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Rightsholders have asked Google to remove more than 10 billion 'copyright infringing' URLs from its search results. The search engine doesn't celebrate the milestone in any way, but the takedown notices document intriguing shifts in volume over time, as well as shifting takedown interests.

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After 15+ years of blackholing IP addresses and making the Domain Name System tell more lies than Pinocchio, some may wonder whether site-blocking is harming prospects of a future open internet. Confirmation that piracy blocking tests are now being conducted at the internet's core routers isn't a surprise. It's only the internet's spinal column, so what could possibly go wrong?

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Google is facing criticism in Spain and Italy for alleged anti-piracy failures. The latest claim accuses Google of ignoring notices that aim to remove pirate IPTV providers from search results. So here's the thing: why would a company take down 10 billion URLs from search but suddenly start acting differently? The public labeling of Google as "grossly negligent" deserves context too; two weeks ago, Google's diligence prevented one of its accusers from deindexing its own website.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Privacy: Our analog parents had the right to meet whomever they liked, wherever they liked, and discuss whatever they liked, without the government knowing. Our digital children have lost this, just because they use more modern items.

For a lot of our digital children’s activities, there’s no such thing as privacy anymore, as they naturally take place on the net. For people born 1980 and later, it doesn’t make sense to talk of “offline” or “online” activities. What older people see as “people spending time with their phone or computer”, younger see as socializing using their phone or computer.

This is an important distinction that the older generation tends to not understand.

Perhaps this is best illustrated with an anecdote from the previous generation again: The parents of our parents complained that our parents were talking with the phone, and not to another person using the phone. What our parents saw as socializing (using an old analog landline phone), their parents in turn saw as obsession with a device. There’s nothing new under the sun.

(Note: when I say “digital children” here, I am not referring to children as in young people below majority age; I am referring to the next generation of fully capable adult professionals.)

This digital socializing, however, can be limited, it can be… permissioned. As in, requiring somebody’s permission to socialize in the way you and your friends want, or even to socialize at all. The network effects are strong and create centralizing pressure toward a few platforms where everybody hang out, and as these are private services, they get to set any terms and conditions they like for people assembling and socializing – for the billions of people assembling and socializing there.

Just as one example to illustrate this: Facebook is using American values for socializing, not universal values. Being super-against anything even slightly naked while being comparatively accepting of hate speech is not something inherently global; it is strictly American. If Facebook had been developed in France or Germany instead of the US, any and all nudity would be welcomed as art and free-body culture (Freikörperkultur) and a completely legitimate way of socializing, but the slightest genocide questioning would lead to an insta-kickban and reporting to authorities for criminal prosecution.

Therefore, just using the dominant Facebook as an example, any non-American way of socializing is effectively banned worldwide, and it’s likely that people developing and working with Facebook aren’t even aware of this. But the Freedom of Assembly hasn’t just been limited in the online sphere, but also in the classic analog offline world where our analog parents used to hang out (and still do).

Since people’s locations are tracked, as we saw in the previous post, it is possible to match locations between individuals and figure out who was talking to whom, as well as when and where this happened, even if they were only talking face to face. As I’m looking out my window from the office writing this piece, it just so happens that I’m looking at the old Stasi headquarters across from Alexanderplatz in former East Berlin. It was a little bit like Hotel California; people who checked in there tended to never leave. Stasi also tracked who was talking to whom, but required a ton of people to perform this task manually, just in order to walk behind other people and photograph whom they were talking to — and therefore, there was an economic limit to how many people could be tracked like this at any one time before the national economy couldn’t sustain more surveillance. Today, that limit is completely gone, and everybody is tracked all the time.

Do you really have Freedom of Assembly, when the fact that you’ve associated with a person — indeed, maybe just spent time in their physical proximity — can be held against you?

I’m going to illustrate this with an example. In a major leak recently, it doesn’t matter which one, a distant colleague of mine happened to celebrate a big event with a huge party in near physical proximity to where the documents were being copied at the same time, completely unaware and by sheer coincidence. Months later, this colleague was part of journalistically vetting those leaked documents and verifying their veracity, while at this time still unaware of the source and that they had held a big party very close to the origin of the documents.

The government was very aware of the physical proximity of the leak combined with this person’s journalistic access to the documents, though, and issued not one but two arrest-on-sight warrants for this distant colleague based on that coincidence. They are now living in exile outside of Sweden, and don’t expect to be able to return home anytime soon.

Privacy, including Privacy of Location, remains your own responsibility.

Privacy: Our analog parents had the ability to read news anonymously, however they wanted, wherever they wanted, and whenever they wanted. For our digital children, a government agent might as well be looking over their shoulder: the government knows what news sources they read, what articles, for how long, and in what order.

For our analog parents, reading the news was an affair the government had no part of, or indeed had any business being part of. Our analog parents bought a morning newspaper with a few coins on the street corner, brought it somewhere quiet where they had a few minutes to spare, and started reading without anybody interfering.

When our digital children read the news, the government doesn’t just know what news source they choose to read, but also what specific articles they read from that news source, in what order, and for how long. So do several commercial actors. There are at least three grave issues with this.

The first is that since the government has this data, it will attempt to use this data. More specifically, it will attempt to use the data against the individual concerned, possibly in some sort of pre-crime scheme. We know this that since all data collected by a government will eventually be used against the people concerned, with mathematical certainty.

In an attention economy, data about what we pay attention to, how much, and for how long, are absolutely crucial predictive behaviors. And in the hands of a government which makes the crucial mistake of using it to predict pre-crime, the results can be disastrous for the individual and plain wrong for the government.

Of course, the instant the government uses this data in any way imaginable, positive or negative, it will become Heisenberg Metrics — the act of using the data will shape the data itself. For example, if somebody in government decides that reading about frugality probably is an indicator of poverty, and so makes people more eligible for government handouts, then such a policy will immediately shape people’s behavior to read more about frugality. Heisenberg Metrics is when a metric can’t be measured without making it invalid in the process.

(The phenomenon is named after the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which is traditionally confused with the Observer Effect, which states you can’t measure some things without changing them in the process. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is actually something else entirely; it states that you can’t measure precise momentum and position of a subatomic particle at the same time, and does not apply at all to Heisenberg Metrics.)

The second issue is that not only government, but also other commercial actors, will seek to act on these metrics, Heisenberg Metrics as they may be. Maybe somebody thinks that reading fanzines about motorcycle acrobatics should have an effect on your health and traffic insurance premiums?

The third issue is subtle and devious, but far more grave: the government doesn’t just know what articles you read and in what order, but as a corollary to that, knows what the last article you read was, and what you did right after reading it. In other words, it knows very precisely what piece of information leads you to stop reading and instead take a specific action. This is far more dangerous information than being aware of your general information feed patterns and preferences.

Being able to predict somebody’s actions with a high degree of certainty is a far more dangerous ability than being vaguely aware of somebody’s entertainment preferences.

Our analog parents had the privacy right of choosing their information source anonymously with nobody permitted (or able) to say what articles they read, in what order, or for what reason. It’s not unreasonable that our digital children should have the same privacy right, the analog equivalent privacy right.

Privacy remains your own responsibility.

National as well as international we ship all our packages with DHL. For all national shippings we now can use the GoGreen option from DHL. For a little additional charge apiece (wich kunstform BMX Shop & Mailorder is paying!) DHL will send the package as low emission as possible. We really want to support that especially DHL will use that extra money to support climate friendly projects. Of course we or DHL will not save the planet with that but it´s a beginning. By the way, for you as a customer that costs no extra money and also it doesn`t slow down the transit time. More about the whole project here.

Robin Kachfi went for a bmx session with his homies on the streets, to test his brand new Actioncam. Check their adventure right here!


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We got the new Subrosa 2018 Softgoods now in stock, like for example the Subrosa Bikes "Battle Cat" Jacket, which is a light jacket which keeps you warm on fresh sunny evenings. As well it's water-resistant. The Subrosa Bikes "Battle Cat" Jacket - Black has two open side pockets which provide space for keys and wallet.

Also now in stock, the Subrosa Bikes "Shield" Beanie, which keeps your head and your ears warm on cold days. The Subrosa Bikes "Shield" Beanie has a embroidered Subrosa Patch.

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We got the new Cult Crew Softgoods now in stock, like for example the Cult "Logo" Anorak Jacket, which is a lightweight thin lined hooded jacket made of nylon which spent you some additionally heat in colder days but also provides you with protection against wind and rain. The Cult "Logo" Anorak Jacket can be fold very compact and requires very little space in your backpack.

Also now in stock, the Cult "Witness" Beanie, which keeps your head and ears nicely warm. With that nice embroidered logo the Cult "Witness" Beanie even does looks super stylisch.

Check our online-shop for more new Cult products!



Have fun!



All the best,

Your kunstform BMX Shop Team

After a three-part vlog about his trip to Barcelona, our Bro Robin Kachfi recently uploaded another clip. As the name of the edit suggests, in GoPro BMX Street Riding Barcelona you will find riding from 1st person perspective (POV) in Barcelona's streets and skate parks. Robin thinks that there are too many Barspins in there. We say, stuff looks great, especially from the POV perspective! What do you think?

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Video: Robin Kachfi

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We got the new Subrosa Bikes 2020 Softgoods in stock. Fresh new colors and new designs!

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Yeah, we got a delivery from wethepeople softgoods.

Our bro Felix Prangenberg filmed this 7 minute long banger part with his teammate Jordan Godwin last summer. You are only one click away from witnessing this madness, check it!

Have fun with the video, your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

Video: Felix Prangenberg

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We got the new Odyssey 2021 Softgoods in stock. Fresh new colors and new designs!

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We got the new Federal Bikes 2021 softgoods in stock. Fresh new colors and new designs!

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If you follow the Cinema team riders like Chad Kerley, Garrett Reynolds or Nathan William on Instagram, you may have already seen one or the other BMX part from Cinema in gold. With the new delivery of Cinema BMX that reached us recently, the new "Colorway" is finally available in our shop.

Yes, 2022 is here and we wish you a happy new year. The year starts well, because we have a few deliveries like the new Kink 2022 BMX bikes, the new Dan Lacey Slip On from Vans and the golden BMX parts from Cinema.

We still have a solid stock of the popular Dickies Icon Logo collection, so we can now offer these to you at a super special price. So grab it while stocks last.

Mongoose and Vans are two iconic brands that have been instrumental in promoting the Southern California's BMX and skate culture, and both brands have now teamed up with the designer "Our Legends" to create a colorful collection of special-edition shoes and apparel. "Be quick", because this collection is now available in our shop for a limited time and in small quantities.

The popular Mongoose "Legion L16", "Legion L18" and other models of the Mongoose BMX-bikes are back in our stock and since we bought a larger amount of them, we can currently offer them to you with a very good price! "Hit while stocks last!" is definitely the motto....

Etnies launches their latest collaboration with exceptional talent Jordan Godwin. This time it's slip-ons, which have a minimalist atmosphere. The shoes were designed by Jordan Godwin in a beautiful orange, very clean. Combined with Etnie's reinforced upper materials, high-performance insoles and the GeoHex profile on the sole, the "Lo-Cut Slip" shoes are super solid for BMX riding and also look fresh. In Jordan's words: "I chose a bold orange combined with classic black for a really eye-catching look. I'm really grateful to Etnies for the chance to contribute my own opinion - from the handmade prints Until the final scan, I am thrilled with the result in every way. Thank you for the love and support, forever grateful..." Now available!

LEGO has published a video on Facebook and Instagram featuring the Endurance, an Icons rendition of Sir Ernest Shackleton's famed ship that contains 3011 pieces.

The video does not provide information about price or availability, but suffice to say, we will probably learn more later today!

Update: Just minutes later, the press release has been published!

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