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Chaos Computer Conference in Berlin

The annual Chaos Computer Conference took place between Xmas and New Year in Berlin, and I wandered along to the closing day just to take in the atmosphere a bit. In the past my attendance has been more assiduous but the event is a touch too fetischistically technical for my tastes, and where is a political dimension it is overdetermined by a privacy perspective.

January 30, 2008 Posted by nonrival | / | | 2 Comments

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Alan Toner, intellectual property and communications researcher, lost between New York, Buenos Aires, Rome, Berlin and Dublin. Mixing law, alcohol, politics and media in various languages since 1973. You may have met me at New York University, where I was a fellow at the Information Law Institute and the Engelberg Center on Law and Innovation, read something I wrote for Mute or Diagonal, or conspired in the shenanigans around the World Summit on the Information society when I worked with WSIS: We Seize!

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Current Interest: The new Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED 2), which I oppose. See the FFII page dedicated to the question here. I follow conflicts in Argentina related to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and the ongoing fights around peer production, p2p and piracy. Consequently I’m following events in relation to the French Creation and Internet law (Hadopi), and the Pirate Bay’s trial in Sweden. If you’re interested in this subject you can download and watch Steal This Film, and check out our searchable archive of interviews.

Driven by a basic hedonism and the need to maintain some connection with material culture, I’ve been investigating wine: how it’s made, the story it tells, and of course, how it tastes. Responsibility for this laundering of my vice can safely be attributed to Critical Wine, a network of small producers in Italy who presented it in a political/cultural context that I found… compelling!

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