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Pirate Copyright Actions Should Lessen in 2013-& Predictions

While there have been nice flares of light in the past – every success of a Pirate Party comes to mind, where all other politicians suddenly compete in who’s the better critic of the copyright monopoly – those flares of 2009 and 2011 have still been flares of light, and not game-changing events. Not yet.





But 2012 saw two major such events, in addition to many minor ones. There was the SOPA defeat on January 18, and there was the ACTA defeat on July 4. These were slightly different in nature.

The SOPA defeat in the USA was caused by a purely grassroots effort to put pressure on the US Congress from the outside. The ACTA defeat in Europe, meanwhile, could not have succeeded without two-pronged pressure: where the SOPA battle mainly played out online and in phone calls in one-directional pressure against Congress, the ACTA battle was fought in the streets, with huge coordinated protests in 200-plus European cities.

Still, that would not have been enough if there hadn’t been people on the inside of the European Parliament to explain to other Members of Parliament why European people were protesting – so the Pirate Party presence in the European Parliament was pivotal, being one of many ingredients not sufficient on their own, but absolutely necessary for the whole of the ultimate success in defeating ACTA.

Regardless, these events were game-changers in that politicians have learned that when the internet raises its voice and tells them in no uncertain terms to STFU & STFD, their knees tremble. They do not understand yet what it is they do not understand. They do not understand the fundamentally bad assumptions about the copyright monopoly that still shape policy (faulty assumptions like the monopoly being incentivizing creativity, or worse, being related to property rights and a component of free trade).

For as we recall, both SOPA and ACTA were practically done deals. They were seen as completely uncontroversial by the politicians and were mere formalities, until the internet spoke up.

The next step, of course, would be to learn that it isn’t “the Internet” speaking up, but a whole generation of citizens – voters – that demand something as basic as their civil liberties to apply just as much online as they do offline.
For who was it that wanted ACTA and SOPA so badly?

It was the copyright industry, in their long-running quest to have their business interests take legal precedence over fundamental civil liberties.
The copyright industry has long been a proponent for increased surveillance, particularly of the warrantless kind, as privacy and freedom of speech is fundamentally incpmpatible with enforcement of the copyright monopoly.
At the same time, the administrations around the world are cherishing the liberating aspects of the net with one voice – but only when it happens to other countries. In their own country, it is a threat to the status quo – meaning, to themselves.

In Sweden, for example, the administration is wasting no time in applauding the importance of the net in freeing dictatorships from oppression, all while the Swedish so-called fra Law has changed the rules of privacy from being a fundamental right to the axiom “you are always wiretapped”, effectively negating any whistleblower protections and other freedoms of the press.
Other countries see similar patterns.

Overall, net liberty seems to consistently be near the top of the foreign policy agenda for every country, but never anywhere on the domestic policy agenda. This exact relation needs to reverse.

So what would be things to look out for in 2013?

Things should be quietening down somewhat in the European bureaucracy, as the election cycle comes to a close. Still, there are many bilateral so-called “free trade” agreements that try to lock in monopolies at the cost of civil liberties, and these happen in just as much secrecy as ACTA did.
Speaking of monopoly agreements, the TPP – Trans-Pacific Partnership– should be a major cause for concern.
But if all of these are causes for concern – and they are, as laws are still being made the wrong way – I’m still very optimistic.

While the laws being made on net liberty and monopolies are still bad – we have not managed as activists to cause any good things to happen, merely managed to prevent some bad things from happening – understanding of net liberty principles are rapidly increasing, and may be hitting a tipping point.

More and more people realize, against the tenacious deceptive talking points of the copyright industry, that the copyright monopoly is not related to property rights at all but is a governmentally-sanctioned private monopoly that limits property rights and free trade.

So what do I predict for 2013?

I predict that more politicians will realize the shameless abyss of lies coming from the copyright industry, and that civil liberties should be as readily defended online as offline – that there should be no legal or practical difference in civil liberties whether you communicate with an analog letter or a digital one.

I predict that there will be at least one game-changing event which could not have been predicted beforehand, which shifts the playing field heavily against the copyright industry and in favor of civil liberties.

I predict that the laws being made will continue to be bad, and that surveillance will continue to increase, but that more people will start to question that – perhaps approaching, but not yet arriving at a tipping point where good policy starts being made instead.

Above all, I predict that we have much hard work still ahead of us, but that it will all be worth our while in the end.
So for 2013, remember two soundbites on making good policy:

Sharing is caring, and prosperity begins at a hundred megabit.

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Top 12 File-Sharing & Copyright Events of 2012

Posted: 31 Dec 2012

This is a guest article from SearchFreak, an Internet engineer and chief executive of an Internet business that provides services to millions of users.

This past year has been most eventful. You can say many things about the sharing world, but you can’t say life is boring here.

And, as our calendar year is close to its end, I’m thinking back on some of the important events that happened this year:

1. The year, of course, started off with fireworks: the Megaupload shutdown, an operation that used at least as much force and international resources as the attack on Bin Laden.

And there have been interesting developments throughout the year. Especially the scandal in New Zealand, where the PM apologized to Dotcom.

2. Also in January, the internet flexed its muscle to stop SOPA. Firefox, Wikipedia, Google and WordPress were among the major contributors to the operation. Many called this event “the coming of age of the internet”. And it was the internet corporations’ first major political win.

3. Usenet has been very present in the news, with many operators having to shut down, following multiple types of pressure.

And we found out that one of the top anti-piracy organizations used to be a Usenet operator. Changing sides is easy when it’s only about the money.

4. US Thanksgiving brought us a nice surprise: the Republican’s Study Committee published a great Policy Brief on copyright reform. Then they withdrew it. But those shared ideas will remain forever in our minds(and our hard drives).

5. We’ve heard news from the future. A decentralized BitTorrent network named Tribler. Those Dutch are always up to something good. And then we heard about RetroShare.

6. In April, UK ISP’s were ordered to block multiple websites. Throughout the year, multiple local instances of MPAA/RIAA worked to obtain similar measures in courts.
And then general and specific proxies made the blocks irrelevant.

7. In April, ISP iiNET won over AFACT in Australia. ISPs are not liable for what their users do.

8. In July, in Europe, ACTA was declared dead by the EU Parliament vote. This happened after many citizens went to the streets in a plurality of cities around Europe. Seeing citizens take responsibility and action for their future freedoms is a great moment.

9. Also in July, Google launched its transparency report.

Then things went exponential and close to 4 million search results get delisted each week at this moment.

10. In August, the US Gov returned Rojadirecta’s domain name (after 18 months).

11. Universal, the horrible music label that killed many startups including the YouTube alternative Veoh, sued Grooveshark. Grooveshark v. Universal.

12. Demonoid and several other important bittorrent sites shut down.

So, all in all, for all the drama and events, not much has changed. Some sites are gone, some sites are new, but business goes on as usual in the file sharing world.

And we’ve seen a glimpse of the future. And that future looks encrypted.
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