how free and open source software hackers destabilize intellectual property law through the novel rearticulation of free speech principles code and speech shapin and schaffer - leviathan and the airpump - gosh linguistic boundedness, autonomy in royal society "web of legitmacy and trust to conduct internal experiments" governance shifts, political philosophy embedded in scientific practise ip | authorising forms of censorship | free speech 'micropractises' anthropological theory, 'critical events', stabiliszing cultural mores dvd jon / skylarov "a more incipient free speech sensibility" ??? "FOSS's more radical political critique" DMCA and technical prevention measures over copyright distribution, rebroadcasting even without assent, becomes infringment 2600 journalistic right to emit code-as-speech interoperation of national legal structures and 'boundaries' in infringement diasporic conception of code-speech freedom -> "a much more overt commitment to the right of computer mastery" "privacy" as implementation moves away from centralised facilities onto personal machines, wireless networks decss in meta haiku -> decss gallery pythagoras said: "all is number" (Do they understand the content, or is it just the effects they see?) We write precisely, since such is our habit in talking to machines express ingenuity by routing around formal constraints "you will be shocked at how much time hackers give to each other" IP has moved recently into a space where it is a federal offense amateur legal scholarship and collective research for collective defense critical events and narrative subsumption "political agnosticism" (ethics) / (politics) "semiotics of neutrality" ??? linguistic ambiguity of freedom in english -> latour, network extension (recall that book on transport infrastructures that he made, that mfrumin has) foss, activism and anticorporatism neoliberal discourse (lessig) legitimisation of foss practise in corporate structures -> "positioned to perform an embedded critique" .. "a social performance of collective labour" (cf ShareAlike considered harmful) "the scope of politics exceeds intentional acts" political ambiguity -> more alive message rights, production, progress "at the cusp of new legal meanings" "boundaries as productive of specific relations in free information" "an embedded cultural critique" "a moment in time that shocks others into a process of cultural rethinking" a set of practises arise to de-emphasise shock (familiarity, alikeness) want to find biella's work on collective legal pedagogy (specif the debian contarct, debian-legal as study cases) licensing and voting the "public sphere" "dissecting the law", rule-speech-as-algorithm, so it has a fascination "alternative legal regimes" different languages in different places (france, brazil, norcal) tensions according to liberal theorists between different 'justice' formations in vernaculars hybrid - pidgin - wol wan tok incorporatedness - issue focus politics what messages of freedom we create (flavours of freedom, feedom (cf urgen on licensing, information being liberated by having a token cost - peer production swpat -> biotech, conceptual space being divided up "it's a matter of semiotics" being told not to look at the law, to remain 'innocent' through 'ignorance' and the cost of data discovery. "every legal construction occludes other possibilities" question about emergent law, technological "vehicle" biella now working on a "psychiatric survivors" project (preoccupation with autonomy, future direction, resistance to forced treatment, alteration) (being afraid to speak what one thinks?) (individualism / possession / self possession / self expression? ) "autonomy has become unsustainable", says the questioner, and there is a backlash against openess/choice in psychiatric practise. how conceptions of freedom are made culturally real, worked out, played out "open source biology" / "synthetic biology" as a domain that is being very directly affected by free software, hacker ethics, biohacking as nearly pure information scientific research already has a lot of openess values. biologists reuse and abuse the patent system in differnt ways "you have to contrib your data to see the other data"