Ex-Nazis condone P2P. The Italian fascists choose lobbies instead
Seasoned by the usually out of line comments by Brokep, The Pirate Bay block currently affecting half of Italy has aroused a partially off-topic controversy on the state of things about freedom of expression in the country, the lasting presence of a despotic creeping regime and the obscure interlacements between the magistracy and the multimedia industry lobbies. I think that some clarifications on the matter, for the Italians as like as for the international public, are perhaps needed.
It’s well known that Italy isn’t in a particularly good moment for the civil rights and human dignity: bloggers are forced to silence by a legal practice inadequate to the new technologies and to the information society, while the media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi fulfills his 15 years of reign on a nation heavily conditioned by his televisions and newspapers by promulgating, for himself and his fellows, a safe-conduct that makes them practically immune from the law judgement.
From several points of view, the twenty-years fascism is never arrived to the level of civil perversion which Italy of 2008 has achieved: Mussolini had the black squadrons around the country and the Min.Cul.Pop. to control the information, while Berlusconi has skilfully built the consensus of the crowd through the obsessive-compulsive reproposition of a cultural model based on money and semblance, a model that is now victorious and that has rewarded him with extremely positive results in the last political elections.
So the Swedish admin of The Pirate Bay has gone too far with the simplification, demonstrating how in foreign countries Italy continue to be a puzzling nation or at least difficult to be defined. Of course, as stated by himself, Peter Sunde didn’t want to define “fascist” an entire nation, as rather the power frameworks still behaving like the ones of the fascist regime.
Unfortunately for the public relations of Sunde with the Italians, here too the aim is wrong: the admin defines “lackey of Silvio Berlusconi” the public prosecutor of Bergamo which has started the block to The Pirate Bay, when actually the Italian judicial power is the first victim of the Berlusconian regime and of these 15 years full of ad-personam laws, tv-political shows and ministers saying “vaffanculo” to the national flag and anthem.
Brokep continues to use the “fascist” metaphor even when he announces, clearly pleased about that, to have experimented an increase in traffic from Italy to the Bay thanks to free advertising roused by the half-flop of the attempted block. Actually the dialectic fancy of Sunde refers more to past than to present times, and probably this is the reason for that most of the netizens and P2Per of the Belpaese have reacted so badly to such a definition. According to what is reported by TorrentFreak the born of IFPI, the music majors international organization that has denounced TPB to the prosecutors of Bergamo, has been largely fostered by the regime of Benito Mussolini in 1933.
IFPI is born in the country that has generated fascism in the womb of Europe, the same country where now the organization tries to defend its monopolistic interests against the unhinging action of the Bay, so the initiative to block it can be defined as a work of “fascists”. The syllogism of brokep is way too much simple to be correct or sharable, and it’s ultimately ungenerous with a country that has tried at least, in more than 50 years of republican Constitution, to shake off that revolting past which instead has overbearingly returned in the limelight under new and more mellifluous shapes thanks to the pensée unique of the winning Berlusconism.
Where the considerations and the speculations of brokep are absolutely sharable instead is when he highlights the connivance, or at least a collaborationism that should not exist among the powers of a democratic state, between the magistracy and the majors. As pointed out by the Swedish pirate, by making a reverse look-up on the IP address of the page (go easy with the click here…) on which one is redirected by the ISPs that still stand to the countermeasures of TPB he finds that the IP is owned by Pro-Music, the mega-cartel of the recording labels of which IFPI itself is part.
The traffic hijacking toward a system managed by the majors, warns brokep, can let them to nose into the web cookies of surfers that, if incidentally were Pirate Bay users also, could reveal the searched torrents, the site password, the session information and so on. When in this case the Swedish admin talks about “IFPI getting into bed with the police” he is very right, underlining as the above said collaborationism has become a “disturbing” practice more and more widespread in countries that should be democratic, with Constitutions full of so much nice words on the inviolable principle of powers separation and on the safeguard of the equidistance of the law from the involved parties, be they “pirates” of the file sharing or industry lobbies eager for reaffirming, always and forever, their interests in spite of the public one.
And what’s about the Nazis? Everything and nothing: just before the mid of August the public prosecutors of the German land of North Rhine-Westphalia have announced a sort of moratorium toward who is engaging in P2P for personal use, setting to 3000 euros/audio tracks and 200 movies (a damage estimated for 15 euros for each one) shared the lowest limit required to activate the judiciary machine. If we would apply the “fascist” metaphor by brokep to the German case it could be said that, while in Italy the creeping interweaving between the powers and the corporations not only doesn’t dissolve itself but gets worse with the new technologies, the country that wanted to wipe out the Jews shows the will to answer to the modernity challenges with decisions that take into consideration the interests of everyone and not only the ones of the powerful lobbies of the majors. “They” are ex-Nazis, “we” continue to be fascists (and corporative) to all intents and purposes.
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