Are we not having a "Twelve Monkeys" moment ? That excellent Terry Gilliam movie was showing how Bruce Willis is being send back to different moments in time to search for the single moment or event that had change the curse of the planet.

Well, in 2011/2012 we have been witnessing a few events that may well show the beginning of something new too: people visibly want free data and content from the internet and they are very unhappy about having their use of the internet being controlled...

Some has to do with the desire of the people to have things available to them for free or at the lowest price possible but also as fast as possible: information is instant and global, and so distribution must be too...But there's also greed and companies running into spaces where money can be made out of loopholes in laws: we had the FBI organizing a gigantic coup on Kim Dotcom's MegaUpload multinational operations (which seems to fold down completely such are the procedural irregularities staining the case).

Politically, things have moved too: you have the Pirate Party in Germany who has claimed no less than 9 % of votes in Berlin (that's 15 seats!) , you have...