[-empyre-] laws, outlaws & golden pirates

[Simon Biggs]

So, the empire (empyre) strikes back? I seem to remember hearing that
somewhere before.

I remember the first time I saw Star Wars (about 1978?) and feeling
ambivalent about who were meant to be the "good guys".

But that was 40 years ago! The empire has changed...

Best

Simon


On 05/07/2011 20:24, "shu lea cheang" <shulea at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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