Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke.
It features interviews with many people with various perspectives on copyright, including copyright lawyers, producers, artists and filesharing service providers.
A central point of the documentary is the thesis that "creativity itself is on the line" and that a balance needs to be struck, or that there is a conflict, between protecting the right of those who own intellectual property and the rights of future generations to create.
Milk & Serial is a 62-minute, found-footage horror by YouTuber Curry Barker, and it manages to be at once ruthlessly effective and wonderfully authentic. Racking up 348,000 views in the two weeks since its release, its popularity has been supercharged by raves on Reddit that have since crossed over into traditional media. Bloody Disgusting called it “one of the year’s best-kept secrets” and this week Barker found himself being interviewed by no less than Variety.
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.
Homeland Security, the DEA, the FBI and even the Secret Service mounted multiple investigations in the largest online manhunt the world had ever seen. But it would be a young tax inspector from the IRS, who had grown up in the projects of Brooklyn, who would finally crack the case and unmask 'DPR'.
With unparalleled access, Silk Road is a thrilling cat-and-mouse crime story for the digital age, bristling with intrigue, mayhem... and murder.
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin and the blockchain. For the first time in history, his invention made it possible to send money around the globe without banks, governments or any other intermediaries. The concept of the blockchain isn’t very intuitive. But still, many people believe it is a game changer.
Economist and filmmaker Manuel Stagars portrays this exciting technology in interviews with software developers, cryptologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants, VCs, authors, politicians, and futurists from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and Australia.
The Blockchain and Us is no explainer video of the technology. It gives a view on the topic, makes it accessible and starts a conversation about its potential wider implications in a non-technical way. The film deliberately poses more questions than it answers.
Lars Thomsen
Chief Futurist & Founder, Future Matters
Zurich, Switzerland
Eric Van der Kleij
Founder Adeptra, London Tech City, Level39. Adviser UK Govt, Kickstart Accelerator
London, UK
Roger Wattenhofer
Professor, Distributed Computing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
Rik Willard
Founder & Managing Director, Agentic Group
New York, USA
Steve Wilson
Digital Identity Innovator & Analyst
Sydney, Australia
Additional conversations and special thanks (in alphabetical order): Iris Belle, Ben Bledsoe, Thomas Bromehead, Richard Cheng, Dario Duran, Marie Farrar Knowles, Olga Feldmeier, Sony Fricker, Daniel Gasteiger, Daniel Grassinger, Johs. Hoehener, Richard Kastelein, Leanne Kemp, Thomas Kern, Francine Klopfenstein, Veronica Lange, Claire LaRocca, Adriano B. Lucatelli, Christian Mäder, Ruedi Maeder, Luzius Meisser, Michael Monceaux, Martin Müller, Mia Mutic, Ian Petchenik, Nathaniel Popper, Ramon Quesada, Kamesh Raghavendra, Brian Rogers, Jouko Salonen, Vadim Shamigulov, Raffaela Stelzer, Don Tapscott, Elizabeth Wesson
Many thanks to all conversation partners and all others who made this film possible
Additional thanks (in alphabetical order): Agentic Group, Blockchain News, Blockstream, Bloq, Chamber of Digital Commerce, Constellation Research, Consult Hyperion, Cryptocash, Deloitte Switzerland, Ethereum Foundation, Everledger, Flightradar24, Future Matters, ISO-20022.ch, Lightning, Lockstep Consulting, Municipality of Zug, nexussquared, Northwest Passage Ventures, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Swiss Re, Symbiont, World Economic Forum (WEF), Zurich Airport
Recording of live air traffic courtesy of Flightradar24
Chinese subtitles: Richard Cheng
Dutch subtitles: Rein Jonkman
French translation: Thomas Bromehead
Portuguese subtitles: Caio Rearte
Russian subtitles: Vadim Shamigulov, Sergey Sevantsyan
Spanish subtitles: Jose Felip Daras and Avalbit.org team
Many thanks to all individuals and teams who contributed additional subtitles and translations.
Cinematography, Editing, Music, Narration & Sound Design by Manuel Stagars
The goal of this film is to encourage the conversation about the economic and social impacts of blockchain technology. Participate in the comments and subscribe to the channel to stay in the loop.
Jon Ronson discovers a twitter spam bot with the username Jon_Ronson. The
spam bot was created by academics working formerly at Warwick University. Jon
Ronson discusses his frustration with the fact many of the tweets seem
plausible, even though they are about things he would never talk about
himself. With the creators of this account refusing to take it down, it
seems the only way to resolve this is by meeting them.
Part Two
Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot
'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this
interview, he discovers the academics' true agenda.
ABOUT ESCAPE & CONTROL: Escape
& Control is an online documentary series in which internationally
acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with
Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Psychopath Test) turns
his attentions to the Internet.
It can sometimes feel like we're
creating a new kind of democracy online, where we control and regulate
each other instead of being told how to behave by those in authority.
But there are people out there who don't like this idea at all. So they
want to come up with ways to control it.
Sometimes maybe even secret ways...
With
searing interviews, unravelling mysteries and some great fun along the
way, Jon Ronson is setting off on an adventure that may mean you'll
never look at your mouse in the same way again.
CREDITS: Written and Directed by Jon Ronson Music by Jeffrey Lewis Filmed, edited and produced by Remy Lamont Produced by Lucy Greenwell
In 2014 Jon Ronson gave a talk about his experience with the spambot:
We Live in Public is a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner which profiles Internet pioneer Josh Harris. It has as its theme the loss of privacy in the internet age.
We
Live in Public was screened six times at the Sundance Film Festival
before being awarded the Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S. documentary
category at the Sundance Film Festival.[6] Timoner is the first director
in the history of the Sundance film festival to win the grand jury
award twice.[7] Her first win was in 2004 for the widely acclaimed
documentary, DIG!
The film was also the runner-up for 'Best Documentary' at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the
hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement
and beyond.
Mesh networking (topology) is a type of networking where each node must not only capture and disseminate its own data, but also serve as a relay for other nodes, that is, it must collaborate to propagate the data in the network.
A mesh network can be designed using a flooding technique or a routing technique. When using a routing technique, the message propagates along a path, by hopping
from node to node until the destination is reached. To ensure all its
paths' availability, a routing network must allow for continuous
connections and reconfiguration around broken or blocked paths, using self-healing algorithms. A mesh network whose nodes are all connected to each other is a fully connected network. Mesh networks can be seen as one type of ad hoc network. Mobile ad hoc networks
(MANET) and mesh networks are therefore closely related, but MANET also
have to deal with the problems introduced by the mobility of the nodes.
The self-healing capability enables a routing based network to
operate when one node breaks down or a connection goes bad. As a result,
the network is typically quite reliable, as there is often more than
one path between a source and a destination in the network. Although
mostly used in wireless scenarios, this concept is also applicable to
wired networks and software interaction.
