Copying means sharing knowledge
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:29 am
Last Friday at The Next Web, in addition to an overwhelming focus on mobile apps, there was also room for philosophical reflections on our future. Why is integrity more important to young people than sustainability? What does the rise of the pirate party teach us? And why are 17-year-old Korean schoolgirls the new trendsetters?
Friday morning at The Next Web kicked off with a panel session on Wikileaks. Although Wikileaks itself was not explicitly mentioned, the session was full of 'the world with Wikileaks'. The panel consisted of Alexander Bard (musician of Army of Lover, but also a philosopher with a razor-sharp vision of the online world) and Rickard Falkvinge , founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and advocate of sharing knowledge. Andrew Keen (photo) challenged the gentlemen to share their vision of the future and the present with us, and many memorable quotes were used.
Falkvinge says that the Pirate Party stands for much more than just allowing file sharing philippines phone number list We stand for privacy, transparency, accountability and copying. Copying means sharing and sharing means knowledge.” Alexander Bard argues that he finds the idealism of the Pirate Party naive. “I think the pirates are naive about their own place in history. The pirates like to think of themselves as rebels against the establishment, but what they forget is that they are the new ruling class that is taking over the world. They are literally killing the old capitalism.”
Bard has an interesting mix of experience. As a musician in Army of Lovers, he was the man who knew the media industry from the inside. But he is also an information sociologist with an academic background. Because of this combination of knowledge, he was asked in 1996 by the Stockholm School of Economics to investigate the new major development that was the Internet. “There were a lot of media theorists who quoted each other and didn’t know what the Internet was, and there were a lot of people who worked in the media industry who couldn’t write an academic paper. I was both a forerunner in the media industry and an academic. I had the opportunity to travel around the world and find out what the Internet was all about.”
Friday morning at The Next Web kicked off with a panel session on Wikileaks. Although Wikileaks itself was not explicitly mentioned, the session was full of 'the world with Wikileaks'. The panel consisted of Alexander Bard (musician of Army of Lover, but also a philosopher with a razor-sharp vision of the online world) and Rickard Falkvinge , founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and advocate of sharing knowledge. Andrew Keen (photo) challenged the gentlemen to share their vision of the future and the present with us, and many memorable quotes were used.
Falkvinge says that the Pirate Party stands for much more than just allowing file sharing philippines phone number list We stand for privacy, transparency, accountability and copying. Copying means sharing and sharing means knowledge.” Alexander Bard argues that he finds the idealism of the Pirate Party naive. “I think the pirates are naive about their own place in history. The pirates like to think of themselves as rebels against the establishment, but what they forget is that they are the new ruling class that is taking over the world. They are literally killing the old capitalism.”
Bard has an interesting mix of experience. As a musician in Army of Lovers, he was the man who knew the media industry from the inside. But he is also an information sociologist with an academic background. Because of this combination of knowledge, he was asked in 1996 by the Stockholm School of Economics to investigate the new major development that was the Internet. “There were a lot of media theorists who quoted each other and didn’t know what the Internet was, and there were a lot of people who worked in the media industry who couldn’t write an academic paper. I was both a forerunner in the media industry and an academic. I had the opportunity to travel around the world and find out what the Internet was all about.”