The Sovereign Creator
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Artist outlines why Ethereum enables the Sovereign Creator with concrete examples: music built on an Atari 1040ST, stadium shows of ~20,000, a 1992 record that later sold a million records, an iPhone app removed by Apple in 2010, a Sony-licensed track whose fee funds defense lawyers, and a one-off NFT collaboration sold immediately. Claim ties property rights, privacy and provable ownership on Ethereum to creators retaining control and bypassing ad-driven middlemen.
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- 0:00Hacker culture and Atari Teenage Riot
- 2:51Crypto anarchist ideas in the 80s
- 6:00Berlin Wall fall and information age
- 7:06Atari Teenage Riot against far-right
- 8:32Computers as instruments and DIY music
- 9:58Delete Yourself: surveillance warning
- 11:47Matrix and underground culture
- 12:48Revolution Action video banned
- 16:34Hacktivism and financial crisis
- 17:15Concerts as cultural disruption
- 19:22iPhone app takedown and Sony ad
- 20:50Sovereignty through creative control
- 22:17Critique of Web 2.0 culture
- 23:40Art: time, speed, quality, price
- 25:27Technology vs human nature
- 26:10Music as pure numbers
- 27:35Illusion of digital metrics
- 29:18Property rights and privacy
- 30:43Undervaluing creativity costs
- 32:08De-globalization and free market
- 33:54NFTs and private property rights
- 34:15Music as mining frequencies
- 35:40Ethereum and sovereign creator
- 37:08Crypto as sovereign asset
- 38:56Cutting middlemen with NFTs
- 39:38Global collaborations in art
- 40:35Sovereign Creator Manifesto
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