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Miriam Clinton

Miriam Clinton (nee Rainsford) is a composer, graphic and interactive artist, often working under the pseudonym “iriXx”, whose writing has appeared in O'Reilly's OpenP2P.com, Linux User and MusicAlly magazines. She is active with the UK Campaign for Digital Rights and is involved in bringing the internationalisation of the Creative Commons project to Europe. Her website Copyleftmedia exists as an umbrella project for the unification of all who would seek freer distribution of their works under alternative licensing systems.

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The Internet Library: rip, mix or burn?

The powerful distribution mechanisms of the networked world, particularly peer-to-peer file sharing, present a unique challenge to the rule of law. But at present no one will meet that challenge. While filesharers will not compromise on ultimate freedom, corporations cannot see past the bottom line. The result is bad news for posterity, writes Miriam Clinton

P2P: revolution or evolution?

The language of anarchy used by Siva Vaidhyanathan to describe peer-to-peer networks cannot capture the nature of the change they represent – no less than the birth of a new epoch of culture.

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