jueves, 19 de enero de 2012

The Pirate Bay Slams PIPA / SOPA in Public Statement

(Vale la pena socializarlo)
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If either PIPA or SOPA passes The Pirate Bay is expected to be one of their prime targets.

While this would have most site operators worried, The Pirate Bay is not concerned.

Unlike others, the largest torrent site is not blacking out today. However, the Pirate Bay team did just release a public statement where they slam the copyright industry. They also reiterate that the two bills are not going to stop the site anytime soon.

Although we usually don’t re-post public statements in full, we feel that an exception can be made today.

—TPB on SOPA/PIPA

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edison’s patents it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American East Coast. The movie studios therefore relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there were no patents. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them – like Fantasia, one of Disney’s biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other people’s creative works, without paying for them. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations – it’s all based on being able to re-use other people’s creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide by their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other people’s rules.

The reason they are always complaining about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between each other, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existence in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.

And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for Freedom of Speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe – but we’ve stayed out of the USA. We have Swedish roots and a Swedish friend said this: The word SOPA means “trash” in Swedish. The word PIPA means “a pipe” in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence. They want to make the internet into a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the rest of us obedient consumers. The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you’ll learn that noone wants to be fed with trash. Why the US government want the American people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that you will stop them, before we all drown.

SOPA can’t do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we’ll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really. To fix the “problem of piracy” one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they’re creating “culture” but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and TV shows that make them think that they’re fat.

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the World. One of the most powerful ones is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he’s complaining that Google is the biggest source of piracy in the world – because he’s jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you’d get a more honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can’t access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We’re sorry for that.
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miércoles, 18 de enero de 2012

Bambino: por ti y por nosotros

"Aquella noche prendía el aire como un desgarro, aquel "tablao" se encendía con tan sólo tú mirarlo.
Cerró una ovación de flores, encarnadas y bermejas, y hasta joyas arrojaban mientras brindaban desde una mesa como quien sin tener nada entre jaleos su aliento deja. Y el sol se hundía en su letargo, y la noche despertaba: yo era un chiquillo y, sin embargo, mi corazón retumbaba cuando Bambino cantaba la rumba del sabor amargo.

Si pudiera convertirse en un regalo el amor escogería la forma de una joya o de una flor. No busques nada más bello: no existe. No tengas duda, pues las cosas más hermosas son para siempre o apenas duran...pues las cosas más hermosas son para siempre o apenas duran. Y el sol se hundía en su letargo, y la noche despertaba: yo era un chiquillo y, sin embargo, mi corazón retumbaba cuando Bambino cantaba la rumba del sabor amargo.

Y aquella noche, que el duende lo invocó un ángel gitano, se hizo cielo el infierno y al tocar por arrebato lo efímero con lo eterno, entre palmas, se rozaron. Y el sol se hundía en su letargo, y la noche despertaba, yo era un chiquillo y, sin embargo, mi corazón retumbaba cuando Bambino cantaba la rumba del sabor amargo.

De tan a gusto que bebo, de tanto apurar el vaso. De tan a gusto que bebo: de dar los tragos tan largos, termino bebiendo el poso y se me queda un sabor amargo." NV

lunes, 9 de enero de 2012

Día memorable

Este debe ser uno de los días más importantes de lo que va del año. Acabo de desbloquear mi contraseña de la mac sin problemas con un tutorial pirata desde internet, además instalé linux en mi computador del trabajo para empezar a formar parte de los programadores 2.0 y hechar progresivamente al caño los productos windows. 

También caché los tiempos con la buseta del trabajín para no andar gastando dinero en vano entre buses y taxis compartidos hasta Cumbia-york. Luego, contacté a don Davingui y el miércoles tendré muchos muchos pasteles pa' divertirme el fin de semana y empezar esta tradición y maratones de series nocturnas los viernes/sábados...y para terminar el día como se debe, hay arroz relleno con salsa de tomate y tiene muchos muchos hongos acompañando la situación. Waaaa. Qué bella noche!

jueves, 5 de enero de 2012

Guns N' Roses - November Rain

¿Alguien me podría decir cómo carajos y por qué se muere la novia?

Intenciones de nuevo año

Lectura:
- 3 novelas
- 3 cuentos
- 2 académicos
- 3 ciencia ficción
Escritura:
- el libro que desde el 2008 está en pausa
Audiovisual:
- asistir al menos a 30 funciones de Nawi y a la mitad de los festivales
Personal:
- cerrar círculos de forma definitiva
- 2 buenos amigos nuevos
- amar y ser amado
- asistir/llamar a/en todos los cumpleaños familiares
- ir al cine 1 vez cada 3 meses con los chamos
- pasar el cumpleaños en París (o el verano)
- tomar más vino que cerveza
- comprar un tocadiscos o componer el maltrecho
- llevar una agenda y archivar todos los gastos
- ponerme al día con la ley tributaria
- ordenar las etiquetas de este y los demás blogs
- tomar más fotografías "artísticas"
- ordenar y forrar el album de recortes 2011 y 2012
Laboral:
- terminar el año con los objetivos plantados
- encontrar un sucesor y renunciar a fin de año para un nuevo proyecto
Profesional:
- darle vida a la ecoescuela (personería jurídica, documentación de los procesos, organización)
- buscar la maestría, validando el título primero, en lo posible a miles de kilómetros de aquí
- empezar a estudiar el arte de dar masajes (ojo!)
Espiritual:
- sabiduría y meditación (hacer yoga)
- dejar los vicios de forma intermitente pero rigurosa
- decir/intentar-decir la verdad el 80% de veces (contabilizar o documentar los éxitos y fracasos para determinar el porcentaje real)

Eso.