{"id":796,"date":"2011-05-15T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mengos.net\/wp\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-05-15T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T11:59:17","slug":"operation-payback-is-a-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/operation-payback-is-a-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"operation payback (..is a bitch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mengos.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/operationpayback.jpg\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-898\" href=\"http:\/\/virtualactivism.net\/education\/?attachment_id=898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-898\" title=\"operationpayback\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/operationpayback.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/a>Pirates<\/strong> session<br \/>\nBurcu Bakioglu, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit7\/subs\/abstracts.html#bakioglu\" target=\"_blank\">Operation  Payback (\u2026is a Bitch): Hacktivism  at the dawn of Copyright Controversies<\/a><br \/>\nBodo Balasz, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit7\/subs\/abstracts.html#balasz\" target=\"_blank\">Informal Media Economies \u2013 What Can We Learn from the Pirates  of Yesteryear?<\/a><br \/>\nMartin Fredriksson, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit7\/subs\/abstracts.html#fredriksson\" target=\"_blank\">The Ideology of  Piracy and the Public Spheres of Modernity<\/a><br \/>\nJinying Li, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit7\/subs\/abstracts.html#jli\" target=\"_blank\">Piracy, Circulation,  and Cultural Control in Cyber-Age China<br \/>\n<\/a>moderator: <strong>Marcienne Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I was able to attend only the talk by Bakioglu.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>culture of piracy is what they call copypasta [or copy paste]. It is a subversive culture. Response to it was to extend regulation and limitation of piracy.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;culture&#8217; perceived any copyright issues as a threat to creativity, to corruption exposure, privacy, an act of criminalization of society, surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>They were a true networked society that was lateral: hoizontal modes of communication presenting alternative strategies of resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Sites of struggle: The Pirate Bay. This alternative form of protest took the form of hacktivism. It is non-violent civil disobedience [DDOS attacks, site defacements etc.]<\/li>\n<li>It used to be a sub-culture but now it is becoming mainstream.<\/li>\n<li>Wikileaks and Assange are a model. Nodes that exchange information and give power. One therefore needs to intercept flow of information and leak it out.<\/li>\n<li>Op Payback began when an Indian company was contracted and announced it would take down Pirate Bay [co. called aiplex.com].<\/li>\n<li>Case of ACS Law solicitors whose site was taken down and in effort to remedy problem hurriedly put their site back up and inadvertently published secret information that stayed online for two hours and the info proved it was damaging enough to the company because it exposed its illegal dealings. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates session Burcu Bakioglu, Operation Payback (\u2026is a Bitch): Hacktivism at the dawn of Copyright Controversies Bodo Balasz, Informal Media Economies \u2013 What Can We Learn from the Pirates of Yesteryear? Martin Fredriksson, The Ideology of Piracy and the Public <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/operation-payback-is-a-bitch\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,18,23,28,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-copyright","category-eventsconferences","category-intellectual-property","category-mit7","category-securityprivacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>operation payback (..is a bitch) - Education and Technology Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/operation-payback-is-a-bitch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"operation payback (..is a bitch) - Education and Technology Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pirates session Burcu Bakioglu, Operation Payback (\u2026is a Bitch): Hacktivism at the dawn of Copyright Controversies Bodo Balasz, Informal Media Economies \u2013 What Can We Learn from the Pirates of Yesteryear? 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