Category: Piracy is Liberation

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There’s an article about me in Sydsvenskan today (and if you look closely at the photo, you can see what’s on my T-shirt). I thought I’d celebrate that (and my upcoming birthday) by posting some new pages from my upcoming Piracy is Liberation book 005: Free Section… These aren’t finished yet, but I like to pretend that I’m working as hard as I should, so view them as work in progress.

There’s also something that wasn’t mentioned in the article, which is my Angry Animals comic. Sooner or later, I will have enough of these to fill a book, but for now they can be read in some different places. Like older issues of Mana and my website…

Violence exhibition pt 4.

There are some who would claim that piracy is theft. Of course, the rest of us know this to be false.

Let me explain. One of the main characteristics of the phenomenon of theft if that the former owner is deprived of the stolen object. Copying the object is something entirely else. Anyhow…

Someone seems to have stolen one of the images from the Violence exhibition (this one):

Obviously the most popular of the exhibition, and I am flattered that someone would go to the trouble of stealing it. Though I have some problems with it.

1. Everyone won’t be able to see the entire exhibition.

2. I paid money for printing the images. If I don’t get paid through selling the images, I won’t get that money back and it was taken from the budget for the next Piracy is Liberation graphic novel…

3. I know I had a third reason, but I forgot…

Here’s an idea: Instead of stealing the exhibition (assuming you can’t afford to buy anything but still want a Piracy image on your wall), download one of the first two books and print a page to put on your wall. It’s free and hurts no one!

Piracys is Liberation 001: Information Wants to be Free @ TPB

Piracys is Liberation 002: Infotrip @ TPB

New end date for Violence at Panora: October 15!

Violence exhibition pt 2.

Vibracathedral Orchestra – Weaving the Magic

The Violence exhibition is up and running. So is the European Social Forum. And at the same time as Violence opened, fittingly enough, something else took place. The local cops stages a wild protest against their own union. I wonder if they had a permit for their demonstration. I wonder who will beat them up if their thing goes out of hand?

Anyway. Here’s a photo of a part of the exhibition:

The prints are 110x86cm. They can be bought for 500 SEK/copy. Contact me ( mattias@elftorp.com ) to order…

Well. That’s it. I’m going to bed.

Loop Orchestra – Cirka 1901

Violence exhibition!

This is an exhibition of the story called Violence (which will be published in Piracy is Liberation 006: Violence). It is also a comment on the political climate in Malmö.

Police are sent in by social democrats against constitutionally protected actions taken by the union. They force children up against the wall, accusing them of crimes they couldn’t possibly have committed, simply because they look like immigrants.

Time and again, the police prove that they aren’t here to protect us but to control, to hold anyone back who dares to stray outside of the norms of what it’s supposed to mean to be Swedish.

The exhibition is dedicated to Malmö 26, the 26 who were indicted for being on the picket line against a sushi restaurant at Lilla Torg in Malmö.

Organizers: C’est Bon Kultur & Folkets Bio Malmö

While on drugs…

Page 1 from the upcoming Piracy is Liberation 005: Free Section:

I’m a bit behind schedule with this book, for good and bad reasons, but I still have hopes of printing it before the end of September. We’ll see…

Listening to Angelic Upstarts – Leave Me Alone.

Wondering why my scanner seems to have stopped working…

Here’s an illustration recently published in local newspaper (Helsingborgs Dagblad):

This weblog

I intend to use this blog to share inspiration.

I will talk about things that inspire me (media/culture/reality) and also talk about things I’m working on.
Mainly my cyberpunk postapocalyse comics project, Piracy is Liberation.

Piracy is Liberation is political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction
in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse.

This is me:
www.elftorp.com
www.elftorp.com/freeinformation
www.elftorp.com/infotrip (currently under reconstruction)
www.myspace.com/elftorp

and I’m currently listening to

Ministry – The Great Satan

Welcome to the world of Piracy is Liberation

Ministry – Faith collapsing + Skinmechanix – Overflight

Last week, I found this blog entry by Edge Node: CyberPunk is now

Yesterday, the Swedish government passed a law that allows them to monitor all communications crossing the Swedish border. Which means that they can hear anything we say, basically. Of course, this is nothing new. They’ve been doing this for years.

But now it’s legal.

I think it also says something about the Swedish society in general, that they think they can pass this kind of law without repercussions (and, even worse, that they actually do get away with it).

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So, let’s encrypt everything we do. Here are some links I hear are good (havenät tried it all myself yet):

OTR (Off The Record encryption) for pidgin 2.x:
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-3.2.0-1.exe

Pidgin is an application for managing different kinds of Instans Messaging, ICQ, MSN, and so on: http://pidgin.im/

GPG (an implementation of OpenPGP) for Firefox:
http://getfiregpg.org/

Enigmail, for Thunderbird (e-mail):
http://redlib.subcult.org/2008/06/gpg-skyddar-din-epost-frn-fra.html
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That’s all for now. I need whisky.

This is me:
www.elftorp.com
www.elftorp.com/freeinformation
www.elftorp.com/infotrip (currently under reconstruction)
www.myspace.com/elftorp

Ministry – World
»The time is right for decision
The time is right for those with something to say
This is the world I envision
The type of world where people aren’t afraid«