Morlock Elloi | 2 Feb 19:27
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Re: The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage

It is true that buzzwords themselves do not guarantee content-free texts. What
are buzzwords anyway? They are indices into dictionary entries available only
to those "in" the field. Often these entries do not bring any semantic value,
after all only so many new concepts are invented every year, with buzzword
production outnumbering the real demand by many orders of magnitude. Their only
use is to certify that you've been there. Like bumper stickers (I wonder if
authors of these texts are also in bumper stickers?)

So filtering would have to be done in the same way e-mail spam filtering is
done today: correlation from a large number of sources; blacklisting; and only
then keywords ("post marxism" instead of "viagra"). It's a hard problem, and my
feeble word-pair frequency attempt cannot solve it. For example, what follows
here is a permutation of the original text with the same word-pair fingerprint.
Does it have more, less or the same content as the original? (It definitely is
more original :-)

== start ==

Against the digital culture in our wallet

A closer Bataille is vast but also the same excess, of digitalism.
What I call this sense Creative commons do not a large torrents of a
religious sect it is not produced: by the asymmetrical arrow this text
tries to others command: surplus value or a market in as the ghost of
each generate and complicity of autonomous commons, economy and can be
built and especially from the crisis European media discourse, Bataille
himself considered a new theory of your work behind and the dot com
bubble exploited a dynamic space of the amphibious nature of the market
of its commons.

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Rob Dyke | 3 Feb 17:57

Re: The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage

"By slogan: in other words, by only learning the links, those keywords the
grasp of which is anyway sufficient to spell out your allegiances to a
certain ???movement??? (I don???t wish to use the word ???ideology??? here,
which is too loaded with negative meaning). Keywords such as alterity,
autonomy,biopower, bodies, communication, communism, corruption, desire,
deterritorialization, discipline, desertion, empire, exodus, hybridization,
immanence, multitude, etc. This listing is obviously not a complete one and
its compiling ??? in alphabetical order, no less ??? is not of my making:
the index at the end of the volume reflects a far from conventional choice,
including names and keywords. As such, it is yet another tool for the
hypertextual reading of the book (here???s a useful hint for all those who
should choose to use Empire ???by slogan???: in the index, the nested terms
are in effect also all the strategic keywords you need)."

Perhaps a filter/indicator/predictor of tendency towards / allegiances to a
certain movement?

Rob

(i)Maria Turchetto, The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri, Historical
Materialism, volume 11:1 (23???36) ?? Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2003,
Also available online ??? www.brill.nl

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On 30/01/2008, ruth weismann <weismann.ruth@...> wrote:
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Alex Foti | 4 Feb 19:09
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Fwd: IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay

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From: nikolaj heltoft <nikolaj.heltoft@...>
Date: 2008/2/4
Subject: IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay
To: Alex Foti <alex.foti@...>

IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay Written by Ernesto on
February 04, 2008

The battle between the IFPI and the Pirate Bay continues. A Danish
court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP "Tele2?$B!m
(DMT2-Tele2) to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker.
The Pirate Bay, currently ranked 28th in the list of most visited
sites in Denmark, is working on countermeasures.

The court case was initiated by the IFPI - the infamous anti-piracy
organization that represents the recording industry - and plans to
force other ISPs to do the same. However, The Pirate Bay is determined
to fight back, as usual.

The Pirate Bay team has already asked other BitTorrent admins to stand
up against the IFPI lobby, and arranged a meeting with Tele2 to
discuss the current events. Pirate Bay co-founder Brokep told
TorrentFreak in a response: "I hope the torrent community understands
what this will do to Danish people. It will also act as a very bad
precedent for the European Union, and I hope everybody will fight
this."

At the moment, The Pirate Bay team is registering new (Danish)
domains, to make sure people can still download .torrent files from
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post-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies


As a follow up to the recent conversations about the semantic web I 
wanted to point to a discussion on a W3C mailing list:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-dev/2008JanMar/0066.html

Jeremy Carroll is a co-author of various core specifications for the 
semantic web.

reto

Rasmus Fleischer | 5 Feb 11:51
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on IFPI, "ISP Responsibility" and indexing the grey zones


Pretty much related to the current developments in Denmark. Here's a
short talk i gave last Friday, at Transmediale in Berlin in a panel
led by Felix Stalder, titled "The Greying Of The Commons: IP, The Law
And The Street".

- - -

Yesterday [Jan 31, 2008], the Swedish prosecutor finally had to
get his case against The Pirate Bay to court. The operators of the
bittorrent tracker are *not* accused for any handling of copyrighted
material, but with "conspiracy to breach copyright", by letting others
use their service to exchange any kind of files between their hard
drives. In short, the supposed crime of The Pirate Bay consists in
*indexing* and *linking*.

One interesting contrast is the German company RapidShare, which is
running a site with even more visitors than The Pirate Bay. Their
business model is to let users upload files to their service ? we're
here talking about several petabytes of unauthorized copies ? and then
let other users pay for unlimited downloads of it. Yet, there has
been no police raids against RapidShare. Is this because RapidShare
technically is the exact opposite of The Pirate Bay? While The Pirate
Bay is a large centralised index, pointing at a decentralised archive,
RapidShare is a large centralised archive with no public index and no
search function, leaving it to the users to build small decentralised
indexes by posting links in web forums and private chatrooms. Another
difference is of course that RapidShare makes no political statements.
They remove files on notice from copyright holders, who however never
can find all "their" material as they at any given time can't access
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Kevin Kelly: Better Than Free

Rasmus Fleischer wrote:

> The answers to the questions posed by the digital, can not be found
> within the digital. They are only to be found in the relation to what
> is *not* digital: Time. Space. Relationships between human beings.
> That's where digital copies may get a value.

Better Than Free
Kevin Kelly, 2.5.08

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly08/kelly08_index.html

The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies 
every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon 
it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, 
the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied 
along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling 
equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever 
produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus 
run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the 
machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.

Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow 
with as little friction as possible. Indeed, copies flow so freely we 
could think of the internet as a super-distribution system, where once a 
copy is introduced it will continue to flow through the network forever, 
much like electricity in a superconductive wire. We see evidence of this 
in real life. Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact 
with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog 
knows you can't erase something once its flowed on the internet.
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Frederick_Noronha | 6 Feb 09:59

ASIACOMMONS: A find: some interesting links from the Philippines...


* Philippine Commons
  http://philippinecommons.org/

* CC Newsletter #5 (Philippines)
  http://philippinecommons.org/downloads/ccnewsletter5.pdf

* Introducing Lisa Diy :: a judge and singer
  http://philippinecommons.org/2008/01/18/introducing-lisa-diy/

* Bayanihan Books
  Libro para sa bawat batang Pilipino
  http://blog.bayanihanbooks.org/

* www.soriano-ph.com
  all about life, law, politics and cyberspace
  The author is the Legal Project Lead of Creative
  Commons - Philippines and is working on the
  project with the e-Law Center (where he serves
  as Executive Director) of the Arellano University
  School of Law. This page is about Creative
  Commons and the activities of
  Creative Commons Philippines.
  http://soriano-ph.com/cyberkiosk/the-creative-commons-philippines/

* CC-PH mailing list, click:
  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-ph

* Draft license - Creative Commons Philippines
  http://draftccphil.notlong.com
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Patrice Riemens | 6 Feb 11:33
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Re: Daniel Barenboim: Israeli and Palestinian (IHT)


I think Daniel Barenboim speech is yet another very worthwhile (and worth 
reading) contribution to the decrispation of the Israel-Palestine 
stalemate, based on the acceptance of the 'Other', and her right to be 
there.

Cheers from Coulanges sur Yonne,
patrizio & Diiiinooos!

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Original to International Herald Tribune:
http://tinyurl.com/ypjgyd 

Israeli and Palestinian 
By Daniel Barenboim

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

BERLIN: I have often made the statement that the destinies of the Israeli 
and Palestinian people are inextricably linked and that there is no 
military solution to the conflict. My recent acceptance of Palestinian 
nationality has given me the opportunity to demonstrate this more 
tangibly.

When my family moved to Israel from Argentina in the 1950s, one of my
parents' intentions was to spare me the experience of growing up as
part of a minority - a Jewish minority. They wanted to me to grow up
as part of a majority - a Jewish majority.

The tragedy of this is that my generation, despite having been
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Forest Gregg | 8 Feb 17:17

Re: The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage

Here's what George Orwell had to say about it, in 1946:

One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected
with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some
improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your
English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot
speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark
its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language --
and with variations this is true of all political parties, from
Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least
change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one
jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some
jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable
inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it
belongs.

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

-Forest

On Feb 3, 2008 11:57 AM, Rob Dyke <robdyke@...> wrote:

> "By slogan: in other words, by only learning the links, those keywords the
> grasp of which is anyway sufficient to spell out your allegiances to a
> certain ???movement??? (I don???t wish to use the word ???ideology??? here,
 <...>

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Alex Foti | 7 Feb 10:41
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Euromayday 008 in Aachen: Anarchosocial vs Cathonational Europe!!


in aachen on mayday, which this year coincides with christiandemocrat
ascension day, sarkozy and merkel will receive karlspreis as
europe's foremost securitarians. Liège mayday, in conjunction with
Aachen activists, is calling all maydayers in the region (belgium,
netherlands, rhineland, est français) and all transnationalists in
the network to participate in a special euromayday of protest and
agitation of all precarious and migrants vs the european diarchy.

mayday! mayday!

in aquisgrana il primo maggio, che quest'anno concide con
l'ascensione, sarko e angie si beccano il premio carlomagno.
euromayday è pronto a guastare la festa alla diarchia securitaria.
liegi, aachen e altri gruppi regionali hanno convocato una speciale
euromayday parade allo scopo...

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Date: Feb 6, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: [Euromayday] Euromayday Aachen 2008 vs Precaria verbo regis
To: euromayday@...

Salut les précaires rebelles
voici un petit message le l'assemlée euromayday-Liege
avant la réunion de Berlin.

(see below for an artisanal translation in English)

Euromayday Aachen 2008 vs Precaria verbo regis
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Gmane