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Swedish Pirate Demo
Arioch of Chaos writes "In Sweden, May 1 is still a day when many people get out on the streets to take part in the traditional demonstrations. Today, the Swedish site Piratbyrån organised demonstrations in several Swedish towns, demanding more bandwith and the abolition of intellectual property laws. This picture is just great. More pictures here." Congratulations to whoever made the AYBABTU sign.
Arrrr.
Obviously http://www.piratbyran.org/ needs more bandwidth...
These shipless, beardless landlubbing wenches call themselves pirates!?
The rise in the landlubber:pirate ratio is very bad, Arr.
Am I the only one who thinks that "Swedish Pirate Demonstration" would have been a better article title?
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My imagination cooked up some confusing stuff in the short times before my eyes made their way down to the description. A game where you are a Swedish pirate raiding Danish ships? A new P2P program written by a Swede? Maybe something involving a Swedish demolition guy?
Anyway, that's pretty neat that there were organized demonstrations. Hopefully it'll get some press (outside of the
They would probabley just steal from eachother. I could see an entire pirate economy coming out of it: black market becoming the predominant [stock]market, thereby calling out the need for a fusia or peach pink market. *sigh* Silly pirates, don't they realize what they're doing?
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you a fool than to open it and prove them right." M. Twain
Arrr mateys! Three swigs ah rum to anyone who can find out who slashdotted our ship! Yarr!!
These guys must be prescient, they saw the slashdotting coming and demanded bandwidth in advance!
Too bad it's not Iceland. Then we could say "Slashdottir".
Yarrr ... Share me some MP3's on yon fat pipe matey .... Yarrr
... and ain't no p2p in those days either.
And not a peg leg amongst the lot of 'em. These swabbies aren't much for piratin, but I ain't never met me a pirate worth his salt hailing from Sweden.
Back when I was earnin me sea-legs we'd be out a rapin' and a pillagin' and a downloading our warez over 28baud
Yarrr, more rapin and a pillagin and a downloadin' and less parades say me.
Especially after posting 769 KB (1600x1200) JPGs on their web site.
Virus infects both Windows and Linux!
and Paris Hilton video.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you a fool than to open it and prove them right." M. Twain
C'mon, how much meaner can we GET?? We post a site that's (1) about pirates, which are inherently cool, (2) got a picture of a real-life AYBABTU sign (both of these make it a primary Slashdotting candidate) (3) is ALREADY involved in protesting because they need more bandwidth-- and we post this on our front page.
It's like inviting the WHOLE frikkin' horde of Viking^H^H^H^H^H^HSlashdot barbarians to bang on their gates. In the words of a certain GalaxyQuest character: "Those poor people..."
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'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
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And I'm thinking they better finish the demonstration before 9 pm and wash their hands afterwards or they'll get into trouble...
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I got the text but it's encrypted :-) See for yourself:
Piratbyrån demonstrerade i tre städer
Inlagd: 2004-05-02 00:49
I tre städer demonstrerade idag anhängare till Piratbyrån under paroller som "Välfärdssamhället börjar vid 100 Mbit" och "Avskaffa upphovsrätten". I Stockholm demonstrerade närmare 200 personer, i Umeå ett hundratal och i Malmö ett tappert halvdussin.
Deltagarna skanderade nypåkomna slagord som "Use the force - Open Source" och "Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha 600 Mbit", och bar på hemgjorda banderoller med pirat- eller fildelningstema. I Stockholm genomfördes också historiens första Copyswap, där de som hade med sig egenbrända skivor med film eller musik delade med sig till sina nyfunna vänner. I Umeå delades det ut pris till demonstrationens bäst utklädde pirat, en alldeles äkta hårddisk.
Både i Stockholm och Umeå fokuserade talen på den nyligen avslutade kampanjen "Stoppa Fluktarna", som syftar till att sätta press på internetleverantörerna att inte acceptera branschorganisationernas maffiametoder när de bland annat spionerar på internetanvändare för att sedemera kunna anmäla dem till deras leverantörer.
I Umeå tågade demonstrationen förbi tre stora internetleverantörer som har kontor i staden, och i Stockholm var slutdestinationen Datainspektionen där 23.000 namnunderskrifter lämnades in - brända på CD-Rom. Datainspektionen ansåg sig inte ha tid för Piratbyrån, så listan lämnades i deras postfack.
Piratbyrån vill tacka alla som anslöt sig till demonstrationerna idag. Vi visade att vi faktiskt finns på riktigt, och att vi är en kraft att räkna med. Tills nästa arrangemang - fortsätt piratkopiera!
Yea... right.
My poetry site welcomes the unusual.
Why do the Piratbyrån drink coffee ?
Because Intellectual Proper Tea is theft.
Your unlawful copying of our images will not go unpunished! You will hear from our lawyers!
/Piratbyrån
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex
Yea... right
Observe how information about what is being said leads to quick breaking of cryptosystems.
>>"Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha 600 Mbit"
More like: "Vi vill ha porn, vi vill ha porn, vi vill ha 600 Mbit"
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The Vikings were not pirates, they were traders. They just had their own methods of breaking down trade barriers and confronting protectionism.
In a sense, the Vikings were the original free trade lobbyists.
...is that I recognized what AYBABTU was an acronym for, before I saw it. I got to read less Slashdot...
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Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Bullshit
Slashdotus 23:45 Thou shalt not confuse stealing with copyright infringement
Haven't you read the Very New Testament?
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Someone needs to jumpstart those poor folks forward into 1983 and floppy diskettes.
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I swear.. mass demonstrations by hacker groups? What was it yesterday? Large amounts of zombie machines available for rent by organized crime? Sheesh.. i want my assassin chicks with razor fingers now.
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Hehe, given the effects that observers can have on quantum interactions, it just might be the case that the number of people who believe in string theory will determine whether or not it is valid ;)
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI