The Problem With Piracy Is Ignorance – Or Artists: Stop Whining And Tell The People How You Make Money

What has pissed me off royally lately is the amount of ignorance and “knowledge” in every damn discussion about piracy lately – and on both sides of the fence. I have made my living mostly from copyright fees and in TV and media for about a decade. In spite of that I’ve been very very critical about the current copyright systems, the mostly inefficient fight against piracy with block lists and ruining school kids’ lives with multimillion euro fines, and generally how outfits like MPAA, RIAA and their local counterparts function. Internet has been a game changer and the media industry dropped the ball in a pretty epic way.

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Leap Into The Unknown – Farewell to Moon Nazis

January 9, 2012 · Posted in Making Movies, Work · 2 Comments 

As I start writing this, I’ve been unemployed for about eight hours. Yesterday was my last proper work day in Iron Sky. That job was quite an awesome adventure and worth a short retrospective.

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In Cannes With The Moon Nazis, pt. II

May 22, 2011 · Posted in Making Movies, Work · 2 Comments 

It was again the time for the Iron Sky team to pack their stuff and head out for the Cannes Film Festival. For me it was the second time, but some of the people in the productions have gone to the festival for more than a decade.

This time we had some big news to publish, and managed to make a nice amount of noise.

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