Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Aaron Swartz's Lawyer: Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Wanted 'Juicy' Case For Publicity

Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney, Under Fire Over Suicide Of Internet Pioneer Aaron Swartz

Oh for fuxake!!! The Observer deletes that 'hip young gunslinger's' disgusting article and the Telegraph republishes it!!!

Dr Feelgood - Going Back Home (1975)

Live At Southend Kursaal
1. Going Back Home
2. I'm A Hog For You Baby
3. Roxette
4. Shouldn't Call The Doctor
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Aaron Swartz’s Politics

Carmen Ortiz Did Not Act Alone in Hounding Aaron Swartz To His Death

Ten simple ways to share PDFs of your papers #PDFtribute

Monday, 14 January 2013

The (Kenyan) Male Gaze

Coldcut Meets The Orb (Solid Steel Radio Show 4/1/2013)

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Recorded on the anniversary of JFK's assassination and 21 years after their historic '92 New Year mix on Kiss 100 FM, Coldcut meets The Orb inna Uptown Youth House for the Return Trip. Matt Black and Jonathan More alongside studio accomplice Dor Wand got suitably enhanced with Dr LX Paterson and Youth for a multi-player late night jam session lasting over 3 hours. They then entrusted the multitracks of the set to DJ Food who heroically edited, condensed and massaged the sprawling swamp of sound into a tight - but also loose - 2 hour Solid Steel session.
Swimming through the mix are Lee Perry, Killing Joke, Sun Ra, William Burroughs, Teebs, Ry Cooder, Actress, Prince Jammy, Iggy Pop, Monty Python, Hank Williams and Hal 9000. Alongside unreleased dubs from the players themselves, remixes and versions of tunes old and new, the complete track listing for this marathon set may never be fullly disclosed. It's 2 hours, 10 minutes of sonic secrets to melt your mind, probably best listened to in headphones late at night with all suitable facilities for the full effect. Enjoy this trip.
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Part 1 + 2 - Coldcut meets The Orb - The Return Trip
The Orb – Hold Me (Interlude) (feat. Lee Scratch Perry) (Dub Temple Records)
OICHO - Buried (Workhousedigital)
Gaudi & The Orb feat. Lee Scratch Perry - I Start To Pray (unreleased)
Youth vs Brother Culture - Bubble Up (unreleased)
Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (My Own Memory) (Mochilla)
Coldcut - Isotoke (unreleased)
Sun Ra - Astro Black (Impulse)
John Coltrane - So What solo (Columbia)
Arthur Russell - Lets Go Swimming (Logarhythm)
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain (Decca)
Derek Scott - Sounds Unusual (Music De Wolfe)
Nitty Gritty - Use To Be My Dubber (Uptempo Records)
Yabby You - Heads A Roll Dub (Profit Records)
The Orb - Man In The Moon (Instrumental) (Cooking Vinyl)
Manuel Gottsching / Ash Ra Temple - Pluralis (Kosmiche Musik)
Moondog - Dance Rehearsal (Prestige)
Delta Uniform Bravo - A Stooges Lament (unreleased)
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Music (Virgin)
Killing Joke - Exorcism (Youth dub) (unreleased) + Delta Airlines Ebonics skit
William Burroughs - Ah Pook Is Here (Giorno Poetry Systems)
Delta Uniform Bravo - On & On (Skewed Version) (unreleased)
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way (Alshire Records)
Bonnie Dobson - Bird of Space (Prestige)
Monty Python - The Rhubarb Tart Song (Charisma)
Ry Cooder - Paris Texas (Warner Bros)
The Amorphous Androgynous - Guru Song (Artful Records)
Overture - Orchestra (Varese Sarabande)
Killing Joke - European Super State (Youth dub remix) (unreleased)
Pole - Berlin (Kiff)
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Tainted Phenomena (Southern Records)

The Aaron Swartz Collection @ The Internet Archive

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Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.
“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz
July 2008, Eremo, Italy