Alex Galloway vs. Guy Debord

"Galloway’s scholarly pursuits were of less interest to Becker-Ho than was his apparent violation of the Debord estate’s copyright on Le Jeu de la Guerre. (Kriegspiel was made available for free downloading about two months ago, and now has a few hundred registered players. “It’s a smattering of, like, black-wearing English graduate students and sixty-year-old military-reënactment nerds,” Galloway said.) Through a law firm in Paris, Becker-Ho sent cease-and-desist letters both to Galloway and to N.Y.U. at the end of March, requesting that Kriegspiel be taken off-line." (Ben McGrath, The New Yorker) Read more

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[Wu Ming 1]

Situationists and the likes used to rant against intellectual property and argue in favor of potlatch. They ceased and desisted being interesting loooooong ago. Sic transit gloria mundi :-)))) Comrade Galloway, stand up for nobody's rights!