The Swedish Pirate Party got 7.1% of the votes in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections, giving them at least one seat in the European parliament.
Do you agree with them that online file-sharing should be a basic human right (like free speech)?
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palmagma
ANSWERS: 6
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Of course! So that's why they are for.
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What kinda files?
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I'm sorry, I can't answer your question, I'm still trying to get over the amazing fact that pirates got voted into European parliment! That's AWESOME!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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I'll paste in an answer I gave to a similar question asking about voting for the Pirate Party. Publishers are going to have to evolve in some way to remain in business, that's pretty much of a given, but until a viable solution comes along, I think we need to protect their rights of ownership. At this point, if the barriers restricting distribution are stripped away... how will people profit from the production of materials? If no one profits, there is no incentive to produce. Writers and musicians need to make a living. Some would say musicians can make their money on tour, but what's a writer to do.. public readings? I know we'd like to think that artists would produce art for the sake of art itself, but I wonder how many great works and musical groups we'd be deprived of, if there wasn't the promise of possible financial success. So, until we find a solution to the problem, a party that's in favor of even a partial reduction in copyright protections, wouldn't get my vote. Free enterprise doesn't mean FREE.
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No. There are very legitimate societal interests served by allowing artists and writers to profit from the fruits of their labors. The reasons for copyright became clear 500 years ago with the invention of the printing press, and are only made more manifest by the distribution power of the Internet. What drives people that pirate files is not egalitarianism, it's greed. THey simply want something for nothing.
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Modern technology makes it extremely easy to reproduce perfectly some kinds of goods. However, the people who produce those goods should still find some way of living from their work, according to the success of their productions. It looks like a new form of retribution has still to be invented, because many participants seem unsatisfied with the various existing systems, from the artist over the recording industry up to the customers.
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