[pp.int.general] About Black March

[Aza]

Nice!!! Thanks.

aza
2012/2/10 Kenneth Peiruza <kenneth at pirata.cat>:
> 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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