for some further background information about the block of our il-fordbrother's blog fordbrothers.biz in turkey go to http://fordbrothers.wordpress.com. moreover rotaugs very own trESH posted a really interesting comment on the last post. a new firefox add-on that simulates the view, you have on the internet, when you are  situated or living within the chinese wall (with all restrictions and blocks and so on). if you wanna try it out, go to chinachannel.hk. seems to be good to find out about the "freedom of speach", its restrictions and manipulating around the world. PEACE!

...a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture.
the world of music nowadays is a complicated one. the internet has made it possible to access any digital information almost everywhere on the planet. in chase of the question if intellectual property can be protected in a world that is gloabaly connected but where laws still change at borders, good copy bad copy shows the different angles and frontiers of the problem.
and... the documentary is free for download

enjoy!

links:
official site
credits
torrent file

Yesterday Wikileaks puplished a leaked document entitled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". Its quite a scary read and obviously aims to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the internet, by pushing for a generalized Intellectual Property Right(IPR) law enforcement worldwide.
If adopted, a treaty of this form would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools. The source states that trade representatives intend to formalize the agreement at the G-8 summit in July 2008. (text passages taken from wikileaks)

Links:
paper (pdf)
story on wikileaks

was attacked by the Austrian FPÖ right wing party, to be a project, that only wants to show the nice side of live, from the slum, that they are censoring material which contains violence, and as an not named expert says, "this is like in a communist dictatorship". now also the City of Vienna, and the Austrian Development Agency, were accused that they finance such a "again communist notion" propagandist project and such FAKE ART! (text taken from email of slum-tv)

watch the video of the discussion at city council, listen to the definition of the project by dr. andreas mailath-pokorny and the ridiculous questions of mag. harald stefan (FPÖ), his definition of the word "censorship" and his opinion about the austrian government supporting a project with "no!!!" direct reference to austria and vienna.  (although it is the "following project" to an exhibition in nairobi last year, called economy class and an austrian-kenian project organized by austrian and kenian artists.) make yourself a picture and keep it in mind for the next elections. (sorry, the video is in german only, but slum-tv is workin on a translation for all you english speaking people out there).

(image by Theodore Watson)

Since the gewista stated that they will remove any Posters in viennas public space that R not put up by the gewista, i think it´s time for different tactics. (press1, press2 & petition)

Laser tagger is a processing based software that allows U to paint on urban infrastructure using a projector & a laserpointer.

it´s available 4free @ the graffiti research lab vienna(GRLv) site and there is another different software by Theodore Watson

links:

soup.graffitiresearchlab.at

muonics.net/site_docs/work.php