GREEN PIRATE

“Open standards make sense. What makes no sense is that large companies in the field still do not understand this. It is time once and for all to end the pointless nonsense of one document sent on one platform being incomprehensible to the user of another.” — Stephen Fry

This comes right on time after recently getting my Nook Tablet which I promptly had to root before expecting it to function properly. So what is Document Freedom day about?

Quite simply, Document Freedom day is a collective call for open standards from us readers to the ebook publishing industry.

I must say that I am a bit disappointed just now hear of this. Even more so to find that there are no scheduled events in the USA. Nevertheless, I know an awesome cafe here in Austin where I can post some flyers and I also happen to have a blog to tell people they can go to http://documentfreedom.org/ to learn more. How convenient.

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Copyright laws have raised questions about whether they limit our constitutional freedom of speech for, probably, as long as they have been around. In 1788, the US Constitution was ratified. Just two years later, the Copyright Act of 1790 was passed to become the first federal copyright act in United States history.

The copyright debate was, however, on the table during the drafting of the Constitution, which led to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, known as the Copyright Clause which grants Congress the right to grant copyrights and patents which huge, greedy corporations can use to profit while leveraging the court system to easily squash competition and strong-arm the public into using limited channels of distribution. Wait is that really what it said? I thought our founding fathers were smarter than that! Let’s see…

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Notorious rival gang cartels known as MPAA and RIAA which experts believe got it’s start when entertainment producers and lawyers in Hollywood teamed up to find ways of exploiting copyright law to extract money from unwary citizens, have grown into out of control cartels with a sphere of influence reaching as high up as the President of the US and many other leaders of other nations.

These cartels have grown so powerful that they have powers “above the law” so to speak. They can have people incarcerated for publicly indexing hash strings or demand that ICE seizes domains, blocking global access to a website based on an accusation of copyright infringement without requiring an investigation or trial.
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Amelia Andersdotter makes some valid points here. Please notice that she felt strongly enough about this to speak contrary to the position her party had previously announced. Personally, I think such an act is characteristic of a leader who will examine the credence of a given situation, rather than yield to doxa. Living in a time when we hardly expect a politician to be anything more than a pandering sophist, I feel that such a refreshing act deserves a bit of praise. So, great job, Miss Andersdotter! I hope you hold onto this quality and it serves your peers well.

That said, I’ve personally gone back and forth about how I feel about DDoS. It is important to note that this is being used as a means for young people to have their voice heard in a political climate which otherwise ignores or labels them as “politically insensitive.” While they have now demonstrated that this is not true, I really can’t find justification for making a criminal of a 16 year old net activist.
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Sex in the Pink, a blog that was just published on baywords (blog host dedicated to free & uncensored hosting), has announced a new project. Freedom Porn is a project dedicated to delivering amateur pornography under Creative Commons licensing in the endeavor to raise awareness of sex related issues across the spectrum.
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Telecomix has created a free DNS for you to use as part of their ongoing quest to preserve our free internet.

Why use this?
Let’s say you live in a country where the government is mostly run by coin-operated MAFIAA bots.
Suppose, through some fluke, a bill is passed to allow this government to blacklist websites on a whim. Suddenly, you find that you can no longer view some of your favorite sites. Or worse… you find that your own site has been blacklisted for excess badassery!

What do you do hot shot!? What… do… you… do?

This is what you do (or tweet out to your visitors):

1. Go to your router’s admin settings by entering the internal IP in your browser.
2. Copy your router’s current DNS settings (in case of fail, break glass) and replace with 91.191.136.152 and 85.229.85.109
3. Visit http://dns.tcx/ to confirm that you are now using the Telecomix DNS. You may need to reboot first.
4. Commence with uncensored fapping.

That’s right! You will now have access to TLD that you couldn’t reach before.
Can you see this? I can. =)

Now nothing can come between you and your hikikimori ways. Also, butts.