[pp.int.general] About Black March

[Kenneth Peiruza]

Hi Aza,

We published a video-tutorial about using P2P in Pirata.cat's facebook
page some days ago: http://facebook.com/pirata.cat


Regards,

Kenneth

Al 10/02/12 14:53, En/na Aza ha escrit:
> 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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