Midia Vida

I do believe in what Torrent Freak says: “One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed.” Pioneer One is an ambitious project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith who have collaborated before on ‘The Lionshare’, a BitTorrent-exclusive film which was [...]

I am posting this film here because it is the a shocking issue and we don’t hear enough about it. I get very emotional about this issue and emotional is said never to lead good approaches, but emotional we are, and emotion lead our choices. The film is not only about the US and how [...]

I got this email in my inbox today: WikiLeaks may be under attack. You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resources to respond. Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand what is going on. We apologize for not getting back [...]

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may hamper the fight against climate change by inhibiting the diffusion of green technology, according to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Behind closed doors, the European Union, United States, Japan and other trade partners are negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will contain new international norms for [...]

Beagle: On the future of species The voyage of the HMS Beagle has been described as the most important journey ever made. During his travels, Charles Darwin gathered information and knowledge that would drastically change the way we look at the world. With his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) Darwin would be the [...]

An improvement of the linkage between the economical and the environmental sphere might contribute to a resolution of our current environmental crisis. Potentially, the introduction of the ECO currency can contribute to such a linkage, yet, further study is needed on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the ECO concept. The ECO–currency project explores [...]

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Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist and writer.