Translated from German. Mr. Rieck notes YouTube’s use of its own platform to spread misinformation about Article 13 of the Copyright Directive. How does one pass legislation that the information monopoly does not want passed? YouTube’s new media order- Guest post by Volker Rieck. The streaming platform is exploiting its community for its own … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Volker Rieck. The article has been translated from German and originally appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Link here. We took liberties by changing the title of article for the English version. Other minor phrasing has also been americanized. – David Lowery After the manipulation is before the manipulation On … Continue reading
Editor note: This has been translated from original german text here. Of particular significance Mr. Rieck suggests that the websites associated with the political hack, OpenMedia, New/Mode, SaveYourInternet EU and (their cloned sub-websites appear to violating e-Commerce directive proper disclosures (ownership) and New/Mode violating GDPR on user data. Anatomy of a Policy Hack Part 2 … Continue reading
Guest post by Volker Rieck. Translated from German. Original article is here http://webschauder.de/anatomie-eines-politik-hacks/ The anatomy of an assault on politics The New Testament narrates numerous miracles attributed to Jesus Christ. One of them is the feeding of the multitude: Jesus is described as having multiplied a few loaves and fish so that five thousand … Continue reading
Google – A Pirate’s Best Friend Google appears to still be blissfully oblivious to its intentional or unintentional (but readily discernible) support for piracy websites. Google supports pirates in a variety of ways, and I will explore a few of them here. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has already been critical of Google’s … Continue reading
This article was written by my colleague Volker Rieck. It has been translated from German. It originally appeared here. While the failure of internet self governing bodies may seem far afield from my usual focus on artists’ rights, it is not. Artist rights and royalties have been greatly diminished because of a market failure caused … Continue reading
Guest Post Volker Rieck A year later: A review of the campaign against EU copyright reform More recent findings allow a closer look at the campaigns, their backgrounds and, in particular, the key players in financing them. About a year ago, the German protests against the reform of EU copyright law began. A group of … Continue reading
In summer 2018 the campaign platform Saveyourinternet.eu set up to fight against the EU copyright reform. The campaign was organized by C4C, which is mainly financed by the American CCIA and the Open Society Foundation. This was criticized at the time. The website Saveyourinternet was later “taken over“ by EDRi; C4C was out. Now there is a … Continue reading
<Editors note Original German Version of this article here. http://webschauder.de/tricksen-tarnen-taeuschen/ We appreciate Volker connecting the dots for us in the increasingly murky lobbying campaign by Google against Article 13. The counter-narrative has already started–Google is using cherry-picked facts to try to make Members of the European Parliament believe that they are being outlobbied … Continue reading
Guest Post by Volker Rieck. Translated from German. Original here. Astroturf instead of grass roots: When clicktivism meets hard reality Last weekend, several organizations called for a “Day of Action” with demonstrations throughout Europe against the planned EU Copyright Directive. Among the supporters of the events were the Pirate Party, the Left, the Greens and … Continue reading
