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philipy philipy
 
M$1 June 09, 2009 02:23 AM

What do you think of the Pirate Party, its aims, and its chances of success?

The Pirate Party (connected with Pirate Bay) just won a seat in the European parliament. Their vision is:

"All non-commercial copying and use should be completely free. File sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized. Culture and knowledge are good things, that increase in value the more they are shared. The Internet could become the greatest public library ever created. The monopoly for the copyright holder to exploit an aesthetic work commercially should be limited to five years after publication."

What do you think of the Pirate Party and its goals?

What effect will it have? Does it have any chance of success?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8089102.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/06/a_swing_to_the_pirates.html
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tracebooks tracebooks
 
 June 09, 2009 02:32 AM
I've been aware of the Pirate Party for a couple of weeks now, and reading about the whole situation for months.

It's an interesting goal. But I'm not sure that creating a vast virtual public library is feasible.

In real, physical libraries, books are purchased from publishing companies, or from jobbers, but ultimately from the publishing companies, who in turn pay the author, the editor and all the employees responsible for helping in the publication of the book. Hopefully the author can then pay the mortgage.

So if everything is free, how does the author get paid? Or the music writer/performer? If there is to be no pay, with the author still write anything other than a private journal?

The whole problem is something the courts have been thinking over for a decade or more, with no solution in sight.
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June 09, 2009 03:20 AM
I agree with the Party in some ways. I believe that software firms should free their software for the general public. They can have their money from the business institutions. And as for films and music etc. I think it would be best to lessen the prices.

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June 09, 2009 11:25 AM
well it should go good ask who your inviting and see if they like pirates. If they do, do the pirate party and if not find a different theem.

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June 09, 2009 12:44 PM
I think there needs to be a more clear outline of the pirate's mission for there to be any success. I'm sitting on the fence with this. I agree with @tracebooks whole heartedly.
In all the reading I've done on this subject, I haven't seen a more specific outline other than what cnet and other stories on it have stated.

"The Pirate Party is focused on three main goals: "to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected."

I bet all the Patent Lawyers are having a field day with this one!
I must confess that I have used pirate bay a few times, but I think that if this party where to have their ideals met, it would also change the face of how we create... everything! There would have to be some sort of middle ground. The reality is that there are too many people that make a living protecting other people's stuff, and I don't think they'll go down without a big fight!

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