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cal equivalent, taking place in file-sharing<br />
networks.<br />
We gave a voice to that copying, but now<br />
it is time to move along.<br />
After two years of activity, Piratbyran collected<br />
the texts from our webpage and<br />
let them be printed in a book, entitled<br />
Copy Me. This book is the only enduring<br />
and burnable document from the past<br />
years. By destroying that document we<br />
will sweep out the old and frozen positions,<br />
and make room for new ones. Everything<br />
has its time, and Walpurgis Night<br />
is the time to leave bygone stuff behind<br />
and greet the spring and its playfulness.<br />
Hereby we burn, in four book-fires, four<br />
89<br />
conceptual opposites which we are now<br />
done with, and which are already collapsing.<br />
[The May Queen initiates fire #1]<br />
# Legal/Illegal<br />
Copying takes place everywhere and all<br />
the time. To use digital data is to copy it.<br />
No matter if it’s from hard drive to RAM<br />
memory, from one portable device to another<br />
or from peer to peer. No matter if<br />
the physical distance of the copy is measured<br />
in millimetres or miles. No matter if<br />
the copy travels through a neurological<br />
path, through cable or wireless, on plastic<br />
discs, chips or constellations of cells.<br />
Still some people prefer to speak for or<br />
against file-sharing, as if it was an isolated<br />
phenomena. As if the alternatives was<br />
no more than two: file-sharing networks<br />
or selling digital files.<br />
Yesterday we walked around with megabytes<br />
in our pockets, today with gigabytes<br />
and tomorrow terabytes. The day<br />
after tomorrow, for a reasonable price,<br />
we will have tiny storage devices that<br />
contain more film, music, text and images<br />
than we can ever incorporate into<br />
out lives. Everything ready for immediate<br />
transfer to another persons device.
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