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  • From: Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz>
  • To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Pirate Pay invites entertainment industry to fund digital attacks on BitTorrent users
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 23:49:00 +1200

Kia ora koutou

Thanks for your thoughts Leigh. In answer to this comment...

"How we can be sure that money gets to the people who made the content
is another question..."

QuestionCopyright.org have come up with a potential solution to this -
the Creator-Endorsed Mark:
http://questioncopyright.org/creator_endorsed

Hei kōnā
Strypey

On 18 May 2012 21:09, Leigh Blackall <leighblackall AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Danyl,
>
> I suspect that with large data, even unlimited data accounts only just
> becoming affordable for more people (here in Australia) that the Torrent
> culture is yet to go mainstream.. hence the dismal quality of discussion in
> the main about P2P as a technology, and file sharing as a potentially
> incredible cultural awareness phenomenon. My own opinions
> here: 
> http://www.leighblackall.com/2012/04/p2p-bittorrent-pirate-bay-and-new.html
>
> Regards
> Leigh
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz>
> wrote:
>>
>> Kia ora koutou
>>
>> Pirate Pay (a Russian company, funded by Microsoft) are offering to
>> disrupt BitTorrent downloads of copyright content, but only if the
>> monopoly-holders pay for the "service":
>>
>> https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-kill-bittorrent-traffic-120513/
>>
>> I've blogged some thoughts on this here:
>> http://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2012/05/17/83/
>>
>> Ngā mihi
>> Strypey
>>
>> --
>> Danyl Strype
>> Community Developer
>> Disintermedia.net.nz/strype
>>
>> "freedom is participation in power.”
>> - Cicero
>>
>> "Allowing the university to be turned into the tool of business is
>> allowing it to be corrupted."
>> - Richard Stallman
>> http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/Stallman.xml
>>
>> "There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one should
>> go hungry any more. That children go hungry, that they will be cold
>> and starving, and uncared for this winter, right here in New York,
>> condemns every fine word said in favor of the current social order by
>> the sock puppets whose fine, well paid job it is to find excuses for
>> it."
>> - Theodor Adorno
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Danyl Strype
Community Developer
Disintermedia.net.nz/strype

"freedom is participation in power.”
- Cicero

"Allowing the university to be turned into the tool of business is
allowing it to be corrupted."
- Richard Stallman
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/Stallman.xml

"There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one should
go hungry any more. That children go hungry, that they will be cold
and starving, and uncared for this winter, right here in New York,
condemns every fine word said in favor of the current social order by
the sock puppets whose fine, well paid job it is to find excuses for
it."
- Theodor Adorno




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