Summary/Overview "Copyright in the 21st century"

All the buzz about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and Megaupload has brought the topic copyright on the screens of many people, who probably haven't been aware of that issue before. On Neunetz.com (which happens to be a good blog for all things internet) you can now find a profound summary about copyright and filesharing in the 21st century. 

Marcel Weiss, the author of neunetz.com, is writing about copyright issues since 2007, and you can be sure that he knows what's up. The summary is great for everybody who's just beginnnig to show interest in this topic. Unfortunately, it is written in German, although I think there's a large audience of non-German people and artists (especially in the music-scene in Berlin) which could be interested in those informations too, as they have to deal with it when releasing music over here. 
Therefor, I might translate the most important parts step by step, and publish them on this blog. Let me know If you are one of those readers, it might speed up the progress.

Until then, here's the link to the Summary on Neunetz.com!

ACTA Infografik

For the win / Makers by Cory Doctorow

What a great, exciting, informative and inspiring book "For The Win" was to me. And even though I am not a native English speaker it was very easy to read after having adapted the gaming vocabulary (don't worry girls, it's not that much). So again, I advise anyone who's familiar with the english language to give it a try in the original version.

I don't want to write a review, since I bet there are 20+ reviews to be found in the internet and all of them are probably better than mine would be.You can find one here by wired.com and another one here on SFSite.

To introduce the author, Cory Doctorow, I have linked an interview with him. It is mostly about Makers, another novel he wrote, and, of course, For The Win. Just to let you know, Cory Doctorow has been voted amongst the 25 most influential persons in the Internet by the Forbes magazine. Check the corresponding article.

A definitive must-read for everybody interested in the internet, gaming, economy and science fiction. Escpecially a must-read for everybody else.

German Pirates Party - A documentation

This movie is a documentation about the first 100 days of the young German Pirate Party in Berlin's parliament, the Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus. If you're into politics and especially into the Pirate Movement, you should check it out. The documentation was originally aired by the German broadcasting station ARD. You can find it here.

The Occupied Times of London

The digital newspaper for all things occupied. Or so. Lots of infos about the movement and the different Occupy-Camps. PDF's of the print versions. Interviews, comics, pretty much everything a newspaper offers. And one hell of a font.

Find the newspaper here including downloadable PDF's of the print version. Occupy!