[pp.int.general] Dutch Minister thinks about Banning the Home-downloading of Copyrighted Material

[Amelia Andersdotter]

As a political party, what we can do is aim to get positions in
parliament and thereby influence the outcome of any vote. I believe
Christian Engström (Swedish vice chairman) motivates this with a
number of, while successful, still relatively fruitless from various
open source lobby groups, not to speak of civil rights organisations
that have been largely concerned about the onslaught with which we
sacrifice human rights to fight "terrorism" (I use this term probably
as loosely as Andy uses "piracy", will emphasize that I don't support
terrorism, but believe it is not the biggest problem society must
address).

However, as an organisation tieing (sp?) lots of individuals together
we can do letter campaigns. Anyone who has been involved with Amnesty
will know what that is. If we write a letter to the Dutch regime now
and oppose the views they are likely to have had from opposition maybe
the idea will aborted?

--Amelia

On 03/09/07, Andy Milner <andy.milner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that one of the main problems we have at the moment is that
> the lobbying side of things is very one-sided, all the politicians are
> hearing is from side of the "piracy" argument (I use the term piracy
> loosely).  I think we need to be in a position (and it may be a long
> way off) where we can present our side of the argument and try to
> balance things out.
>
>
> //A
>
> On 03/09/07, Natsu <piratenatsu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Once France opened the doors to the ban of downloading copyrighted material,
> > it was only a matter of time that others tried to do so. Very bad news. We
> > really have to get successful at the elections if we want to stop this
> > political trend. Only thing is I don't know how to do so.
> >
> > 2007/9/3, Wybo Wiersma <wybo at logilogi.org>:
> > > Hirsh Ballin, the Dutch Minister of Law thinks about banning the
> > > downloading of copyrighted material according to a well known
> > > columnist from the Netherlands.
> > >
> > > According to him he does this because the Dutch were strongly opposed
> > > against taxes on MP3-players and harddisks during the last election-
> > > time, causing politicians to speak out against those, and Hirsh Ballin
> > > to ban such taxes untill december 2008.
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.nu.nl/news/1217330/1205/Geheim%3A_Hirsch_Ballin_wil_downloaden_verbieden.html
> > > (in Dutch)
> > >
> > > So we have something of an expected problem here on the horizon.
> > >
> > > Wybo Wiersma
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> > Isabel María Guzmán Miranda
> >
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