The Pirate Bay Verdict

The Pirate Bay Verdict has fallen and its clear that the judges was influenced by the government and they in turn by the old world copyright lobbyists. The debate regarding copyright is not an easy one. If it was possible for eg an artist to say; “I don’t want my music shared on the internet” and due to some strange super duper algorithm that would be possible …. this would actually be a debate where it would be hard to say yes or no regarding if we need to change copyright laws or not.

The fact is though that in order to uphold todays copyright laws on the internet there would be a need for such a major monitoring of internet traffic that we would live in a surveillance society such as we have never ever seen before (and we are almost already there).

The establishment (both this government and the previous) in Sweden is disregarding the public opinion (which probably makes me vote blank the next election) and runs the errands of the nonagile developinghindering coorps instead of the people. This trial was not mainly about The Pirate Bay, because the verdict sets the tone for what is about to come and its not a good one. mouse

If you wanna help promote these questions in your country you can go here: Piratpartiet International (if they could just change their stupid name).

Their Copyright Rights is not worth our Integrity and Freedom of Speach Rights!

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Knappnytt 11 – Knatten gillar inte Warner

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New Server Istheshit

Since our beta site of istheshit needs a new home when it goes live, the Bytelove traffic is increasing and due to the fact that our current managed server solution seems to be managed by kids (who gave us like 3 days downtime the last 3 months of which 1.5 was purely due to their incompetence) we thought it time to invest in a new server at another colocation place :) .

 

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1U Rackserver 4*SAS/SATA 2*XEON 5405 8GB 667 fb dimm, 3 Ware 9650SE 4port ML RAID, 500GB 32MB SATA-II, IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN & ded lab KVM over lan

Woho :) .

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Johan Staël von Holstein & Jonas Birgersson intervju

Jag är visserligen kluven till JSvH men i nedanstående intervju kan man inte annat än lida med honom och Jonas Birgersson.

Beware; Försök aldrig bygga nåt stort, uträtta nåt som kan förändra tillvaron för många människor och säg absolut inte att det kommer bli skitbra när du gör det, ifall du som nio av tio företag misslyckas kommer du få sitta i “soffan” som en skurk och svara på nedanstående frågor. Intervjun riktigt ramar in svenska folkets framåtanda och syn på företagare och vad det innebär att “misslyckas” i Sverige.

Jag är för övrigt fascinerad över hur bra grejer JB lyckas förmedla i intervjun trots den trista inriktningen på den.

 

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Knappnytt 10: Tingalin

**DISCLAIMER**

I have nothing against Russians nor do I think suicide is a good idea.

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Monsterbrytarna

New Swedish podcast with Patrik, Matteus and Erik.

Matteus had the very flexible get an office solution midzone that I used for a year in Malmö and Erik who runs Glocalreach is found in the blogroll. Patrik (who really sounds like a real geek in the podcast) runs Örestad Linux however I do not know him … yet ;) .

I especially liked “taking your company to the next level” and the part about the only way to really know how to do something is to actually do it.

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Triforce / Pacman Pendants

The Triforce and Pacman pendants are now in the shop, amazing what some packaging can do (read non crappy photo).

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Pacman Pendant

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Triforce Pendant

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Development

 

via: Wolst

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Don’t worry about the return on your capital …

… worry about the return of your capital :D

 

via Skrentablog

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Knappnytt 9: Prinsessor och kärnkraft

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