[-empyre-] laws, outlaws & golden pirates

[shu lea cheang]

simon asks me about République Pirate, aya, another not realized proposal.
i think i must be better writing proposals then engaged in crossfire talks.

so, a bit of history recap.
in 2002, when we started Kingdom of Piracy, we have a long debate
with armin, yukiko and richard (barbrook) between claiming ourselves
kingdom or republic. This République Pirate was written in 2010, as situated
in France.

Here I try to reconsider your proposal about pirate art/cultural production.
Ultimately i think we have a turn around, reversal of fortune, so to say??
the government is now the pirates, the empire is back? The IP market
is but a seemingly ligitimate front???

over
sl


République Pirate
a proposal by Shu Lea Cheang for poptronics.fr, 2010

The newly established HADOPI legislation calls 
for the creation of a government agency that 
manages  "graduated response" (or so called 3 
strikes) process on internet's illegal 
downloaders. First they are sent a warning 
e-mail, then a letter if continue, and finally 
must appear before a judge if they offend again. 
The judge can then impose a fine, or suspend 
their access to the internet. The Hadopi law is 
highly debated and generated a lot of resistance 
among French/global net-users. There is also 
possible adoption of the Hadopi law among EU 
countries in the following years.

République Pirate as an art project, proposes a 
'confession' scenario for Illegal downloaders. We 
ask the net  users to sign on as the République 
Pirate citizens by submitting her/his recent 3 
allegedly illegal downloads. Either music, sound, 
cinema, texts, game or software, the downloads 
are submitted with the sites' URLs. The citizen 
when admitted to the République Pirate can choose 
to use pseudo names. Their identities protected. 
A new ID passport is to be issued by the 
République Pirate which grants its citizen the 
rights to upload/download and share pirate 
commons on the net.  République Pirate is a net 
refuge for the net commons generation. Beyond an 
art project, a team of legal consultants are 
recruited to defend its citizens if they should 
be caught by HADOPI law enforcement.

République Pirate extends beyond French borders. 
By admitting citizens of illegal net behaviors, 
République Pirate builds a net nation where data 
of  current net resources and file exchange are 
listed. With République Pirate project, we 
counter HADOPI's net policing force. By enlisting 
millions of République Pirate's citizens, we 
claim République France has been taken over by
the pirates!!!!   Long live the République Pirate.
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