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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center is Here to Help

by Stephan Kinsella July 1, 2010

Elizabeth Higgs passed this image on to me–she was alerted to this by a European friend who used a site called TV Shack to watch American TV and found the image above. The center seal, from the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, is creepy and  fascist-looking. And no wonder–the NIPRCC is a program of [...]

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How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 17, 2010

A couple of days ago David mentioned that the Mises Institute providing its entire online media and literature library as a set of free torrents can be seen as part of a distributed or grassroots intellectual guerrilla resistance against the state. This is just one aspect of the Mises Institute’s effort to be completely open [...]

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Stop the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

by Stephan Kinsella April 11, 2010

I blogged a year ago about the “Secret intellectual property treaty [that] could profoundly change life on the Internet.” At the time, the text was still secret but it was believed that the treaty: “seeks to set forth standards for enforcing cases of alleged copyright and patent infringement.” Now, as Cory Doctorow notes in How [...]

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