Of darknets and mash-ups

I gave a talk Monday night at Malmö University in Sweden — the Shift Lecture series, it's called — on darknets and mashup culture. I expected perhaps 10 or 20 people to show up at the library along Malmö's scenic waterfront, but more than 100 turned out.

My talk and slide show explored the shift in media culture, darknets, Hollywood, the entertainment industry's business models, file sharing and even Sweden's Pirate Party (piratepartiet), which garnered 35,000 votes, though no seats, in national elections a week ago. One member of the Pirate Party was in the crowd, and he came up afterward and let me know about the Pirate Party's new U.S. outpost.

Also showed four videos of mash-ups, all of them illegal or infringing. Didn't encounter any pushback from the audience, which seemed inclined to allow this kind of experimentation, at least for noncommercial purposes. Afterward, I did an interview with Swedish Radio.

I also took a bunch of photos, but can't seem to get them off of my camera phone at the moment.