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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.86,0:00:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Text: Gurb in Spain, 1002 km to Brussels
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.23,0:00:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The NSA scandal almost makes us laugh
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.73,0:00:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started Guifi.net
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.15,0:00:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we can provide ourselves with Internet connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.31,0:00:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in the middle of the Catalan nowhere a digital revolution started 10 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.18,0:00:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ramon and his neighbors have built their own broadband network,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.60,0:00:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the big commercial providers had no interest in connecting villages and their vicinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.78,0:00:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, Guifi.net is one of the greatest alternative networks worldwide.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.05,0:00:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to show you where the cables merge together:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.77,0:00:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.37,0:00:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This rack is the equivalent of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.77,0:00:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a telephone switchboard in a village.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.28,0:00:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a bit dirty because this is actually my garden shed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.90,0:00:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it can do is impressing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.90,0:01:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't say it precisely now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.48,0:01:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these are the routers of some 5000 households.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.42,0:01:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a free wireless network,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.71,0:01:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the participants are connecting among each other and not via Internet providers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.06,0:01:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can directly share data with each other, chat, write e-mails
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.75,0:01:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- a decentralized network that the users control themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.12,0:01:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thereby their data is secured from access by strangers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.35,0:01:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, the "Internet guerillas" are even able to roll out their own fiberlines.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.50,0:01:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, Ramon's colleagues are working since 3 AM.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.88,0:01:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all know that the government operates slowly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.31,0:01:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't wait until laws solve everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.53,0:01:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any case this is also comfortable for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.53,0:01:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With regards to communication, we can do or not do whatever we like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.04,0:01:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The builders of Guifi are financing their network themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.100,0:01:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The users, like here the hospital of Vic, are buying once the connections to the fiberline,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.83,0:02:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after that, they can use the infrastructure free of charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.27,0:02:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far there was no provider available, that was able to deliver broadband network access,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.67,0:02:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like we need it in the three hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.31,0:02:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the advantage of Guifi.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.14,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also the services they provide.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is also cheaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.83,0:02:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true, this is quite important.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.26,0:02:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even more important, Ramon and the Catalan free network people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.36,0:02:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are protected in their Internet against the surveillance of NSA & Co.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.38,0:02:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Text: Catalan free network meeting [guifilab]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.72,0:02:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on EU-level, free networks like this are no subject of interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.70,0:02:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There they missed the connection a long time ago:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.57,0:02:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the laws are from the 90s,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.06,0:02:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And aand the planned reform of data protection laws does not take off.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.38,0:02:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway we have to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.72,0:02:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tie the European laws and the interests of citizens together.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.33,0:02:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This makes our structures more robust
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.70,0:03:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thus strengthening our freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.31,0:03:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least the European parliament is pressing to finally pass the reform of data protection laws.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.29,0:03:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They should unify the laws in EU. But a merely technical reform is not enough for Ramon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.28,0:03:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Important is not the laws,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.57,0:03:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important is the spirit behind those laws and that here people works together and most important:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.77,0:03:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to act against the big economic interests.