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Swedish newspaper article about LCP 2003
2022-10-11
20:16
Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1661
Swedish newspaper article about LCP 2003
Hi! Just stumbled upon an old newspaper article in Swedish about LCP 2003, in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. I had forgotten about it. Maybe it is interesting to someone:
https://www.svd.se/a/8521f6d2-f2c1-3411-9560-0fab4516650a/dator..
DATORPARTY FOR NOSTALGIKER
I helgen hålls Little Computer Party för folk som vägrar uppdatera. Commodore sålde runt 15 miljoner enheter av sin C64 mellan åren 1982 och 1992. För datornördar är den utdaterade datorterminalen vad Beatles är för popfans. Kopieringsskydden på C64:ans program och spel var enkla att knäcka. Möjligheten att kopiera och sprida dem vidare till sina vänner skapade en armé av hemvävda datorpulare.
- Tillgången till fri programvara har faktiskt varit en förutsättning för den utveckling vi sett inom data och IT under dom senaste tjugo åren. Den här aspekten av piratkopiering kommer sällan fram i debatten, säger C64-fantasten Mats Andrén.
Han jämför den fritagna programvaran med böcker som man kan låna på biblioteket.
- Där ses tillgången på upphovsrättsskyddat material som en demokratisk rättighet.
Andrén ordnar i helgen den sjätte upplagan av Little Computer People (LCP) i Linköping. Ett gammalt hederligt copyparty för dem som var med när det begav sig. Den åldrande C64-scenen hackar sina gamla datorer, lyssnar på C64-producerad musik och tittar på varandras demos.
- På slutet visas de alster som folk skapat under partyt på en storbildsskärm. Då är stämningen som mest intensiv, säger Andrén som hävdar att det inte handlar om något retrofenomen.
- Många trodde det när vi startade 1998. Men som tur var fanns det fortfarande kvar en kärna av människor som kände till sextifyrans sanna värden. Det var för dem LCP skapades för i första hand. Som ny frisk jord att åter börja gro i.
fotnot: Little computer partys hemsida: www.lcp.c64.org
2022-10-11
22:52
hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4808
Yup. Here is how it looked like in the physical newspaper (I found and posted about this article somewhere in 2016 - I have a whole collection of scene related stuff in the common press), published 2003-07-26:
Quick and dirty unedited Google translated version:
COMPUTER PARTY FOR NOSTALGISTS
This weekend the Little Computer Party is held for people who refuse to update. Commodore sold around 15 million units of its C64 between the years 1982 and 1992. To computer geeks, the outdated computer terminal is what the Beatles are to pop fans. The copy protections on the C64's programs and games were easy to crack. The ability to copy and pass them on to friends created an army of homegrown computer geeks.
- Access to free software has actually been a prerequisite for the development we have seen in computers and IT over the past twenty years. This aspect of piracy rarely comes up in the debate, says C64 fan Mats Andrén.
He compares the exempt software to books you can borrow from the library.
- There, access to copyright-protected material is seen as a democratic right.
Andrén is organizing the sixth edition of Little Computer People (LCP) in Linköping this weekend. An old honest copy party for those who were there when it started. The aging C64 scene hacks their old computers [sic!], listens to C64-produced music and watches each other's demos.
- At the end, the creations that people created during the party are shown on a large screen. That's when the atmosphere is most intense, says Andrén, who claims that it's not a retro phenomenon.
- Many thought so when we started in 1998. But fortunately there was still a core of people who knew the true values of the sixty-four. It was for them that the LCP was created in the first place. Like new, healthy soil to start growing in again.
footnote: Little computer party website: www.lcp.c64.org
2022-10-11
23:27
Ziaxx
Registered: Oct 2020
Posts: 19
Nice find. And here below is the CSDb entry for said event.
LCP 2003
2022-10-12
19:48
Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1661
Thanks for the scan. Nice!
For the record: i didn't actually go as far as to claim that pirated software is a democratic right, although the journalist wrote it in a way that sort of implies that. I just pointed to the fact that ppl think very differently about access to different types of information, as a thought experiment. Anyway, then again, maybe I would rather be remembered for claiming that piracy is a democratic right than the opposite. More fun, and more ELITE that way. :D
2022-10-13
12:56
Slator
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 277
frantic, that was an awesome party :)
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