The Internet as We Know It »

24 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

One can have many opinions about the European Commission’s plans for a Digital Single Market, some of them may “need some more work”, such as the fixation on limiting territorial exclusivity for conte... »

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Suicide Bombs in Brussels — May the Open Society Conquer Fear »

22 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

About a year ago, this writer expressed sympathy for the victims of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and their families. This morning, terror came to Brussels, Netopia’s home base. Bombs in the metro and ... »

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Making the World a Better Place – One Buzzword at a Time »

18 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

What do you get if you cross SXSW with the the Game Developers Conference? Substance misuse! That is, from the hollows of Austin where anything goes, and material substance is unquestioned (all that g... »

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Apple vs FBI – More Democracy, Not More Technology, Is the Answer »

17 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Should Apple yield to FBI:s demands and disable the function that deletes all content on an Iphone after 15 unsuccessful login attempts? If you’re a cybersecurity expert, the answer is no. The more en... »

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What if the next Silicon Valley is not in California? »

9 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Europe has failed to bring any competitive internet companies. If pressed, we think perhaps of Skype or Spotify, but nothing on the scale of Google or Amazon. This is an identity crisis for a continen... »

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Bitcoin Will Save Copyright Online »

2 March 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Former Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge is famous for two things: trying to end copyright and changing all his money into Bitcoin. Both of them can be thought of as a digital rebellion of sorts, but... »

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Silicon Valley Secession »

15 February 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia likes NYU Stern-professor Scott Galloway for his one-liners but loves him for his pathos. Sure liked last year’s talk at the DLD conference in Munich, where Galloway predicted Amazon would buy... »

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Friedman Questions #SocialMedia in the #ArabSpring »

5 February 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Perhaps NY Times star columnist Thomas Friedman reads Netopia, but then again maybe not. In any case, he now joins in doubting the role of social media in the Arab Spring. For Netopia’s readers, it is... »

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Steve Jobs – Netopia at the Movies »

4 February 2016 | Per Strömbäck

Few companies are blessed with consumers that are more like fans. Perhaps some car brands, but for the most part, Apple is a unique beast. Of course the Apple cult is in large part thanks to its messi... »

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Copyright as Privacy, #Privacy as #Copyright »

29 January 2016 | Per Strömbäck

How is privacy connected to copyright? The similarities are stronger than you may think. After years of voices pointing to copyright as a threat to privacy (a favorite theme of pirates and tech compan... »

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