….or at least soonish….  Today in one and a half hours I will be walking into a bank and asking for $15,000 in loans to give the startup funding to my organization Patriots of the Digital Revolution. We will then use that money to invest in and acquire more torrent websites and cyberlockers from people who feel that they can no longer fight, and want out of the scene, but don’t want to abandon their website.Patriots of the Digital Revolution Digital Patriots has been successful so far by saving two websites: TUEBL The Ultimate Ebook Library and TorMovies.org a movie torrent aggregator site. We currently have done a really good job of breaking even each month, but that does not help us to get the exposure that we would like to get and it also doesn’t give us the funds to expand our network, and to save more websites.What makes Patriots of the Digital Revolution different than the people who run the torrent sites now? We have a progressive array of servers in multiple countries we own multiple domains through multiple registrars for each of our websites, and automated and manual systems that allow any pice of the chain to be disrupted and our websites will still operate. We also keep digitalpatriots.org and mahsql.info available so people can always see the status of our websites and what the current proper domain is to use. We also have a line of succession so that if anything ever happens to me or I am arrested, a new person who is private for obvious reasons will take over the network.

via The Revolution Starts Now – Falkvinge on Infopolicy.

Considering my involvement with various filesharing websites, and my anti-US Government position. I see this coming to Canada soon, and it scares the hell out of me (they have already done it with the Casino site guys). How could a country be so subservient to another country that they are willing to sell out their own citizens?

Richard O’Dwyer, the UK-based ex-administrator of the video linking website TVShack will be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement charges. Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-year-old student has never visited United States, but now faces several years in a US prison.

Last year Richard O’Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that carried links to copyrighted TV-shows.

Following his detention in the UK’s largest prison, the site owner fought a looming extradition to the US, but without success.

After a UK judge gave the green light to extradite the student two months ago, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the request from US authorities today.

via “Pirating” UK Student to be Extradited to the US | TorrentFreak.

Help us Obi Johnston, you’re our only hope. :(

Were you intrigued by “The $8 Billion iPod,” Rob Reid’s short TEDTalk about the new science of Copyright Math (TM)? We were. We needed to know more. More numbers, Rob! we said. And Rob (whose comic novel Year Zero comes out in July) sent us this treatise, a master class in creative mathematics:

A few weeks back, I gave a short TED talk about “Copyright Math.” Since TED draws both Hollywood and Silicon Valley bigwigs, I thought it would be a great venue for raising certain rights issues that have been a sore point between the two industries for years. But January’s brawl over the proposed SOPA law was a raw and recent memory. So I decided to make my talk playful, rather than sermonizing. Everyone can laugh at silly infographics. And who DOESN’T want to deface a Leave-it-to-Beaver-like Christmas scene with pirate-and-Santa graffiti?

Since the talk was so short, I couldn’t dive deeply into the numbers and sources that I based it on (which would have shattered the whimsical tone anyway). But even my silliest numbers were derived from actual research, performed by an actual Copyright Mathematician (me, that is). So I thought I’d use this blog post to put my sources and calculations out there for anyone who’d like to nerd out on the details.

First, the Motion Picture Association’s claims of $58 billion in actual US economic losses and 373,000 lost jobs came from this press release[1] (which can also be found on Scribd[2]). These numbers originated at a think tank called the “Institute for Policy Innovation” – an organization that Businessweek once profiled in an article called “Op-Eds for Sale.”[3] In it, an IPI analyst freely admitted to taking payoffs from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff[4] in exchange for writing “op-ed pieces boosting the lobbyist’s clients.” The IPI’s president supported this behavior, saying it was neither wrong nor unethical, and dismissing those who apply “a naïve purity standard” to the business of writing op-eds.

Via Ted Talks Blog

As Rick pointed out in a recent post, the United States Government has declared war on trade, making its attack through the DNS system: one of the most critical and forgotten pieces of infrastructure on the Internet. Governments all over the world are destroying access to information by the corruption of local DNS systems. It’s time we reclaim our Internet by taking back our DNS.

via Reclaim The Internet In Under A Minute – Falkvinge on Infopolicy.