Esta semana, los internautas que viven en España lograron algo histórico: instalar en el debate social un tema que venía sufriendo una manipulación intensiva por parte de medios e industrias de la distribución de la cultura: nada más y nada menos que la neutralidad de la red, o la defensa de los derechos fundamentales de [...]
Estos días un tema ha copado casi completamente todas las conversaciones en blogs y otros sitios de internet en España: el rechazo a un anteproyecto de ley de economía sostenible donde, aprovechando su tramitación y de modos poco claros, este gobierno ha colado una serie de medidas que responden a los intereses de pocos, y [...]
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere [...]
“Many independently produced films never make it onto the big screen simply because the costs involved are too high. At the moment most digital movies are distributed “over land” on hard disks costing up to $2000 for each copy. BitTorrent has the power to change this outdated distribution method and get smaller budget films onto [...]
“The duplicability of recordings has had another unexpected effect. The pressure is on to develop content that isn’t easily copyable—so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell. Of course they’ll still want to sell their music, but now they’ll embed that relatively valueless product within a [...]