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<s5>Æliens</s5> -- slide(s) Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. Intellectual Property: An Abolitionist Case | blog.cyberiada.info. {*style:<i>This blogpost ist the transcribed, translated and slightly updated version of “Steal This Talk”, which I gave in June 2012 at GPN12 (hacker conference in Karlsruhe, highly recommended). </i>*} In July 2011 a torrent file hit the internet and quickly attracted thousands of up- and downloaders. Its content were 18 000 scientific articles from the , practically the first scientific journal in history. The collection of articles reached back into the 17th century, so at least a part of the articles were in the public domain – theoretically. In fact, they came from the commercial database JSTOR , where they could be accessed for a substantial fee. Sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative.

For this attempt at liberating scientific papers, internet activist Aaron Swartz was arrested in the US on charges of computer fraud and threatened with a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison. At the same time, the ACTA issue came to a kind of showdown. Global Scientific & Technical Database. Voxel - May 2012 Template Demo. The Venus Project. The Zeitgeist Media Festival. Recognizing the power of art and media to help change the world, the annual "Zeitgeist Media Festival" (ZMF) bridges the artistic & activist communities in the hope to inspire change. It recognizes that needed changes in the structural/economic workings of society can only manifest in tandem with a personal/social transformation of values in each of us.

While intellectual knowledge serves its role of showing the path, many in the world follow their feelings and comforts - not new knowledge. Art is considered the most powerful tool we have to bridge these levels of awareness and inspire action for change. Keeping the gesture of the long history of influential artistic creators whose vision have changed our world for the better, The ZMF works to unify the world through this expression with the basic ethos that we are one species sharing one planet and it is time the world learns to work together for the betterment of all before it is too late. The Zeitgeist Film Series Gateway | Zeitgeist: The Movie, Zeitgeist: Addendum, Zeitgeist Moving Forward.