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Piratbyrån presents:<br />
Four Shreddings and a Funeral<br />
- A walpurgis ritual on spring mountain<br />
A manuscript<br />
http://piratbyran.org/walpurgis/<br />
The spring mountain. The highest point<br />
in Stockholm. It’s twilight time at Walpurgis<br />
Night. Four piles of the book “Copy<br />
Me” are assembled in the formation of a<br />
rhomb.<br />
In the middle stands the May Queen, in<br />
green clothing and a face mask of feathers.<br />
In her hand, a burning torch.<br />
“Welcome to Piratbyran’s Walpurgis<br />
ritual year 2007: “Four shreddings and a<br />
funeral”. Today, we will finally put an end<br />
to the so-called “file-sharing debate”; the<br />
same file-sharing debate that we once<br />
took part in initiating has now served its<br />
time.<br />
When Piratbyran was founded four years<br />
ago, there was no such discussion in<br />
Sweden as there is today. There were<br />
anti-piracy groups whose words stood<br />
unchallenged, but first and foremost<br />
there existed a copying without histori-
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