I never really fitted the artist mold, but I loved the various methods and technologies I encountered whilst learning about media and the creation of various forms of art.

That is why I took to the web so quickly and easily. It was instantly rewarding, accessible and relatively cost-free (more-so now).

For many long years a war has been waged against the common internet user. But you might not know anything about it. Let me help.

Be a Pirate !!!

The internet used to be a place of freedom, expression and ideas – all being exchanged and improved-upon. This was the ideas behind the original Hyper Text Mark-up Language as invented by Tim Berners-Lee – a web where users could add, edit and remove the content of any document they were browsing.

The internet Mr Berners-Lee conceived and built was based upon the first international network of computers (inter-net) called the Arpanet, where information was king – the very idea being that you could readily exchange, copy and swap information freely and easily, anywhere on the network.

As things have progressed, things have obviously changed, a world wide web where everyone has the power to edit is problematic when your not solely involved in a research project with other scientists, thus the web as we know it today with sites and pages we ‘view’ exists. And this is what many know to the be whole truth.

Rarely do we question the authorities that regulate and organise the systems and structures within which with exist. And therein lies the problem.

Simply because something is put on the internet does not make it a crime – we all free to share and distribute any and all information we deem fit. But there are people working for lobby organisations and legal departments that are drawing rings around what is and is not legal in the online world. And this has never happened before, so how do we know what is right and wrong ?

Steal this film

‘Steal this film‘ is an important piece of public-domain media that aims to demystify the culture of Peer-to-peer file sharing and to a lesser extent tells the story fo the famous torrent search engine The Pirate Bay.

Get the Part 1 torrent file

Get the Part 2 torrent file

The Green Party have also joined the foray of debate by putting this site together to let their policies be known – http://iwouldntsteal.net/

as well as this short video;

There is also a superb documentary piece called Good Copy Bad Copy – that is worth watching.

It is fairly large and long, but highly worth while. See the full-size version on the website here – http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/.

If only it was having a greater effect.

The presentation on TED

The official website is here… http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

And you can view it on Google video here… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331

I wont go into the preacher-esque speech about why you should, just know this; you have the choice to do anything in life,choosing to do nothing is alot easier than choosing to do something. Dont choose to ignore this.

Also, on March 15th, it is Z-Day.
If you can hold a meeting or a showing and raise awareness of thes basic simple truths.

Once you have waded through the numerous, accurate, comparisons to Nazi and fascist regimes the hard facts arehard to ingore..   please read this article. All of you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html 

Lets hope something happens soon.

Peace.

Buy Nothing Day – Adbusters

As you will see, even complying with the officer-of-the-law in the US is considered resisting arrest.

Can’t wait to gets guns into the hands of our well-train, highly educated police…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8027854162700568157&q=ktla 

A student in America was recently arrested and assaulted by Police for no aparent reason, and in front of John Kerry.

If there is a god, every american had better start praying, I dont see a way back from this.

The Youtube video

If you ever needed a better reason to go out there and download a major studio release or production,let this be it.

Viacom in all their wisdom, have ordered a take-down notice to Youtube for a clip they themselves had not right to publish or distribute..  this should surely be added to Wikipedia under ‘irony’.

The Mashable article

Go see it, The Modern Adventure.

Yum.

Meet 6pm on the South Bank, under Waterloo Bridge on the last friday of every month.