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lotu5 | 1 Mar 2006 01:46
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Re: a letter to the editor

Florian Cramer wrote:

> Multiculturalism is misguided when it makes concessions on those
> grounds and embraces reactionary demands just because they come from a
> minority culture.

I think a fundamental misunderstanding is demonstrated by your use of
the word "multiculturalism". I would argue against the publication of
the muhammed cartoons from an anti-racist standpoint that is not based
on the fallacy that we are all equal, but is based on the pragmatic
understanding of 500+ years of genocide and colonialism that have to be
accounted for before there can be any peace.

> Concepts like "free media" are cheap, or rather: worth nothing when you
> grant them only to the people whose political views you share.

Which is exactly the problem here. There is no "free media". Ask the
indymedia centers who've had their servers stolen, or ask sherman austin
why he spent a year in jail or ask the shac 7 why they're on trial. To
hide behind the sham of a free media is to ignore the very real media
censorshi that happens every day in the us and abroad.

Brian Holmes wrote:

> The point made very early on in this discussion by Louise Moanna
> Kolff, namely that Danish society has become overtly racist, is not
> a minor point. It is the real context from which the entire
> discussion springs.

I found this today on the SaveOurState.org forum, a forum for minutemen
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Soenke Zehle [c] | 1 Mar 2006 11:17
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Gehring on Lenovo's Move to Combine TC and Biometrics

Update from Indicare on the Lenovo move to combine TC and biometrics, Soenke

Trusted computing for digital rights management
By: Robert A. Gehring, Computers and Society, TU Berlin, Germany on:
01/03/06 [10:52] (6 reads)

Abstract: The relationship between trusted computing (TC) systems and
digital rights management (DRM) systems is discussed. Trusted systems
technology was developed in the 1960s, while the modern concept of DRM
is a brainchild of the Internet era of the 1990s. While TC technology
can be used to build DRM systems, both belong to different categories
and should not be confused. TC technology may as well be deployed to
protect "darknets" (Biddle et al. 2003) for sharing data. Making
TC-based "copyright boxes" (Stefik 1999) is by no means a guarantee for
business success in marketing digital content where consumer demand is
ignored.

Keywords: technical analysis consumer expectations, copyright boxes,
darknets, DRMS, trusted computing, trusted systems
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Introduction

First things first. No, trusted computing (TC) is not the same as
digital rights management (DRM). DRM technology has been built, and will
be built in the future, entirely without relying on TC support. And yes,
DRM can be based on TC technology, as Chinese PC maker Lenovo has just
demonstrated (cf. Dornan 2006).

According to Information Week, Lenovo's latest ThinkPad model uses a
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Seth Johnson | 2 Mar 2006 14:34
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WIPO Broadcaster's Treaty: Important Statement to Review for Signing


Hello folks,

Please review the important joint statement below, related to the
WIPO Broadcaster's Treaty, and consider adding your signature if
you are an American citizen.  Also make sure those you know who
should sign are also given the opportunity.

Andy Oram has written a good letter to the US Delegation to WIPO
on the subject:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/01/13/the-problem-with-webcasting.html?page=2

CPTech Links on the Treaty:
> http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/index.html#Coments
Electronic Frontier Foundation Links:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/broadcasting_treaty/
IP Justice Links:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/broadcasters.shtml
Union for the Public Domain Links:
> http://www.public-domain.org/?q=node/47

The Latest Draft of the Treaty:
> http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/sccr12.2rev2.doc

A survey of relevant links:
> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/wipo_and_the_war_against_the_i.html

If you choose to sign, please send your name along with an
affiliation or appropriate short phrase to attach to your name
for identification purposes, to mailto:seth.p.johnson@...
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Mark Dery | 4 Mar 2006 23:45
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Re: Netbase (1995-2006)


I (belatedly) second that emotion. Under the inspired guidance of Konrad Becker
and Marie Ringler, Netbase was a hothouse for the culturing of strange new
intellectual flora. Even better, it was located in Vienna, where the Freudian
Uncanny seemed to wait around every corner. The time I lectured there, I was able
to visit the incomparable Narrenturm (a museum of pathological anatomy, at
http://www.pathomus.or.at/frameset.htm), the mind-boggling Josephinum (with its
wax obstetric mannequins), the museum of crime, the museum of undertaking, and,
wonder of wonders, the museum of electrical deaths (attached to the
electrotechnical institute)---the equivalent, in a day or two, of a year spent in
any American university. Only in Vienna! Can it be mere coincidence that Konrad
bore a striking resemblance to _Caligari_'s Cesar the somnambulist, as drawn by
Emil Nolde? A beacon for contrarian thought, Netbase was blessedly free of the
soul-crushing political correctness and soul-killing humorlessness that afflicts
so many new-media spaces. Now, as the Stalinist left and the culture-of-life
right, the neo-Orwellian neocons and the jihadi stand united in their dedication
to smothering free thought and stifling free expression everywhere, we need a
Netbase more than ever.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Holmes
  To: nettime-l@...
  Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:07 AM
  Subject: Re: <nettime> Netbase (1995-2006)

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nettime's_roving_reporter | 4 Mar 2006 13:10

Kieren McCarthy: ICANN signs own death warrant

     [via <tbyfield@...>]

< http://www.kierenmccarthy.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/3/1/1789591.html >

   ICANN approves dotcom contract, signs own death warrant

   by Kieren on Wed 01 Mar 2006 11:11 AM GMT  |  [35]Permanent Link

   I have been determinedly trying not to write any news stories so I can
   get on with writing the Sex.com book but I got a phonecall very early
   this morning from the spokesman for ICANN explaining that late last
   night the Board had approved the new contract for the dotcom registry.

   "Were there any changes made to it?" I asked.

   "Ummm, no," he replied.

   So that's how I first heard of ICANN's impending death.

   In fact, before I even go into the contract and what is means, I think
   it's worth pointing out that I also sent a series of emails to a
   number of ICANN Board members exactly a month ago. In each I explained
   that I was "putting the questions to you which, through past
   experience of these things, I will be asking anyway in a month's
   time".

   The basic email was the same each time:
     _________________________________________________________________

   The revised VeriSign contract still has alot of elements that large
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events | 7 Mar 2006 21:00

[THE THING] EVENT : Christoph Spehr Screening Friday, March 10


     [The Thing has, of course, graciously hosted the nettime-l
      list since July 1999, so support is very much appreciated.
      -- mod (tb)]

Friday, March 10 at 8 pm
The Thing Swing Space
125 Maiden Lane, 10th Floor
New York, NY
(two blocks south of Fulton between Water and Pearl. Subway: 6 to Brooklyn
Bridge, City Hall; A,C,J,M,Z and 2,3,4,5 to Fulton, Broadway, Nassau)

On Rules and Monsters
Free Cooperation: Political Theory for Godzilla & Co.

Video Screening and Discussion (with Christoph Spehr in person!)
Introduction: Trebor Scholz

Why the hell does every monster want to go to Tokyo and stamp on it? Why
do we feel sorry if the monster gets shot at the end? Why does it always
return? These and other questions that are highly relevant to every
first grade or post-doc monster are dealt with in the video “On Rules
and Monsters - An Introduction to Free Cooperation”. German political
theorist, cultural critic and video maker Christoph Spehr presents his
video, with Tony Conrad and Stephanie Rothenberg starring as speakers
and appearances by Godzilla, Gwangi, the Creature from the Black Lagoon
and many more, along with his new video “Hold On, Wilson - Of Islands
and Utopia”.

Free Entrance, bring a photo ID to present to the lobby attendent
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Paul D. Miller | 9 Mar 2006 19:44
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Censoring Boing Boing: A Case in point

One of the things that always makes one chuckle is the subtle way 
that we've probably moved into a far more totalitarian world than the 
Soviets could have imagined in their wildest dreams. The internet was 
made to withstand nuclear war, but it can barely hold its own in the 
face of politics!

Paul

By XENI JARDIN
Published: March 9, 2006

AMERICAN technology firms are taking heat from the public and 
Congress for helping China's government police the Internet. But this 
controversy extends well beyond China and the so-called Internet Gang 
of Four: Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft. Just how many American 
companies are complicit hit home for me last month when dozens of 
readers of BoingBoing.net e-mailed us to say they had been suddenly 
denied access.
Luba Lukova

The cause was SmartFilter, a product from a Silicon Valley company, 
Secure Computing. A recent update to the nannyware's list of no-no 
sites had started blocking our site as containing "nudity." This is 
absurd: a visit to BoingBoing might yield posts about iPod-shaped 
cakes and spaceship blueprints, but not pornography. SmartFilter's 
data managers later told us that even thumbnails of Michelangelo's 
"David" could land a site on the forbidden "nudity" list.

Many of our locked-out readers were trying to view BoingBoing from 
libraries, schools and their workplaces. That is regrettable but not
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Ronda Hauben | 11 Mar 2006 18:19

About French demonstrations against the new labor law?


I heard for the first time last night that there have been big
demonstrations in France against the passage of the new labor
law which will make it possible for people under 26 years of age
to be fired without reason.

This would seem to give encouragement to employers to terminate
older workers as well as it will encourage harsh treatment toward
younger workers.

The government ending the occupation of the Sorbonne seems to be
a provocation of sorts to the growing movementing against the new
labor law.

It would be good to know more about what is happening if others on
nettime have been following these events.

cheers

ronda
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marcelo | 12 Mar 2006 20:37

trial mediaset vs. telestreet postponed

the trial against the authors of "telestreet" in italy has been postponed
until 20th march - sorry we didnt have time to translate the document into
english yet, we will try in the next few days but i guess it is urgent
news so i forward it in italian...

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La decisione sulla querela che Mediaset ha sporto contro gli autori del
libro "Telestreet macchina immaginativa non omologata" è stata rinviata al
20 marzo.

Alcuni mi hanno chiesto di dare più informazioni sui contenuti dell'accusa
che ci viene rivolta. Lo faccio qui sotto, sinteticamente.

Qualche tempo fa io, Giancarlo Vitali e Marco Jacquemet abbiamo ricevuto
una comunicazione giudiziaria. Ritenendo gravemente lesi i suoi interessi,
Mediaset ci ha querelati insieme all'editore del libro. Il 20 marzo un
magistrato valuterà se archiviare la questione o darle seguito e spedirci
in tribunale per diffamazione a mezzo stampa. Ma al di là delle conseguenze
che questa vicenda avrà per gli autori di questo libro, è inquietante il
fatto che l'espressione del pensiero venga perseguita penalmente da
un'azienda che possiede tre televisioni e occupa il vertice del potere
politico da cinque anni. Perciò vale la pena ascoltare le ragioni degli
accusatori, per capire cosa hanno in serbo per tutti noi, se il 9 aprile e
dopo non saremo capaci di metterli in condizione di non nuocere.

Dicono gli accusatori: "Mediaset è società quotata in borsa ed è impresa
leader nel settore della comunicazione. Per una società di tali
caratteristiche la reputazione e l'immagine in senso lato rappresentano al
tempo stesso patrimonio e fonte di reddito. Pertanto il discredito gettato
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Tatiana Bazzichelli | 12 Mar 2006 21:28
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Hack.it.art - Experimental Video

hack.it.art - Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy
January 15th-February 27th 2005
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

HACK.IT.ART
experimental video

video by: Florian Cramer

where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
when: January 14th, 2005

Free Download:

http://data.plaintext.cc/what_the_hack_it_art.avi
[Xvid, 34 MB, very good quality, plays on Linux; on Windows and Mac if
the Xvid-Codec is installed, or if people use free media players like
vlc]

http://data.plaintext.cc/what_the_hack_it_art.mov
[Quicktime/MPEG-4, 34 MB, good quality; plays back on Windows and Mac
with Quicktime Player, or on Linux with recent versions of
ffmpeg/mplayer/xine/vlc.]

Hack.it.art has been an exhibition and event about hacktivism in Italy: 
an alternative and independent way of producing information, art and 
networking culture. The exhibition has shown this widespread phenomenon 
and presented to the German public the multitude of Italian media and 
net activism.
This is an experimental video of the opening, made by Florian Cramer.
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