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Biella Coleman discovers how Piracy and Open Source have impacted hacking.
One of the core beliefs in the many subsets of hacker culture is that information should be freely accessible and shared. But there are two distinct ways of achieving this freedom of information - Piracy, and The Open Source.
Biella talks to Peter Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate bay, and Karen Sandler of the Software Freedom Conservancy, to discover how both movements have become entwined with the hacker community over the years, and which has the most potential to disrupt the increasingly monopolised world of tech development.
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Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the original co-founders of The Pirate Bay. He talks to us about the place of the Pirate Bay in Hacker history, the morality of copyright, and if Piracy and Open Source are in conflict with one another.
Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, former executive director of the GNOME Foundation, an attorney, and former general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center.
She talks to us about the ability to hack is at the heart of the Open Source movement, how Open Source has been co-opted by corporate interests, and why having access and control over our software can be a matter of life and death.
She talks to us about the ability to hack is at the heart of the Open Source movement, how Open Source has been co-opted by corporate interests, and why having access and control over our software can be a matter of life and death.
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Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world.
