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Rickard Falkvinge: Has BitCoin “Central Bank” Crashed or Been Robbed? MtGox Failed to Honor $38 Million in Withdrawals

Major Bitcoin Exchange Not Executing Withdrawals; Now Owes Clients $38M In Disappeared Money Cryptocurrency:  MtGox, the oldest and once-largest bitcoin exchange, appears to have a serious problem. Since about a week ago, clients’ bitcoin withdrawals have been deducted from their account, but the clients never received the money – the money withdrawn was effectively disappeared …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Pirate Party Iceland & EU Nominate Manning & Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Pirate Party MPs, MEPs Jointly Nominate Snowden And Manning For Peace Prize Civil Liberties:  Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 in a joint nomination by the Pirate MPs of Iceland and the Pirate MEPs of the European Parliament. “Manning gave us an insight into the brutal reality …

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Rickard Falkvinge: The Toy-Hungry Multimillionaire Market That’s Completely Underserved

The Toy-Hungry Multimillionaire Market That’s Completely Underserved A scheisseload of US Dollars Cryptocurrency: In 2010 and 2011, a lot of geeks acquired something called bitcoin. It’s a novel form of currency that breaks all the rules you know and redefines currency as we know it. In 2011, this currency was worth mid-single digits per “coin”. Today, …

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Rickard Falkvinge: UK ISPs Censorship Violates Mere Carrier Status, Opens Way for Punishing Legal Assault

Censorship Triggers Liability: UK ISPs Need To Be Sued Way Out Into Atlantic Infrastructure: Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom have started censoring the Internet wholesale by default. This is a horrible transgression against the free exchange of ideas, cheered on by authoritarian politicians. However, there is an important weapon built into the legal framework …

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Rickard Falkvinge: File-Sharing Hunt Violates Human Rights (Per European Court)

Reminder 2: Hunt For File-Sharers Violates Fundamental Human Rights (Says The European Court Of Human Rights) Copyright Monopoly:  Happy Yule, everybody! In our series of reminders about important talkbacks, we’ve come to the reminder that the act of hunting for people who share culture and knowledge online violates their fundamental human rights, as doing so …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Copyright Infringement is Not Theft

Reminder 1: Copyright Monopoly Infringement Isn’t Stealing (Says The US Supreme Court) Copyright Monopoly:  Over the Yule holidays, I’ll be running a series of reminders of some of the most useful talkbacks. We open with one of the more common ones: copyright industry lawyers tend to insist that violation of the copyright monopoly is “stealing”. …

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