Powr, Broccoli and KOPIMI

[Moejoe]

A free e-book/manifesto from the people behind the Piratebay (I'm sure you've heard of them by now). It's in PDF (shame) but comes with all contents and permissions to remix, share, and basically do whatever you like. It's very short and quite strange, but it gives a metaphysical insight into the thought processes behind the modern 'pirate'.

Here's the blurb from the site:

In the shadow of the culture industry's final crisis of the 20th-
century, grows a larger portrait of the POwr, broccoli and Kopimi.
Each step of the culture industry's failures is followed by the
uncanny successes of the structurally diffused spread of an Internet
elite, spread worldwide. The book you're about to read has no author,
no designer, no translators, no distribution channel. Nevertheless,
you have it in front of you. How did it happen?

Read the frightening instructions of a loosely coherent core of
IT specialists grafted into an unsuspecting generation of youths,
and how the group stole the eggs, dollars and jpegs in front of
the powerless establishment and strong financial interests. Learn
how servers, seeders, trackers, e-mail, company formation, foreign
investors, Ikko's weekly allowance, scandalous advertisements,
links and search services, infiltrated and destroyed an entire
world that had nowhere to run, no one to consult, and no one to
trust...

The machine, which operates under the radar frequency is
unhindered from the Cambodian jungle to the gay neighborhoods
of San Francisco, via the empty beaches of Tel-Aviv, and into
the Internet of plain folks in Jönköping suburbs and Gothenburg
harbor. It leaves no one unmoved and mangles everything it in
its path. Technically superior and physically independent it's
constantly transformed, mutated and reappears in new guises and
under new codenames. With a stranglehold on its opponents it's
completely untouched and even more - incomprehensible.

It has rightly been said that this is the first time Kopimi
has freed the world and we can be sure that it's not the last.


(Releasenotes: Download, share, translate, remix, bend, modify,
copy, trash, bash, move, publish, burn, hide, remake, plz KOPIMI!)

Recommended, I suppose, for those in support of the Piratebay, and those who just want to know more.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4741...roccoli-kopimi


If this contravenes any board rules about piracy (although the license is free) please let me know and I'll remove.

[Marysart]

This is interesting. thank you for bringing it to our attention.

[dschill]

very interesting article if you read it closely..These guys pwn the ineternets