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The New Italian Digital Inquisition

On July 4, 2011 By pepi

Some time ago I told you about the New Spanish Digital Inquisition, the so-called Sinde Law. By that time it seemed that the Spanish Sinde Law was creating a mercifulness law for “controlling” the Internet. However, it seems that, from July 6 2011, Italy is going to become the [...]

Españistán, from the Spanish Building Bubble to the Crisis

On June 15, 2011 By pepi

How can you explain the Spanish Crisis in a simple, but yet, funny way? Aleix Saló, a young Catalan cartoonist, has been able what no economist could, explain the ins and outs of the Spanish Crisis in just 6 minutes. The so-called “crisis of the brick” has made of [...]

A double-edged Law

On June 5, 2011 By pepi

Time ago I introduced you a Spanish Law called “la ley Sinde”, commonly known as the “law without unlawful downloads”, by which it would be possible to close down web sites offering P2P links, or linking to content violating the copyright, without a process in a Court, that is, without a Judge deciding. I [...]

Spain’s secret conflict

On May 29, 2011 By pepi

You have three options:

Watching the documentary Reading the long post Doing both things

It’s up to you how much of your time you want to spend to know about Catalans in Spain

Would you like Catalonia to be an Independent State within the European Union?
✔ YES
✘ NO
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Quo Vadis Spain??

On May 27, 2011 By pepi

We want a new society. This, does not work anymore.

Today, May 27th 2011 the Spanish & Catalan police, under the orders of the Catalan Government, tried to evict the demonstrators of Catalonia Square in Barcelona. But… why??

Last May 15th, Spanish youth, using Social Media, decided to demonstrate around more [...]

“Copy! Damn it!”, the documentary on the right to copy

On May 12, 2011 By pepi

To me, copying means the “Genesis of Creation”, (Javier de la Cueva)

As you might already know, the Copyright is a set of rights given by law to the author of an original work, which includes, in Europe, both economic and moral rights. It is not, itself, a License. [...]

If CODE is LAW, which mixture of possible “regulations” would work better?

On April 24, 2011 By pepi

Law is very similar to the mayonnaise: it requires creativity and art when mixing and handling the ingredients, but this does not mean that with the same ingredients and receipt the result will be always the same. (Corrado Giustozzi, my translation from Italian)

Code is Law: Does Anyone Get This Yet? from [...]

Violating CC licensed work

On April 17, 2011 By pepi

Times of crisis can show the best or the worst in human behavior. Good or bad behavior shows up in the most unpredicted ways. One example of “very bad behavior” linked with the recent disaster of March 11th 2011 in Tohoku area in Japan is the case presented here. A well-known and prestigious Spanish Newspaper [...]

Trip to Japan, quick tourist guide to support the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake

On April 2, 2011 By pepi

Trip to Japan is a quick tourist guide which aims to support the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake as well as tries to promote tourism in Japan. It has been made into a “comic book” format with lots of photos recently taken around Kanto and Kansai. I live in [...]

Smile, you’ve been fired!

On March 8, 2011 By pepi

One of the first causes of stress in the work place is insecurity. Our economies are crumbling, thus, the insecurity at work is making our workers crumble. But how? Making them feel inside of tiny little coffins.

Is your boss demanding from you more and more each time, making you overload? We are so [...]