It came from the European Court of Justice, on a complaint from a Spanish citizen that wanted to have Google remove link to its case. So the decision of the ECJ finally affected all the union.
This could have been the case with megaupload bust. And the US Gov is not willing to reveal all the documents they used for the indicment of Kim Dotcom and his team just because they can't do that "Parralel Reconstruction"
In previous TOR Bundle JavaScripts were DISABLED by default. In the last version, the one actually available for download, JavaScript is ENABLED by default. Funny right? :-)
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The movie was the first Spanish movie to be released at the same time on the Internet, DVD(without DRM), and Theaters(only 20 due to an exhibitor boicot, even from the ones of the current President of the Spanish Movie Academy). Due to a DRMless DVD released the movie was soon uploaded to the Internet as DVDRip but webmasters from sharing links site were prompt to delete any reference to the "pirated" versions as a recognition for the Director/Poducer efforts to explore new ways of Distribution.
The feature is nomitated in 3 categories for the Spanish Movie Academy Awards Goyas.
Yes we are praying for the administrative commission(Not a Judge in our case) of the Sinde-Wert law(our antipiracy law) to declare a blockade of the TPB. Thanks to our friends of PP-UK and PP-NL our reverse proxy is ready to enter into action. :)
You are wrong, bad laws on enforcing copyright or patents directly affects employment and wealth increase. Copyright and Patents have become a key Issue in coming out of the Economic Crisis.
That is why we, Pirate Parties, are fighting against those laws imposed by declining business models.
Let's see what American Artists think of their industry when they will have to fight inch by inch to get back their copyright next year.
A law promulgated in '78 said that 35 years later(2013) the artists are legitimated to reclaim total control of their rights. For some the fight is already started and the industry is fighting back not to comply with the law.
Artist, in Germany as here in Spain are being scared off by the industry because they are selling them that we, Pirates as Citizens, are willing to pay them, what we want to get rid of are intermediaries whose business is over. Those are the ones that are STEALING the Artists. In Spain we have an investigation going on against high profile Directors of the SGAE(Spanish RIAA) for financial abuse, fraud and they have been arrested and indicted by a Judge on July, 1st 2011. Similar cases have arise also in Belgium(SABAM) and in Brazil(EDCA). In Spain the Civil society, through the FB Group "Manifiesto" born in the wake of the Anti Piracy law, "Ley Sinde" and the Internauts Association are the one that slowly reveals the bribery in SGAE, much of those citizens that fought for their Rights ad for the Rights of the ARTISTS are now in the Spanish Pirate Party.
The Artists are often misguided by the Vampires, as we call them here, those are the intemediaries that are the ones that really see their business sliding down to Bankrupcy while they try at all cost to mantain their "bloodsucking" business. We PIRATES want the Artist to be the one to take benefit of his work by reversing the percentages that are taken from them. That is REALLY for what we stand for and no for free culture(as in free beers)...We want a Culture FREE of parasites in benefits of Creators and Citizenship.
We don't want to eradicate Copyright we want to transform it and the proof is the (free) release of a book jointly written by Cristian Engstr�m, one of the European MP of Pirate Sweden and by Rick Falkvinge, Founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. You can freely download it here or order a ondemand printed book here http://www.copyrightreform.eu/
I have lots of proof that that is what we really want but I'm not a Good Writer, but maybe Mike Masnick and the guys at TechDirt should invite one day Rick Falkvinge to explain what are really the goals of PIRATE Parties. Meanwhile you can take a hint by having a look at a TEDx conference given by Rick http://youtu.be/zsI3-IEWgFg
Stop thinking the "old way". Really we were compelled to be a "Party" and become "Politicians". It is fun to hack the system from outside the system but it is more usefull to hack it from inside. We may have proposals but it is up to the citizens to approve or throw them out. Until our main goals: Direct Democracy, full respect of Human rights, Government transparency, Privacy on the Net, Free access to Culture(not as "free beers")and proliferation of Open Source Software are not met there will be Pirate Parties. Once those achieved we will go back to a Citizen movement in charge of maintaining a permanent surveillance on what has been achieved so nobody could revert what has been gained.
There is a point we are missing I think in this document. If my understanging of english is good enough, it seems that the applicant of a patent will not be the one that will decide if it should go under the protection of a "Secret Order", that will be the USPTO that will take the decision if the patent is "economically significant" by doing so they will override the will of the applicant. I do think that is one of the danger of this "RFC".
First let me take the opportunity to thank Mike Masnick for mentioning me in his post and to salute my friend Anonymous Coward...long time no talk ;). I'm actually the Press Officer of the Spanish PIRATE Party and member of the National Board.
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Re:
MegaUpload
Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters
http://bundlr.com/b/hacking-for-very-big-money
Re:
Hackers Making (very) Big Money selling flaws to Governments
Tor Financial reports
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Re: Similar Experience in Spain...with a Movie
The Google search results https://www.google.es/#q=carmina+or+blow+up&hl=es&newwindow=1&safe=off&tbo=d&rlz =1C2CHNG_esES327&ei=_JMcUcu8L6Gc0QWG-IBQ&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_q f.&fp=6852d3906d6c4157&biw=1424&bih=752
Similar Experience in Spain...with a Movie
The movie was the first Spanish movie to be released at the same time on the Internet, DVD(without DRM), and Theaters(only 20 due to an exhibitor boicot, even from the ones of the current President of the Spanish Movie Academy). Due to a DRMless DVD released the movie was soon uploaded to the Internet as DVDRip but webmasters from sharing links site were prompt to delete any reference to the "pirated" versions as a recognition for the Director/Poducer efforts to explore new ways of Distribution.
The feature is nomitated in 3 categories for the Spanish Movie Academy Awards Goyas.
The economic result of the film can be found here(in Spanish) http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/12/20/actualidad/1356015869_648226.html
Yes the Strings are the same
Spain is praying :)
Franscico George
PIRATA of Spain
Press Officer
Re:
That is why we, Pirate Parties, are fighting against those laws imposed by declining business models.
http://bundlr.com/b/libertad-en-internet-y-la-creacion-de-empleo
Best regards
Francisco George
PIRATA of Spain
Press officer
In US the war for CopyRight will start next year
A law promulgated in '78 said that 35 years later(2013) the artists are legitimated to reclaim total control of their rights. For some the fight is already started and the industry is fighting back not to comply with the law.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/legal-and-management/village-people-s-victor-willis- speaks-out-1007038752.story
Reform of CopyRight that is what we stand for NOT eradicate it
The Artists are often misguided by the Vampires, as we call them here, those are the intemediaries that are the ones that really see their business sliding down to Bankrupcy while they try at all cost to mantain their "bloodsucking" business. We PIRATES want the Artist to be the one to take benefit of his work by reversing the percentages that are taken from them. That is REALLY for what we stand for and no for free culture(as in free beers)...We want a Culture FREE of parasites in benefits of Creators and Citizenship.
We don't want to eradicate Copyright we want to transform it and the proof is the (free) release of a book jointly written by Cristian Engstr�m, one of the European MP of Pirate Sweden and by Rick Falkvinge, Founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. You can freely download it here or order a ondemand printed book here http://www.copyrightreform.eu/
I have lots of proof that that is what we really want but I'm not a Good Writer, but maybe Mike Masnick and the guys at TechDirt should invite one day Rick Falkvinge to explain what are really the goals of PIRATE Parties. Meanwhile you can take a hint by having a look at a TEDx conference given by Rick http://youtu.be/zsI3-IEWgFg
Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 10th, 2012 @ 3:35am
Pirate Party in the US
Let me reassure you there a Pirate party in the US, http://www.pirate-party.us/ , so if somes want to help you are welcome on board. They are also local parties http://www.pirate-party.us/states
Re:
Nuance
There is a point we are missing I think in this document. If my understanging of english is good enough, it seems that the applicant of a patent will not be the one that will decide if it should go under the protection of a "Secret Order", that will be the USPTO that will take the decision if the patent is "economically significant" by doing so they will override the will of the applicant. I do think that is one of the danger of this "RFC".
Re: Its a secret
First let me take the opportunity to thank Mike Masnick for mentioning me in his post and to salute my friend Anonymous Coward...long time no talk ;). I'm actually the Press Officer of the Spanish PIRATE Party and member of the National Board.
Your "fiction" conversation is quite real, so real that it already happened, not in the Patent World but in the CopyRight World, It is a terrible and heartbreaking story http://c4sif.org/2012/02/this-is-why-i-pirate-how-a-groundless-copyright-threat-destroyed-a-young-fi lm-students-dreams-and-career/ you can see that, as commonly said, "Reality is stronger then fiction" but reality is harsher 10 years later that studend is still under FOX pressure so frightening that he retrieved his original story at Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/poqvn/this_is_why_i_pirate/ and posted an explanation http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/pq8ra/this_is_why_i_oppose_the_mpaa/ he had even to pull off a "making of" from its frustrated Short film on Youtube http://youtu.be/M6j8dtHaokg .
So yes CopyRight and Patents can crush somebody's life for real. That is why We Pirate Parties are proposing alternatives to the actual use of Patents and Copyright. I said Alternatives because we are not against those, but we want them to work in favor of Artists and Public. Two proemintent figures of our movement just released a book about the matter "The Case for CopyRight Reform" http://falkvinge.net/2012/04/24/book-release-the-case-for-copyright-reform/ and we issued a call to the Artists http://falkvinge.net/2012/04/23/artists-worldwide-time-to-show-support-for-liberties-and-the-pirate- party/ and we are very happy to see that some of them already prehearded our call "Comedians Stand Up to Copyright Overprotection" http://wjlta.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/comedians-stand-up-to-copyright-overprotection/
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