"When an outfit called Earth Station 5 announced itself [in 2003] as a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service headquartered in the camp [the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank], internet downloaders and journalists paid attention. In the occupied Palestinian territories, says Steve Taylor, a spokesman, Earth Station 5 is safe from the music and film industries' campaign to stop people sharing content for free. When they complain, he told Salon.com, a website, 'we tell them to go f--- off.'"
[Thanks to liberal Dutch laws, Amsterdam plays host to several hacker and other internet conferences every year.]
Sources
The Economist, Dec 18th 2003
