[-empyre-] laws, outlaws & golden pirates

[magnus at ditch.org.uk]

Hi Shu Lea & Paolo,

I see that efforts to introduce the three strikes rule in the virtual
domain didn't succeed, at least in recent France and Germany

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/germany-walks-away-from-three-strikes-internet-policy.ars

This handling of petty freeloaders of the virtual puts me in mind of fare
dodgers on public transport, where in Germany, I believe, the three
strikes rule can lead to a custodial sentence. This is expensive to
administer, for sure. But I wonder, is the analogy appropriate at all? Is
the
pirate republic a utopia or a purely pragmatic alternative - for the net
users threatened with being marooned by (the real) pirate kings?

Best wishes,

Magnus

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:24:56PM +0200, shu lea cheang 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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