Denis Moschitto, Evrim Sen: Hackerland: Das Logbuch der Szene (2001) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · germany, hacker culture, hacking, piracy, software
Eine Mischung aus Reportage und Sachbuch macht Hackerland zu einer spannenden Lektüre. Die beiden jungen Autoren beschreiben den Grenzbereich zwischen Legalität und kriminellen Handlungen der Szene, in der sie sich selbst seit mehreren Jahren bewegen.
Das Buch setzt gegen immer noch gängige Klischees über Hacker zum ersten Mal den Schwerpunkt auf die Entwicklung der legalen und illegalen Szene. Über die Geschichte der Raubkopierer und des Crackens werden Begriffe und Zusammenhänge erklärt, und in die geheime Welt der Szene eingeführt.
Der Mythos Hacker wird aufgelöst und ersetzt durch eine Generation von Computerfanatikern, die in Wettkämpfen und auf Parties nur ein Ziel haben: Hauptsache Spaß. Doch werden auch Namen aktiver Personen der illegalen Szene und Verbindungen aufgedeckt, die noch nie an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt sind.
Publisher Tropen, 2001
Edition 3
ISBN 3932170296, 9783932170294
165 pages
Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite: Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, business, copyright, economics, intellectual property, knowledge economy, law, piracy, politics, TRIPS, wto
New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other information, creating a global property order dominated by a multinational elite. How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization’s free trade agreements? How have these rules changed the knowledge game for international business? What are the consequences for the ownership of biotechnology and digital technology, and for all those who have to pay for what was once shared information? Based on extensive interviews with key players, this book tells the story of these profound transformations in information ownership. The authors argue that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, and shows how intellectual property rights can be more democratically defined.
Publisher Earthscan, 2002
ISBN 1853839175, 9781853839177
253 pages
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Comment (0)Christian Engström MEP, Rick Falkvinge: The Case for Copyright Reform (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · acta, copyright, drm, eu, filesharing, free speech, information society, piracy, pirate party, politics, sampling
Legalized file sharing, shorter protection times for the commercial copyright monopoly, free sampling and a ban on DRM.
These are the main points of the proposal for copyright reform that the Pirate Party is advocating and which the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament adopted as its group position in September 2011.
This is a constructive alternative to the controversial ACTA agreement and to the criminalization of the entire generation of youths. This booklet explains why such a reform is both necessary and sustainable and will benefit both citizens and artists.
Published by Pirate MEP Christian Engström with support from the Greens/EFA-group in the European Parliament, 17 April 2012
Creative Commons CC0 license
ISBN 9781471671784
108 pages
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