[pp.int.general] About Black March

[Aza]

What we are doing in the PPAr is building a P2P guide,
that has grown to include some basics about the workings
of the net, how censorship works, and how to bypass it.
What are proxies and how to use them. And how to use
torrents safely (i.e. using proxies or ip block lists)

Maybe not telling them, don't buy, but teaching them
ho to pirate :P

Also, content industry is very diverse, you might be
buying from them and not even know it. Some might
own magazines, sell mp3 players, etc.

aza

2012/2/9 Pat Maechler aka Valio <pirate at valio.ch>:
> Lately I've seen a number of calls to action for "Black March" whose
> participants are urged not to acquire any kind of artistic works
> during March 2012 [1].
> The idea behind it is to deny profits to the "content industry" in
> order to stop them from their heavy loobying activities.
>
> In it's current form I would strongly advise against participating or
> continue spreading it!
> I urge all pirates to participate solely with a heavily sophisticated
> version of this action or otherwise to publicly distance themselves
> from it.
>
> In the current form it's one of the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
> I appreciate the intention, but unforntunately that will likely not
> matter: Likely mass media will display those participating to be
> against art or artists in general.
> Thus, those who support it (or are jus even just getting linked to it)
> will be placed close to the most inhumane regimes known in the history
> of mankind.
>
> To propose an alternative: It would be way better and more
> sophisticated to program and distribute programs that warn users of
> artistic works, that have beem
> which are marketed by corporations which use said lobbying, such as
> the "big 6" [3]. This has been has already been done for SOPA / PIPA,
> making, so it is it possible [2a][2b].
>
> I write this now, as there seems to be more and more supporter of this
> call to action in it's unsophisticated, poulistic and dangerous
> version
> I have been personally supporting artists and programmers for years
> that work on their own an not via the "content industry"; I will
> continue to so in March as well.
> From my perspective one of the aim of the pirate movement is the
> liberation of art from copyright, but it has never been the liberation
> of the world from art.
> However the latter one is a common accusation by opponents of the
> pirate movement.
> If this action is carried out in the current form without clearly
> communicating *in advance* that would be solely targeted at the
> "content industry", but not artists it will be used as an argument
> against you in mass media.
>
> This is solely my personal opinion. It is not an official
> communication as part of any of my current mandates.
>
> Sidenote: I would like to take the opportunity to advertise the
> project political javascript. [5]
>
> [1] http://black-march.com/
> [2a] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/09/android-barcode-scanner-app-detects-if-a-products-maker-supports-sopa/
> [2b] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/boycott-plus/
> [3] http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main
> [4] http://gun.io/blog/progressjs-political-javascript/
>
> -pat
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