Illegal Art

Illegal Art. Suggests the possibility of eventual widespread everyman support for copyright reform.

Mickey mouse gasmask:

via Tim O’Reilly

[/society] posted at 18:09 #

The Phone Co-op

One of my Grandfathers believed in the The Co-operative Group and worked for them for many years. He also worked for British Telecom. When they were privatised he refused on principle to take any of the shares options he was entitled to.

He would have been pleased to see The Phone Co-op.

Marketing appears to only work on a profit motivated basis though.

[/economics] posted at 12:09 #

An imagined parallel, I hope

San Francisco today:

The latest episode to anger legislators was a decision by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights to post on the Internet partial Social Security numbers of lawmakers who did not support the latest attempt to increase protections on personal financial information.

vs.

The now imprisoned Jim Bell in 1997:

Assassination Politics I speculated on the question of whether an organization could be set up to legally announce that it would be awarding a cash prize to somebody who correctly “predicted” the death of one of a list of violators of rights, usually either government employees, officeholders, or appointees. It could ask for anonymous contributions from the public, and individuals would be able send those contributions using digital cash.

[/politics] posted at 11:14 #