's definition of "copying" is always arbitraty, purely moral, and based on pre-digital technologies.

Copying is the fact. Copyright is the phantasm.

The copyright industry must obscure the real workings of networked computers,

introducing the artificial distinction between "streaming" and "downloading".

Mental rights management.

Mental Right Management

Cut word linesCut music lines

Smash the control imagesSmash the control machine.

---William S. Burroughs

* Alternative compensation systems Aim: saving copyright and file-sharing Supporters: Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, EFF, Fairsharing.de, some French parlamentarians... ...and the anti-piracy lobby?

Many unsolvable problems: Who to "compensate"? Record companies? Authors? Bloggers?

How to value different media? Why "punish" all usage of digital media?

* Beyond the consumer/producer dichotomy

Stop talking about "content"! People pay for possibilities to interact and communicate.

…and We do not represent "consumer interests"! Copyright economy = producing the "consumer“/”producer” split

Compensation systems: channeling money to the officially recognized "producers"

Restrictions on technology usage separates "professionals" from the rest

...but so-called "user-generated content" are where the profits for online business is generated, anyway. (Blogs, communities, gaming worlds, photo sharing, chatrooms...)

Leaving the imaginary division behind: it's not about a future utopia.

Rasmus Fleischerrasmus [at] piratbyran.org

Palle Torssonpalle.torsson [at] artliberated.org

thepiratebay.orgpiratbyran.orgpiratgruppen.orgartliberated.org

Meet The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and Artliberated.

Tonight, 20.00