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- <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped. As the translation is
-mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
-on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
-<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> based version of the
-<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> book by Lawrence
-Lessig. I've been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
-give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
-its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
-helpful in solving my formatting challenges.</p>
-
-<p>Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
-<a href="http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu.com</a> complain after uploading,
-and I ordered a text version of the book on paper. It is lacking a
-proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
-should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.</p>
-
-<p>Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
-<a href="http://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace</a>, but ended up
-using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
-to lack pocket book with extended distribution). I looked for a
-similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far. Please
-let me know if I am missing out on something here.</p>
-
-<p>But I still struggle to decide the book size. Should I go for
-pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, digest
-(5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
-15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages? Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
-smaller book is easier to carry around. The test book I ordered was
-pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
-but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
-bring the prize down further.</p>
-
-<p>My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art. My
-inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
-cover in SVG format. I also need to figure out what to write about
-the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
-description on web based book stores). I would love help with this,
-if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
-the same CC license as the book. My artistic skills are not really up
-to the task.</p>
-
-<p>I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
-paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format. The current
-status can as usual be found on
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
-in the archive/ directory. So far I have spent all time on making the
-PDF version look good. Someone should probably do the same with the
-dbtoepub generated e-book. Help is definitely needed here, as I
-expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
-formatting.</p>
-
-<p>Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
-discover translations that should be improved. The final proof
-reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
-result in a few months.</p>
+ <title>Snurpenot-overvåkning av sensitiv personinformasjon</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Snurpenot_overv_kning_av_sensitiv_personinformasjon.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Snurpenot_overv_kning_av_sensitiv_personinformasjon.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Tenk om et norsk sykehus delte informasjon om hva som blir lest og
+hvem som leser på sykehusets nettsted, med noen som samarbeider med et
+fremmed lands etterretningsvesen, og at flere andre fremmede lands
+etterretningstjenester kan snappe opp informasjonen.</p>
+
+<p>Tenk om flere sykehus, kommuner, helsestasjoner, universitet,
+høyskoler, grunnskoler, Stortinget, det meste av offentlig
+forvaltning, medier, adopsjonstjenester og krisesenter gjør det
+samme?</p>
+
+<p>Tenk om de som lytter kan holde oversikt over norske borgeres
+interesser, sykdommer, rusmisbruk, adopsjon, abort, barnehager,
+politiske interesser og sympatier samt hvilke argumenter som har best
+effekt på beslutningstagere og måter de kan påvirkes. Ville det gitt
+grunn til bekymring?</p>
+
+<p>Høres det ut som noe tatt ut fra fantasien til George Orwell,
+forfatteren av dystopien 1984? Det er virkeligheten i Norge i dag,
+takket være bruken av statistikktjenester som Google Analytics.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Du kan beskytte deg</strong></p>
+
+<p>Men borgerne har et forsvar mot dette angrepet på privatsfæren.
+Dagens nettlesere har utvidelser som støtter å blokkere slik
+utlevering av informasjon. Personlig bruker jeg Privacy Badger,
+Ghostery, NoScript og AdBlock, og anbefaler alle å gjøre noe
+tilsvarende. Merk at noen av verktøyene lekker informasjon, i tillegg
+til å gjøre en nyttig jobb, så det er lurt å bruke flere sammen. I
+tillegg bør hver og en av oss sende inn protest til organisasjonene
+bak nettsteder som bidrar til dette inngrepet i privatsfæren.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem bidrar til overvåkningen?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Takket være Ghostery la jeg merke til at flere og flere norske
+nettsteder begynte å la Google Analytics overvåke brukerne. Jeg ble
+nysgjerrig på hvor mange det gjaldt, og gikk igjennom ca. 2700 norske
+nettsteder, hovedsakelig offentlig forvaltning. Jeg laget et system
+for å koble seg opp automatisk og sjekke hvor nettstedene spredte
+informasjon om besøket. Jeg ble overrasket både over omfanget og hva
+slags nettsteder som rapporterer besøksinformasjon ut av landet.
+Omtrent 70 prosent av de 2700 sender informasjon til Google Analytics.
+Noen tilfeldige eksempler er Akershus Universitetssykehus, Sykehuset
+Østfold, Lommelegen, Oslo krisesenter, Stortinget, den norske
+regjering, de fleste politiske partier på Stortinget, NAV, Altinn,
+NRK, TV2, Helse Førde, Helse Stavanger, Oslo kommune,
+Nasjonalbiblioteket, Pasientombudet, Kongehuset, Politiet,
+Teknologirådet, Tollvesenet, Norsk romsenter, Forsvarsbygg og
+Sivilforsvaret. Og det er mange flere.</p>
+
+<p>Hvordan kan det offentlige Norge omfavne en slik praksis? Det er
+gode hensikter bak. Google har laget en god tjeneste for
+nettstedseiere, der de uten å betale med noe annet enn en bit av de
+besøkenes privatsfære får tilgang til nyttig og presis statistikk over
+nettstedets bruk ved å besøke netttjenesten hos Google. De færreste
+merker ulempene angrepet på privatsfæren som nettstedene og Google
+utgjør.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan foregår det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I nettsider kan nettsteder legge inn lenker til programkode som
+skal kjøres av brukerens nettleser. De som tar i bruk Google
+Analytics legger typisk inn lenke til et javascript-program hos Google
+som ber nettleseren ta kontakt med Google og dele IP-adresse, side
+besøkt, aktuelle cookies og endel informasjon om nettleseren med
+Google Analytics. Programmet trenger ikke være det samme for alle som
+henter det fra Google. Det finnes et Google Analytics-tilvalg kalt
+«anonymisering» som nettstedeier kan ta i bruk. Dette instruerer det
+omtalte programmet om å be Google slette deler av den oversendte
+IP-adressen. Full IP-adresse sendes likevel over og er tilgjengelig
+for alle som snapper opp informasjonen underveis.</p>
+
+<p>Takket være varsleren Edward Snowden, som bidro til uvurderlig
+dokumentasjon på snurpenot-overvåkningen som nordmenn blir utsatt for,
+vet vi at Google samarbeider med USAs etteretning som avlytter trafikk
+sendt til Google Analytics.</p>
+
+<p>Men allerede før Snowden var det bekreftet at både britiske GCHQ og
+USAs NSA avlytter og lagrer blant annet Internett-trafikk som er innom
+et av landene, i tillegg til at FRA i Sverige avlytter og lagrer
+trafikk som passerte grensa til Sverige.</p>
+
+<p>Og som
+<a href="http://www.dn.no/tekno/2013/02/03/amerikanerne-kan-se-hvert-ord-du-skriver">Datatilsynet
+sa til Dagens Næringsliv i 2013</a> kunne de vanskelig nekte bruk av
+skytjenester som Google Analytics når Norge var bundet av EUs «Safe
+Harbour»-avtale med USA. De måtte derfor se bort fra
+f.eks. FISAAA-loven (som lar NSA avlytte Internett-trafikk) i sine
+vurderinger. Når nå EUs «Safe Harbour»-avtale er underkjent, og det
+foreslås å bruke individuell avtalerett mellom selskaper som juridisk
+grunnlag for å sende personopplysninger til USA, er det greit å huske
+på at FISAA-loven og andre som brukes av USA som grunnlag for
+masseovervåkning overstyrer slike avtaler.</p>
+
+<p>For øvrig burde varsleren Edward Snowden få politisk asyl i
+Norge.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I'm still working on the Norwegian version of the
-<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig</a>, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
-One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
-original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
-chapter. Based on the
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/685063">feedback from the Debian
-maintainer and the dblatex developer</a>, I came up with this recipe I
-would like to share with you. The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
-class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
-practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
-file variable. So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
-parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
-the generated LaTeX File.</p>
-
-<p>First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
-and add this text there:</p>
-
-<pre>
-&lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&gt;
-</pre>
-
-<p>Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
-code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
-generated LaTeX document, with content like this:</p>
-
-<pre>
-&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
-&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
- &lt;xsl:param name="latex.begindocument"&gt;
- &lt;xsl:text&gt;
-\usepackage{endnotes}
-\let\footnote=\endnote
-\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
-\begin{document}
- &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:param&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre>
-
-<p>Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
-this:</p>
-
-<pre>
-dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
-</pre>
-
-<p>The end result can be seen on github, where
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
-book project</a> is located.</p>
+ <title>TISA - nok en problematisk og hemmelig handelsavtale</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TISA___nok_en_problematisk_og_hemmelig_handelsavtale.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TISA___nok_en_problematisk_og_hemmelig_handelsavtale.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Norge er aktiv i Trade in Services Agreement-forhandlingene, og
+regjeringen forteller at
+«<a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/utenrikssaker/handelspolitikk/tisa/id2403335/">TISA
+vil sikre norske tjenesteeksportører forutsigbar og
+ikke-diskriminerende adgang til utenlandske tjenestemarkeder</a>».
+Det er mulig at det stemmer. Men den gjør mye mer enn det. Avtalen
+forhandles i hemmelighet, og kun takket være
+<a href="https://wikileaks.org/tisa/">Wikileaks</a> er
+utkast og biter kjent i offentligheten. Det som er blitt kjent er
+for eksempel at TISA kan
+<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/06324931218/tisa-agreement-might-outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.shtml">blokkere
+myndigheter fra å kreve bruk av fri programvare i mange
+situasjoner</a>, hvilket vil fjerne muligheten vår til å ha kontroll
+over egne datasystemer i slike tilfeller. Den kan også
+<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet">blokkere
+Norges mulighet til å holde kontroll med overføring av
+personinformasjon ut av landet</a>, hvilket Snowden-bekreftelsene har
+dokumentert er svært problematisk.
+
+<p>Jeg ble derfor veldig glad da jeg i dag ble tipset i dag om at det
+allerede finnes en aktiv organisasjon,
+<a href="http://www.folkeaksjonenmottisa.no/">Folkeaksjonen mot
+TISA</a>, som jobber for å hindre at Norge signerer på TISA-avtalen.
+Her må alle gode krefter jobbe sammen. Jeg skal sende dem litt
+penger, og se om jeg har kapasitet til å bidra med mer.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys
-<a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a>.
-Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/NUUG_lanserer_innsynstjenesten_Mimes_Br_nn.shtml">annonsert
-av NUUG</a> via blogg, epost og twitter til NUUG-assosierte personer.
-Det har tatt noen år, men de siste dagene fikk vi endelig tid til å få
-på plass de siste bitene. Vi er to, Gorm og meg selv, som har vært
-primus motor for det hele, men vi har fått hjelp med oversettelser og
-oppsett fra mange flere. Jeg vil si tusen takk til hver og en av dem,
-og er veldig fornøyd med at vi klarte å få tjenesten opp å kjøre før
-ferietiden slo inn for fullt.</p>
-
-<p>Vi er usikker på hvor mye belastning den virtuelle maskinen der
-tjenesten kjører klarer, så vi har lansert litt i det stille og ikke
-til for mange folk for å se hvordan maskinen klarer seg over sommeren,
-før vi går mer aktivt ut og annonserer til høsten. Ta en titt, og se
-om du kanskje har et spørsmål til det offentlige som er egnet å sende
-inn via Mimes brønn.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til,
-anbefaler jeg deg å se
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625321">TED-foredraget til
-Heather Brook</a> om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære
-hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt. Det er en inspirerende
-historie.</p>
+ <title>Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>In Norway, all government offices are required by law to keep a
+list of every document or letter arriving and leaving their offices.
+Internal notes should also be documented. The document list (called a mail
+journal - "postjournal" in Norwegian) is public information and thanks
+to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) the mail
+journal is available for everyone. Most offices even publish the mail
+journal on their web pages, as PDFs or tables in web pages. The state-level offices even have a shared web based search service (called
+<a href="https://www.oep.no/">Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal -
+OEP</a>) to make it possible to search the entries in the list. Not
+all journal entries show up on OEP, and the search service is hard to
+use, but OEP does make it easier to find at least some interesting
+journal entries .</p>
+
+<p>In 2012 I came across a document in the mail journal for the
+Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications on OEP that
+piqued my interest. The title of the document was
+"<a href="https://www.oep.no/search/resultSingle.html?journalPostId=4192362">Internet
+Governance and how it affects national security</a>" (Norwegian:
+"Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet"). The
+document date was 2012-05-22, and it was said to be sent from the
+"Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations". I asked for a
+copy, but my request was rejected with a reference to a legal clause said to authorize them to reject it
+(<a href="http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20">offentleglova § 20,
+letter c</a>) and an explanation that the document was exempt because
+of foreign policy interests as it contained information related to the
+Norwegian negotiating position, negotiating strategies or similar. I
+was told the information in the document related to the ongoing
+negotiation in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The
+explanation made sense to me in early January 2013, as a ITU
+conference in Dubay discussing Internet Governance
+(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#World_Conference_on_International_Telecommunications_2012_.28WCIT-12.29">World
+Conference on International Telecommunications - WCIT-12</a>) had just
+ended,
+<a href="http://www.digi.no/kommentarer/2012/12/18/tvil-om-usas-rolle-pa-teletoppmote">reportedly
+in chaos</a> when USA walked out of the negotiations and 25 countries
+including Norway refused to sign the new treaty. It seemed
+reasonable to believe talks were still going on a few weeks later.
+Norway was represented at the ITU meeting by two authorities, the
+<a href="http://www.nkom.no/">Norwegian Communications Authority</a>
+and the <a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/sd/">Ministry of
+Transport and Communications</a>. This might be the reason the letter
+was sent to the ministry. As I was unable to find the document in the
+mail journal of any Norwegian UN mission, I asked the ministry who had
+sent the document to the ministry, and was told that it was the Deputy
+Permanent Representative with the Permanent Mission of Norway in
+Geneva.</p>
+
+<p>Three years later, I was still curious about the content of that
+document, and again asked for a copy, believing the negotiation was
+over now. This time
+<a href="https://mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914">I
+asked both the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the
+receiver</a> and
+<a href="https://mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p">asked
+the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva as the sender</a> for a
+copy, to see if they both agreed that it should be withheld from the
+public. The ministry upheld its rejection quoting the same law
+reference as before, while the permanent mission rejected it quoting a
+different clause
+(<a href="http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20">offentleglova § 20
+letter b</a>), claiming that they were required to keep the
+content of the document from the public because it contained
+information given to Norway with the expressed or implied expectation
+that the information should not be made public. I asked the permanent
+mission for an explanation, and was told that the document contained
+an account from a meeting held in the Pentagon for a limited group of NATO
+nations where the organiser of the meeting did not intend the content
+of the meeting to be publicly known. They explained that giving me a
+copy might cause Norway to not get access to similar information in
+the future and thus hurt the future foreign interests of Norway. They
+also explained that the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was not
+the author of the document, they only got a copy of it, and because of
+this had not listed it in their mail journal.</p>
+
+<p>Armed with this
+knowledge I asked the Ministry to reconsider and asked who was the
+author of the document, now realising that it was not same as the
+"sender" according to Ministry of Transport and Communications. The
+ministry upheld its rejection but told me the name of the author of
+the document. According to
+<a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/unga69_rapport1/id2001204/">a
+government report</a> the author was with the Permanent Mission of
+Norway in New York a bit more than a year later (2014-09-22), so I
+guessed that might be the office responsible for writing and sending
+the report initially and
+<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/mote_2012_i_pentagon_om_itu">asked
+them for a copy</a> but I was obviously wrong as I was told that the
+document was unknown to them and that the author did not work there
+when the document was written. Next, I asked the Permanent Mission of
+Norway in Geneva and the Foreign Ministry to reconsider and at least
+tell me who sent the document to Deputy Permanent Representative with
+the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva. The Foreign Ministry also
+upheld its rejection, but told me that the person sending the document
+to Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was the defence attaché with
+the Norwegian Embassy in Washington. I do not know if this is the
+same person as the author of the document.</p>
+
+<p>If I understand the situation correctly, someone capable of
+inviting selected NATO nations to a meeting in Pentagon organised a
+meeting where someone representing the Norwegian defence attaché in
+Washington attended, and the account from this meeting is interpreted
+by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to expose Norways
+negotiating position, negotiating strategies and similar regarding the
+ITU negotiations on Internet Governance. It is truly amazing what can
+be derived from mere meta-data.</p>
+
+<p>I wonder which NATO countries besides Norway attended this meeting?
+And what exactly was said and done at the meeting? Anyone know?</p>
</description>
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- <title>MPEG LA on "Internet Broadcast AVC Video" licensing and non-private use</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK)
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html">why
-they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with
-the MPEG LA</a>, I was wiser, but still confused. So I asked MPEG LA
-if their understanding matched that of NRK. As far as I can tell, it
-does not.</p>
-
-<p>I started by asking for more information about the various
-licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the "Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video" class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK
-did not need a license for streaming H.264 video:
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>According to
-<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf">a
-MPEG LA press release dated 2010-02-02</a>, there is no charge when
-using MPEG AVC/H.264 according to the terms of "Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video". I am trying to understand exactly what the terms of "Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video" is, and wondered if you could help me. What
-exactly is covered by these terms, and what is not?</p>
-
-<p>The only source of more information I have been able to find is a
-PDF named
-<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf">AVC
-Patent Portfolio License Briefing</a>, which states this about the
-fees:</p>
+ <title>New book, "Fri kultur" by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of "Free Culture" from 2004</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I
+published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs
+book <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a>. It was
+published on paper via lulu.com, and is also available in PDF, ePub
+and MOBI format. I currently sell the paper edition for self cost
+from lulu.com, but might extend the distribution to book stores like
+Amazon and Barnes & Noble later. This will double the price and force
+me to make a profit from selling the book. Anyway, here are links to
+get the book in different formats:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Where End User pays for AVC Video
- <ul>
- <li>Subscription (not limited by title) – 100,000 or fewer
- subscribers/yr = no royalty; &gt; 100,000 to 250,000 subscribers/yr =
- $25,000; &gt;250,000 to 500,000 subscribers/yr = $50,000; &gt;500,000 to
- 1M subscribers/yr = $75,000; &gt;1M subscribers/yr = $100,000</li>
-
- <li>Title-by-Title - 12 minutes or less = no royalty; &gt;12 minutes in
- length = lower of (a) 2% or (b) $0.02 per title</li>
- </ul></li>
-
- <li>Where remuneration is from other sources
- <ul>
- <li>Free Television - (a) one-time $2,500 per transmission encoder or
- (b) annual fee starting at $2,500 for &gt; 100,000 HH rising to
- maximum $10,000 for &gt;1,000,000 HH</li>
-
- <li>Internet Broadcast AVC Video (not title-by-title, not subscription)
- – no royalty for life of the AVC Patent Portfolio License</li>
- </ul></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html">Buy
+ paper edition from lulu.com</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf">Download
+ PDF, size 7.9 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li>
+
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub">Download
+ ePub, size 11 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li>
+
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi">Download
+ MOBI, size 3.8 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li>
+
</ul>
-<p>Am I correct in assuming that the four categories listed is the
-categories used when selecting licensing terms, and that "Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video" is the category for things that do not fall into
-one of the other three categories? Can you point me to a good source
-explaining what is ment by "title-by-title" and "Free Television" in
-the license terms for AVC/H.264?</p>
-
-<p>Will a web service providing H.264 encoded video content in a
-"video on demand" fashing similar to Youtube and Vimeo, where no
-subscription is required and no payment is required from end users to
-get access to the videos, fall under the terms of the "Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video", ie no royalty for life of the AVC Patent
-Portfolio license? Does it matter if some users are subscribed to get
-access to personalized services?</p>
-
-<p>Note, this request and all answers will be published on the
-Internet.</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The answer came quickly from Benjamin J. Myers, Licensing Associate
-with the MPEG LA:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-<p>Thank you for your message and for your interest in MPEG LA. We
-appreciate hearing from you and I will be happy to assist you.</p>
-
-<p>As you are aware, MPEG LA offers our AVC Patent Portfolio License
-which provides coverage under patents that are essential for use of
-the AVC/H.264 Standard (MPEG-4 Part 10). Specifically, coverage is
-provided for end products and video content that make use of AVC/H.264
-technology. Accordingly, the party offering such end products and
-video to End Users concludes the AVC License and is responsible for
-paying the applicable royalties.</p>
-
-<p>Regarding Internet Broadcast AVC Video, the AVC License generally
-defines such content to be video that is distributed to End Users over
-the Internet free-of-charge. Therefore, if a party offers a service
-which allows users to upload AVC/H.264 video to its website, and such
-AVC Video is delivered to End Users for free, then such video would
-receive coverage under the sublicense for Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video, which is not subject to any royalties for the life of the AVC
-License. This would also apply in the scenario where a user creates a
-free online account in order to receive a customized offering of free
-AVC Video content. In other words, as long as the End User is given
-access to or views AVC Video content at no cost to the End User, then
-no royalties would be payable under our AVC License.</p>
-
-<p>On the other hand, if End Users pay for access to AVC Video for a
-specific period of time (e.g., one month, one year, etc.), then such
-video would constitute Subscription AVC Video. In cases where AVC
-Video is delivered to End Users on a pay-per-view basis, then such
-content would constitute Title-by-Title AVC Video. If a party offers
-Subscription or Title-by-Title AVC Video to End Users, then they would
-be responsible for paying the applicable royalties you noted below.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, in the case where AVC Video is distributed for free
-through an "over-the-air, satellite and/or cable transmission", then
-such content would constitute Free Television AVC Video and would be
-subject to the applicable royalties.</p>
-
-<p>For your reference, I have attached
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-07-07-mpegla.pdf">a
-.pdf copy of the AVC License</a>. You will find the relevant
-sublicense information regarding AVC Video in Sections 2.2 through
-2.5, and the corresponding royalties in Section 3.1.2 through 3.1.4.
-You will also find the definitions of Title-by-Title AVC Video,
-Subscription AVC Video, Free Television AVC Video, and Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video in Section 1 of the License. Please note that the
-electronic copy is provided for informational purposes only and cannot
-be used for execution.</p>
-
-<p>I hope the above information is helpful. If you have additional
-questions or need further assistance with the AVC License, please feel
-free to contact me directly.</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Having a fresh copy of the license text was useful, and knowing
-that the definition of Title-by-Title required payment per title made
-me aware that my earlier understanding of that phrase had been wrong.
-But I still had a few questions:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-<p>I have a small followup question. Would it be possible for me to get
-a license with MPEG LA even if there are no royalties to be paid? The
-reason I ask, is that some video related products have a copyright
-clause limiting their use without a license with MPEG LA. The clauses
-typically look similar to this:
-
-<p><blockquote>
- This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for
- the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer to (a) encode
- video in compliance with the AVC standard ("AVC video") and/or (b)
- decode AVC video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a
- personal and non-commercial activity and/or AVC video that was
- obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No
- license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. additional
- information may be obtained from MPEG LA L.L.C.
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>It is unclear to me if this clause mean that I need to enter into
-an agreement with MPEG LA to use the product in question, even if
-there are no royalties to be paid to MPEG LA. I suspect it will
-differ depending on the jurisdiction, and mine is Norway. What is
-MPEG LAs view on this?</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>According to the answer, MPEG LA believe those using such tools for
-non-personal or commercial use need a license with them:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>With regard to the Notice to Customers, I would like to begin by
-clarifying that the Notice from Section 7.1 of the AVC License
-reads:</p>
-
-<p>THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR
-THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT
-RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC
-STANDARD ("AVC VIDEO") AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED
-BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM
-A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED
-OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE
-OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM</p>
-
-<p>The Notice to Customers is intended to inform End Users of the
-personal usage rights (for example, to watch video content) included
-with the product they purchased, and to encourage any party using the
-product for commercial purposes to contact MPEG LA in order to become
-licensed for such use (for example, when they use an AVC Product to
-deliver Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free Television or Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video to End Users, or to re-Sell a third party's AVC
-Product as their own branded AVC Product).</p>
-
-<p>Therefore, if a party is to be licensed for its use of an AVC
-Product to Sell AVC Video on a Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free
-Television or Internet Broadcast basis, that party would need to
-conclude the AVC License, even in the case where no royalties were
-payable under the License. On the other hand, if that party (either a
-Consumer or business customer) simply uses an AVC Product for their
-own internal purposes and not for the commercial purposes referenced
-above, then such use would be included in the royalty paid for the AVC
-Products by the licensed supplier.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, I note that our AVC License provides worldwide coverage in
-countries that have AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, including
-Norway.</p>
-
-<p>I hope this clarification is helpful. If I may be of any further
-assistance, just let me know.</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The mentioning of Norwegian patents made me a bit confused, so I
-asked for more information:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>But one minor question at the end. If I understand you correctly,
-you state in the quote above that there are patents in the AVC Patent
-Portfolio that are valid in Norway. This make me believe I read the
-list available from &lt;URL:
-<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx">http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx</a>
-&gt; incorrectly, as I believed the "NO" prefix in front of patents
-were Norwegian patents, and the only one I could find under Mitsubishi
-Electric Corporation expired in 2012. Which patents are you referring
-to that are relevant for Norway?</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Again, the quick answer explained how to read the list of patents
-in that list:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>Your understanding is correct that the last AVC Patent Portfolio
-Patent in Norway expired on 21 October 2012. Therefore, where AVC
-Video is both made and Sold in Norway after that date, then no
-royalties would be payable for such AVC Video under the AVC License.
-With that said, our AVC License provides historic coverage for AVC
-Products and AVC Video that may have been manufactured or Sold before
-the last Norwegian AVC patent expired. I would also like to clarify
-that coverage is provided for the country of manufacture and the
-country of Sale that has active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents.</p>
-
-<p>Therefore, if a party offers AVC Products or AVC Video for Sale in
-a country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents (for example,
-Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.), then that party would still need
-coverage under the AVC License even if such products or video are
-initially made in a country without active AVC Patent Portfolio
-Patents (for example, Norway). Similarly, a party would need to
-conclude the AVC License if they make AVC Products or AVC Video in a
-country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, but eventually Sell
-such AVC Products or AVC Video in a country without active AVC Patent
-Portfolio Patents.</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>As far as I understand it, MPEG LA believe anyone using Adobe
-Premiere and other video related software with a H.264 distribution
-license need a license agreement with MPEG LA to use such tools for
-anything non-private or commercial, while it is OK to set up a
-Youtube-like service as long as no-one pays to get access to the
-content. I still have no clear idea how this applies to Norway, where
-none of the patents MPEG LA is licensing are valid. Will the
-copyright terms take precedence or can those terms be ignored because
-the patents are not valid in Norway?</p>
+<p>Note that the MOBI version have problems with the table of content,
+at least with the viewers I have been able to test. And the ePub file
+have several problems according to
+<a href="https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck">epubcheck</a>, but seem
+to display fine in the viewers I have tested. All the files needed to
+create the book in various forms are available from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">the
+github project page</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site
+digi.no. Check out the article
+"<a href="http://www.digi.no/juss_og_samfunn/2015/10/29/vil-apne-politikernes-oyne-for-creative-commons">Vil
+åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons</a>".</li>
+
+<p>I've <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">blogged
+about the project</a> as it moved along. The blogs document the translation
+progress and insights I had along the way.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>New laptop - some more clues and ideas based on feedback</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Several people contacted me after my previous blog post about my
-need for a new laptop, and provided very useful feedback. I wish to
-thank every one of these. Several pointed me to the possibility of
-fixing my X230, and I am already in the process of getting Lenovo to
-do so thanks to the on site, next day support contract covering the
-machine. But the battery is almost useless (I expect to replace it
-with a non-official battery) and I do not expect the machine to live
-for many more years, so it is time to plan its replacement. If I did
-not have a support contract, it was suggested to find replacement parts
-using <a href="http://www.francecrans.com/">FrancEcrans</a>, but it
-might present a language barrier as I do not understand French.</p>
-
-<p>One tip I got was to use the
-<a href="https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb">Skinflint</a> web service to
-compare laptop models. It seem to have more models available than
-prisjakt.no. Another tip I got from someone I know have similar
-keyboard preferences was that the HP EliteBook 840 keyboard is not
-very good, and this matches my experience with earlier EliteBook
-keyboards I tested. Because of this, I will not consider it any further.
-
-<p>When I wrote my blog post, I was not aware of Thinkpad X250, the
-newest Thinkpad X model. The keyboard reintroduces mouse buttons
-(which is missing from the X240), and is working fairly well with
-Debian Sid/Unstable according to
-<a href="http://www.corsac.net/X250/">Corsac.net</a>. The reports I
-got on the keyboard quality are not consistent. Some say the keyboard
-is good, others say it is ok, while others say it is not very good.
-Those with experience from X41 and and X60 agree that the X250
-keyboard is not as good as those trusty old laptops, and suggest I
-keep and fix my X230 instead of upgrading, or get a used X230 to
-replace it. I'm also told that the X250 lack leds for caps lock, disk
-activity and battery status, which is very convenient on my X230. I'm
-also told that the CPU fan is running very often, making it a bit
-noisy. In any case, the X250 do not work out of the box with Debian
-Stable/Jessie, one of my requirements.</p>
-
-<p>I have also gotten a few vendor proposals, one was
-<a href="http://pro-star.com">Pro-Star</a>, another was
-<a href="http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/">Libreboot</a>.
-The latter look very attractive to me.</p>
-
-<p>Again, thank you all for the very useful feedback. It help a lot
-as I keep looking for a replacement.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2015-07-06: I was recommended to check out the
-<a href="">lapstore.de</a> web shop for used laptops. They got several
-different
-<a href="http://www.lapstore.de/f.php/shop/lapstore/f/411/lang/x/kw/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X_Serie/">old
-thinkpad X models</a>, and provide one year warranty.</p>
+ <title>Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Like før kl. 11 i dag leverte jeg fem esker med gaveinnpakkede
+bøker til Stortinget, for utdeling til alle stortingsrepresentanter.
+Det ble etterfulgt av følgende pressemelding. Stor takk til NUUG for
+lån av epostliste for å sende ut pressemeldingen.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p><strong>Er opphavsretten for streng, spør ny bok</strong></p>
+
+<p>I dag kommer boken «<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Fri
+kultur</a>» av Lawrence Lessig ut på norsk. Boken handler om
+utviklingen og utvidelsene opphavsretten har hatt de siste 40 årene.
+Boken er i dag gitt i gave til alle stortingsrepresentantene.
+Oversetter og utgiver Petter Reinholdtsen håper Stortinget vil tenke
+seg om to ganger neste gang det er snakk om utvidelse av
+opphavsretten.</p>
+
+<p>Boken forteller om hvordan store medieaktører ved hjelp av
+opphavsretten bruker teknologi til å begrense kulturen og kontrollere
+kreativiteten. Den er skrevet av stifteren av
+<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>, professor
+Lawrence Lessig, som for tiden er med i kampen om å bli Demokratenes
+<a href="https://lessig2016.us/">presidentkandidat i USA sitt
+presidentvalg i 2016</a>. Lessig ble sist omtalt i norske medier da
+NRK i høst viste dokumentaren «Kampen for et demokratisk internett»
+som også er
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz">tilgjengelig
+fra The Internet Archive</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Boken beskriver hvordan opphavsrettens makt i USA har blitt
+betydelig utvidet etter 1974 langs fem kritiske akser: varighet (fra
+32 til 95 år), omfang (fra utgivere til alle), rekkevidde (gjelder nå
+enhver fremvisning via datamaskin), kontroll (avledede verk er
+definert så bredt at i praksis alle nye åndsverk risikerer søksmål fra
+en opphavsrettsinnehaver) og til sist maktkonsentrasjon og integrering
+av mediebransjen. Den dokumenterer også hvordan medieindustrien har
+lyktes med å bruke rettsvesenet til å begrense konkurranse, og i
+praksis har skaffet seg vetorett over teknologiske nyvinninger.
+Nedlasting av fritt, lovlig og i utgangspunktet gratis materiale
+stoppes med tekniske sperrer og lobbyert lovvern av sperrene.</p>
+
+<p>Utvidelsene illustreres i boken med ulike eksempler. For eksempel
+en demonstrasjon av at Walt Disney ville ha blitt ansett som en
+opphavsrettspirat dersom han gjorde i dag det han gjorde på
+1930-tallet. Boken beskriver hvordan vern av åndsverk er bra, men at
+mer vern ikke nødvendigvis er bedre.<?p>
+
+<p>Petter Reinholdtsen, som sammen med flere frivillige har oversatt
+boken på fritiden de siste 3 årene, håper at boken vil gjøre en
+forskjell. «Når en vet hvordan opphavsrettens varighet i Norge, uten
+opposisjon på Stortinget, ble utvidet nok en gang i mai i fjor, og
+hvordan Norges handelspartner USA gjennom de nye handelsavtalene
+Trans-Pacific Partnership og Transatlantic Trade and Investment
+Partnership
+<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared">ønsker
+å utvide opphavsrettens makt også i andre land</a>, håper jeg at flere
+vil spørre: Er det virkelig fornuftig å gjøre de samme utvidelsene i
+Norge?», spør han. «Jeg håper boken kan bidra til kunnskap og
+forståelse, og kan gi Stortinget et bedre grunnlag til å ta riktige
+beslutninger som ivaretar befolkningens og samfunnets interesser i
+Norge.»</p>
+
+<p>Petter Reinholdtsen er en mangeårig fri programvareutvikler som har
+vært med på å lage systemer som operativsystemet Debian, IT-løsningen
+Skolelinux, borgerportalen FiksGataMi og innsynstjenesten Mimes brønn.
+Han forteller han selv har opplevd problemene utvidet varighet,
+omfang, rekkevidde og kontroll i opphavsretten medfører og at boken
+var en oppvekker. «Jeg håper andre finner boken like interessant som
+jeg gjorde. Boken kan
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">lastes
+gratis ned fra github</a> eller
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html">kjøpes
+på papir fra lulu.com</a>,» avslutter Reinholdtsen.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Så får vi se om det har noen positiv effekt. :)</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
-replacement soon. The left 5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
-started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
-cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
-flickering.</p>
-
-<p>My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
-still as
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">I
-described them in 2013</a>. The last time I bought a laptop, I had
-good help from
-<a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353">prisjakt.no</a>
-where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
-wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually. Three button mouse
-and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
-laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook 820 G1 and
-G2) lack three mouse buttons). It is also unclear to me how good the
-keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are. I hope Lenovo have not messed up
-the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
-deteriorated since X41.</p>
-
-<p>I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
-seem sensible to me? Are there better services around to search the
-set of available laptops for features? Please send me an email if you
-have suggestions.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2015-07-23: I got a suggestion to check out the FSF
-<a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">list
-of endorsed hardware</a>, which is useful background information.</p>
+ <title>"Fri kultur" av @lessig - norsk utgave av "Free Culture" tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html">Klikk her for å kjøpe boken</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I 2004, mens <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative
+Commons-bevegelsen</a> vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence
+Lessig boken
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
+Culture</a> for å forklare problemene med økene åndsverksregulering og
+for å foreslå noen løsninger. Jeg leste boken den gangen, og den både
+inspirerte meg og endret på hvordan jeg så på opphavsrettslovigving.
+Jeg skulle ønske flere folk leste denne boken. Den gir en god
+gjennomgang av hvordan økende åndsverksregulering skader både
+nyskapning og kulturlivet, og skisserer hvordan både lovgivere og oss
+vanlige borgere kan bidra for å få slutt på dette.</p>
+
+<p>Derfor bestemte jeg meg sommeren 2012 for å oversette den til norsk
+bokmål og gjøre den tilgjengelig for de blant mine venner og familie
+som foretrekker å lese bøker på norsk. Jeg oversatte boken ved hjelp
+av docbook og en gettext PO-fil, og endte opp med to utgaver, en på
+norsk og en på engelsk. Den engelske publiserte jeg i forrige uke, og
+den norske utgaven på papir
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html">er
+nå klar for salg</a>. Jeg fikk heldigvis hjelp med oversetting og
+korrekturlesing av den norske utgaven fra en rekke frivillige. Se
+side 245 for en komplett liste. Slik ser omslaget ut:
+
+<p align="center"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html"><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-28-free-culture-norwegian-published-cover.png"/></a></p>
+
+<p>I tillegg til den norske og engelske utgaven holder vi på med en
+fransk utgave. Den koordineres av dblatex-utvikleren Benoît Guillon,
+og oversettelsen var komplett denne uka men må korrekturleses før den
+kan gis ut. Flere frivillige trengs her, så ta kontakt med Benoît
+hvis du vil bidra.</p>
+
+<p>Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">min
+github-prosjektside</a>. Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen
+formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet
+dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
+og
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
+men jeg har ikke tatt meg tid til å undersøke problemene. For de som
+vil ha elektronisk kopi anbefaler jeg å bruke PDF- og ePub-utgaven i
+denne omgang, da de ser ut til å hånderes bra av de fremviserne jeg
+har tilgjengelig.</p>
+
+<p>Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale
+<a href="http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">NUUG Foundation</a> til å
+sponse trykking av boken. Det er årsaken til at stiftelsens logo er
+på baksiden av omslaget. Jeg er svært takknemlig for dette, og bruker
+bidraget til å gi en kopi av den norske utgaven til alle
+Stortingsrepresentanter og andre beslutningstakere her i Norge.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Last oktober I was involved on behalf of
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> with recording the talks at
-<a href="http://www.makercon.no/">MakerCon Nordic</a>, a conference for
-the Maker movement. Since then it has been the plan to publish the
-recordings on <a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, which
-finally happened the last few days. A few talks are missing because
-the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the
-talks are available. The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV
-channel 50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available
-from the Frikanalen web site. The unedited recordings are
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">available on
-Youtube too</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This is the list of talks available at the moment. Visit the
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon">Frikanalen video
-pages</a> to view them.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art
- to robotics (Kyrre Glette)</li>
-
- <li>Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)</li>
-
- <li>Making a one year school course for young makers
- (Olav Helland)</li>
-
- <li>Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of
- Inspiration (Hege Langlo)</li>
-
- <li>Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)</li>
-
- <li>How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)</li>
-
- <li>Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product
- Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)</li>
-
- <li>Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)</li>
-
- <li>Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)</li>
-
- <li>Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)</li>
-
- <li>Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)</li>
-
- <li>Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde
- Sevens)</li>
-
- <li>How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too!
- (Jennifer Turliuk)</li>
-
- <li>Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of
- Connected Exploration (David Lang)</li>
-
- <li>Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens
- Dyvik)</li>
-
- <li>The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had
-to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no
-longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line
-argument changes). In addition, we needed better audio normalization,
-which sent me on a detour to
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html">package
-bs1770gain for Debian</a>. Now this is in place and it became a lot
-easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.</p>
+ <title>"Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">Click
+here to buy the book</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In 2004, as the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
+movement</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
+book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
+Culture</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright
+regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book back then and
+was very moved by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the
+way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
+would read it too.</p>
+
+<p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
+Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
+that prefer to read books in Norwegian. I translated the book using
+docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
+new edition of the English original. I've been in touch with the
+author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
+published an English version. So I decided to do so. Today, I made
+this edition
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
+for sale on Lulu.com</a>, for those interested in a paper book. This
+is the cover:
+
+<p align="center"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html"><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></a></p>
+
+<p>The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
+few days. I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
+months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
+join the translation project. So far there is only one active
+person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
+need some proof reading.</p>
+
+<p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
+github project page</a>. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
+formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
+dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
+and
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
+but I have not taken the time to investigate. I recommend the PDF and
+ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
+have available.</p>
+
+<p>After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
+to secure some sponsoring from
+<a href="http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">the NUUG Foundation</a> to
+print the book. This is the reason their logo is located on the back
+cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
+give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
+Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Hvem fører Medietilsynet tilsyn med?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I en global verden med eierskap på tvers, trengs det informasjon om
-hvem som har kontrollen i selskaper og bedrifter. Og for å få tilgang
-til slik informasjon for alle som ønsker å analysere eierskap, holder
-med ikke med nasjonale databaser over eierskap, det må globale
-samledatabaser med åpne data til. Heldigvis finnes det en
-internasjonal bevegelse for å gjøre selskapsinformasjon for alle land
-offentlig tilgjengelig. En slik database heter
-<a href="http://opencorporates.com">OpenCorporates</a>, der
-informasjonen er gratis tilgjengelig med en "del på samme
-vilkår"-lisens. De samler inn selskapsinformasjon, eierskap,
-konsesjonstildelinger og lignende. De manglet ganske mye for Norge,
-da bruksvilkårene til Norsk offentlig informasjon i stor grad
-blokkerer OpenCorporates fra å samle den inn.</p>
-
-<p>Men jeg er jo involvert i
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, som har
-TV-konsesjon, og tenkte det kunne være fint om informasjon om alle
-mediakonsesjoner var tilgjengelig i OpenCorporates, så jeg sendte
-avgårde følgende spørsmål til Medietilsynet 2015-06-22:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Hei. Finnes det en oversikt over enhetene som Mediatilsynet fører
-tilsyn med som åpne data? Jeg lette etter den på
-&lt;URL:<a href="http://data.norge.no/">http://data.norge.no/</a>&gt; og
-&lt;URL:<a href="http://hotell.difi.no/">http://hotell.difi.no/</a>&gt; uten å
-finne noe der, og fant heller ikke noe under
-&lt;URL:<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/</a>&gt;.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg tenker på alle som har fått kringkastingskonsesjon og alle som
-er omtalt under
-&lt;URL:<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/</a>&gt;.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg skulle gjerne hatt dette maskinlesbart, og inkludert
-organisasjonsnummer og hva slags forhold mediatilsynet har til
-organisasjonene. Tanken er å importere det i
-&lt;URL:<a href="https://opencorporates.com/">https://opencorporates.com/</a>&gt; for analyse, så det bør ikke ha
-bruksbegresninger som gjør dette umulig.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>To dager senere fikk jeg svar, med de datasettene de hadde
-tilgjengelig. Svaret fra Hanne Sekkelsten hos Medietilsynet var
-informativt og imøtekommende.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Vi viser til din e-post av 22. juni, der du ber om å få tilsendt oversikter
-over aktører Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.</p>
-
-<p>Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med kringkastere og audiovisuelle
-bestillingstjenester som omfattes av kringkastingsloven, og med
-eierskap i aviser, fjernsyn radio og elektroniske medier etter
-medieeierskapsloven. I tillegg vil Medietilsynet etter at
-beskyttelsesloven trer i kraft fra 1. juli ha tilsyn med en rekke nye
-aktører. Nærmere informasjon om den nye loven finnes på Medietilsynets
-nettsted, her:
-<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/</a>
-. Vi har ikke utarbeidet oversikter over alle aktørene, men vi sender
-deg her de listene vi har utarbeidet, hentet fra våre databaser. Vi
-har dessverre ikke ferdige rapporter som inneholder
-organisasjonsnummer. Dersom du ønsker flere opplysninger ber vi om at
-du tar kontakt med oss slik at vi kan finne ut av hvilke opplysninger
-du trenger, og hvilke vi kan fremskaffe.</p>
-
-<p>Vedlagt følger:
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Konsesjoner - lokalradio FM pr. 31.12.2014 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjoner_lokalradio_fm_felles_31.12.2014.pdf">PDF (original)</a>]</li>
-
- <li>Konsesjoner - lokalfjernsyn i det digitale bakkenettet for fjernsyn, pr. mars 2015 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.docx">DOCX (original)</a>,
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.pdf">PDF</a>]</li>
-
- <li>Konsesjoner - DAB-radio, status mars 2015 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.xps">XPS (original)</a>,
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.pdf">PDF</a>]</li>
-
- <li>Registreringspliktige kringkastere - status mars 2015: [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.xps">XPS (original)</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.pdf">PDF</a>]
-
- <ul>
- <li>Kabelsendt fjernsyn
- <li>Satellittsendt fjernsyn
- <li>Nett-tv
- <li>Kabelsendt radio
- <li>Satellittsendt radio
- <li>Nett-radio
- </ul></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Vi må ta forbehold om at det kan være enkelte feil i oversiktene
-siden disse ikke er oppdaterte pr. dags dato. Vi vil foreta nye
-oppdateringer i august.</p>
-
-<p>Med hilsen</p>
-
-<p>Hanne Nistad Sekkelsten
-<br>Seniorrådgiver | Senior Legal Adviser
-<br>Medietilsynet | Norwegian Media Authority
-<br>A: Nygata 4, NO-1607 Fredrikstad
-<br>T: [telefonnummer fjernet]
-<br>E: [adresse fjernet] | W: www.medietilsynet.no
-</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Desverre er formatene for ustrukturerte til maskinell behandling og
-mangler endel informasjon, men det er gode oversikter over hvem
-Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med. Filene er på formatene PDF, XPS
-(XML-basert PDF-lignende format fra Microsoft) og DOCX, så det vil
-være en stor jobb å strukturere informasjonen på en måte som kan
-importeres i OpenCorporates. Svaret er ikke i tråd med
-<a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-04-05-959">Forskrift
-om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning</a> som sier epostvedlegg
-skal sendes som PDF, så jeg har gjorde PDF-utgaver av XPS og
-DOCX-utgavene tilgjengelig for å gjøre det enklere for alle å se
-innholdet.</p>
+ <title>EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Bitcoin er i litt vinden i Norge for tiden, med
+<a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/en-digital-robin-hood-1.12604681">kronikk
+om bitcoin-overføringer på tvers av landegrensene</A> hos NRK Ytring
+for to dager siden og
+<a href="https://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID25009815/kapital-bitcoin-en-digital-pengebinge">dokumentar
+om bitcoin</a> på NRK 2 i forgårs og i går. I den sammenhengen er det
+spesielt hyggelig med en gladnyhet fra EU om Bitcoin.</p>
+
+<p>I dag konkluderte EU-domstolen at
+<a href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=170305&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=604079">Bitcoin-kjøp
+fra Bitcoin-børser ikke er MVA-pliktig</a> (sak C‑264/14). Fant
+<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-bitcoin-tax-eu-idUSKCN0SG0X920151022">nyheten
+først hos Reuters</a>, etter tips fra innehaveren av
+<a href="http://www.bitmynt.no/">Bitmynt</a>. EU-domstolens avgjørelse
+er stikk i strid med
+<a href="http://www.skatteetaten.no/no/Radgiver/Rettskilder/Uttalelser/Prinsipputtalelser/Bruk-av-bitcoins--skatte--og-avgiftsmessige-konsekvenser/">annonseringen
+fra Skatteetaten i 2013</a>, der de konkluderte med at bitcoin er et
+«formuesobjekter» som det skulle betales mva på ved kjøp og salg.
+Dermed la Skatteetaten opp til dobbel MVA-betaling hvis en kjøpte noe
+med Bitcoin fra Norge (først mva på kjøp av Bitcoin, deretter mva på
+det en kjøper med Bitcoin). Jeg lurer på om denne avgjørelsen får
+Skatteetaten til å bytte mening. Gleder meg til fortsettelsen.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies
-in Norway. The information is publicly available, but one need to
-recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete
-ownership graph of a given set of companies. To save me the work in
-the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the
-ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format. The data source
-is web scraping from <a href="http://www.proff.no/">Proff</a>, because
-I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of
-the ownership data, <a href="http://www.brreg.no/">Brønnøysundsregistrene</a>.</p>
-
-<p>To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph">the code from git</a> and run it using the organisation number. I'm
-using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its
-ownership structure is very simple:</p>
-
-<pre>
-% time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 > dagbladet.dot
-
-real 0m2.841s
-user 0m0.184s
-sys 0m0.036s
-%
-</pre>
-
-<p>The script accept several organisation numbers on the command line,
-allowing a cluster of companies to be graphed in the same image. The
-resulting dot file for the example above look like this. The edges
-are labeled with the ownership percentage, and the nodes uses the
-organisation number as their name and the name as the label:</p>
-
-<pre>
-digraph ownership {
-rankdir = LR;
-"Aller Holding A/s" -> "910119877" [label="100%"]
-"910119877" -> "998689015" [label="100%"]
-"998689015" -> "958033540" [label="99%"]
-"974530600" -> "958033540" [label="1%"]
-"958033540" [label="AS DAGBLADET"]
-"998689015" [label="Berner Media Holding AS"]
-"974530600" [label="Dagbladets Stiftelse"]
-"910119877" [label="Aller Media AS"]
-}
-</pre>
-
-<p>To view the ownership graph, run "<tt>dotty dagbladet.dot</tt>" or
-convert it to a PNG using "<tt>dot -T png dagbladet.dot >
-dagbladet.png</tt>". The result can be seen below:</p>
-
-<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png" width="80%">
-
-<p>Note that I suspect the "Aller Holding A/S" entry to be incorrect
-data in the official ownership register, as that name is not
-registered in the official company register for Norway. The ownership
-register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking
-of the ownership links.</p>
-
-<p>Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources.
-The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I've been told that
-"<a href="http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/">Aller
-Holding A/S</a>" is a Danish company, which explain why it did not
-have a Norwegian organisation number. I've also been told that there
-is a <a href="http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/">web
-services API available</a> from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those
-willing to accept the terms or pay the price.</p>
+ <title>Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden a year ago</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Last year, <a href="https://lessig2016.us/">US president candidate
+in the Democratic Party</a> Lawrence interviewed Edward Snowden. The
+one hour interview was
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE">published by
+Harvard Law School 2014-10-23 on Youtube</a>, and the meeting took
+place 2014-10-20.</p>
+
+<p>The questions are very good, and there is lots of useful
+information to be learned and very interesting issues to think about
+being raised. Please check it out.</p>
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_Sr96TFQQE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+<p>I find it especially interesting to hear again that Snowden did try
+to bring up his reservations through the official channels without any
+luck. It is in sharp contrast to the answers made 2013-11-06 by the
+Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg to the Norwegian Parliament,
+<a href="https://tale.holderdeord.no/speeches/s131106/68">claiming
+Snowden is no Whistle-Blower</a> because he should have taken up his
+concerns internally and using official channels. It make me sad
+that this is the political leadership we have here in Norway.</p>
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- <title>Measuring and adjusting the loudness of a TV channel using bs1770gain</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Television loudness is the source of frustration for viewers
-everywhere. Some channels are very load, others are less loud, and
-ads tend to shout very high to get the attention of the viewers, and
-the viewers do not like this. This fact is well known to the TV
-channels. See for example the BBC white paper
-"<a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP202.pdf">Terminology
-for loudness and level dBTP, LU, and all that</a>" from 2011 for a
-summary of the problem domain. To better address the need for even
-loadness, the TV channels got together several years ago to agree on a
-new way to measure loudness in digital files as one step in
-standardizing loudness. From this came the ITU-R standard BS.1770,
-"<a href="http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.1770/en">Algorithms to
-measure audio programme loudness and true-peak audio level</a>".</p>
-
-<p>The ITU-R BS.1770 specification describe an algorithm to measure
-loadness in LUFS (Loudness Units, referenced to Full Scale). But
-having a way to measure is not enough. To get the same loudness
-across TV channels, one also need to decide which value to standardize
-on. For European TV channels, this was done in the EBU Recommondaton
-R128, "<a href="https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf">Loudness
-normalisation and permitted maximum level of audio signals</a>", which
-specifies a recommended level of -23 LUFS. In Norway, I have been
-told that NRK, TV2, MTG and SBS have decided among themselves to
-follow the R128 recommondation for playout from 2016-03-01.</p>
-
-<p>There are free software available to measure and adjust the loudness
-level using the LUFS. In Debian, I am aware of a library named
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libebur128">libebur128</a>
-able to measure the loudness and since yesterday morning a new binary
-named <a href="http://bs1770gain.sourceforge.net">bs1770gain</a>
-capable of both measuring and adjusting was uploaded and is waiting
-for NEW processing. I plan to maintain the latter in Debian under the
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-multimedia-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org">Debian
-multimedia</a> umbrella.</p>
-
-<p>The free software based TV channel I am involved in,
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, plan to follow the
-R128 recommondation ourself as soon as we can adjust the software to
-do so, and the bs1770gain tool seem like a good fit for that part of
-the puzzle to measure loudness on new video uploaded to Frikanalen.
-Personally, I plan to use bs1770gain to adjust the loudness of videos
-I upload to Frikanalen on behalf of <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the
-NUUG member organisation</a>. The program seem to be able to measure
-the LUFS value of any media file handled by ffmpeg, but I've only
-successfully adjusted the LUFS value of WAV files. I suspect it
-should be able to adjust it for all the formats handled by ffmpeg.</p>
+ <title>The Story of Aaron Swartz - Let us all weep!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The movie "<a href="http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy">The
+Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz</a>" is both inspiring
+and depressing at the same time. The work of Aaron Swartz has
+inspired me in my work, and I am grateful of all the improvements he
+was able to initiate or complete. I wish I am able to do as much good
+in my life as he did in his. Every minute of this 1:45 long movie is
+inspiring in documenting how much impact a single person can have on
+improving the society and this world. And it is depressing in
+documenting how the law enforcement of USA (and other countries) is
+corrupted to a point where they can push a bright kid to his death for
+downloading too many scientific articles. Aaron is dead. Let us all
+weep.</p>
+
+<p>The movie is also available on
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58">Youtube</a>. I
+wish there were Norwegian subtitles available, so I could show it to
+my parents.</p>
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