<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/21 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:35:10AM -0400, Flamsmark wrote:<br>
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> I don't really want to stretch this analogy too far, and I certainly don't<br>
> think that it's reasonable to compare people who obtain, share and<br>
> distribute media in ways often suggested to violate local laws; with an<br>
> organised group of armed political activists/terrorists who killed many in<br>
> bombings. Nonetheless, wouldn't Piratpartiet already be the Sinn Fein<br>
> (completely legitimate political arm) to the massive group of sometimes<br>
> self-identified pirates (the legally dubious underground organisation)?<br>
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</div>Spoken as a Pirate Party member, that's pure slander.<br>
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Among its many goals, Pirate Party does not want to abolish copyright altogether.<br>
However, it definitely wants to change the current status quo, which is<br>
unacceptable, and hurts both the artists/content producers and consumers.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think that Sinn Fein enjoyed the death and fear that was the result of IRA actions either. However, they shared a belief in a more unified Ireland, much as 'pirates' and Piratpartiet share a belief in more reasonable copyright laws, and execution, as well as a variety of other electronic and surveillance freedom issues. If you think that what I said was slanderous, you may be interpreting more of a normative view than I was trying to espouse.</div>
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