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Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Σχολή Χορού — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:14:04 -0000

Pirate Party in Sweden apart from its name, is about the free expression and speech over the internet and not about Pirated software or other digital media. Just to make things clear.

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AXJ — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:11:23 -0000

Love it. AXJ of the USA and SWEDEN are in conversations to launch a coalition in the USA and around the world in real time. Objective: FREE SPEECH on the Internet. More info at: www.axjus.com

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Neil B ♪ — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:05:21 -0000

A commenter said, true "piracy" means taking i-prop etc. for commercial gain. I suppose that means to sell to others, which is certainly piracy. But it can also mean to take something you'd otherwise have to pay for, so you can get Photoshop etc. for free. That is considered piracy since the creators expect protection of their i-prop to justify the effort put into it, as explained in e.g. the US Constitution. It is "gain" in the sense of saving money you'd otherwise owe someone else, to the extent intellectual property is real at all.

BTW, I really enjoy going to YouTube to watch all kinds of stuff, including music videos both recent (the breaking on "Shake It" really rocks) and older (GJWTHF!) I still don't get, how all that can be just put up there with apparently no strings attached. All those providers really don't mind the free dissemination of all those music vids, etc?

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

techsupport — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:29:25 -0000

What do these election results mean?

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

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cherita — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:46:22 -0000

Me too! Bummer.

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lepeep — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:34:19 -0000

can you put fines through expenses?... he he

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Guy Montag — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:26:48 -0000

More interesting is the fact that they won 19% of the voters in the years between 18-30. And that is a victory. Swedish national elections is coming up 2010, guess what will happen...

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Paulo Araujo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:14:29 -0000

excelent post

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

$292646 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:40:29 -0000

It's not piracy, even if the RIAA calls it that often enough for journalists and bloggers to adopt the term as such. Piracy is theft for profitable gain, which takes place to a far greater degree wherever large manufacturing efforts are devoted to duplicating music and software in places the RIAA can't target as easily as American children.

Find something else to call it.

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Dieter Mueller — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:45:45 -0000

One or two seats won't make a difference in a Parliament of 785 MEPs - so hold your horses. They will be a fringe party with a fringe issue. In the current economic turmoil voters have other problems in mind than copyright laws ...

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

usko — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:44:07 -0000

Here's hoping the success of the sweedish pirate party spreads to other parties across Europe and the world

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Markus Scierski — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:24:08 -0000

Go Pirates!

Re: Pirate Party Is Victorious, Joins European Parliament

Guest — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:21:56 -0000

Aww, man. I thought we were talking about real pirates. :-(