[pp.int.general] !! Denmark censors Internet, blocks The Pirate Bay

[Ricardo Cristof Remmert-Fontes]

Carlos Ayala wrote:
> 
> ----- Mensaje original ----
> De: Jan Huwald <jh at sotun.de>
> Enviado: lunes, 4 de febrero, 2008 16:41:44
>> How is it technically done? In Germany we already helped circumventing
> a brainless censor approach and would be
>> keen on aiding again.
> 
> It is true that such measures can be circumvented, like DRM. However, at
> least in Spain, circumventing DRM is a crime -article 270.3 of Spanish
> Penal Code (in Spanish)
> <http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Penal/lo10-1995.l2t13.html#a270>
> (Spanish common law); not just using circumvention tools, but just
> having them-, so we in PIRATA think that circumventing is not a
> long-term solution -also we think that it's a dangerous path to say "web
> blockade? never mind! it can be circumvented" because it would happen
> exactly the same that happens with filesharing (in Spain, as filesharing
> legal status is somehow unclear, some people uses to say "no problem, if
> filesharing is illegalized I'll continue filesharing, as long as I'm not
> going to be catched by justice")-.
> 
> So I think that would be necessary to focus on the fact that we
> shouldn't need to go against laws and preliminary injunctions, but those
> laws and preliminary injunctions should adapt to consuetudinarity -rules
> from society habits- and human rights -including privacy, balance
> between rights, etc-. Regards
> 

I absolutely agree with Carlos: the question isn't wether or not
censorship, DRM or surveillance can be circumvented or not.

The question is, which legal system do we want to have as a framework
for our society. Though, actual approaches of surveillance, DRM and
censorship are anti-democratic.

Therefore, pirate parties should understand themselves as human rights
parties. Therefore we should, as Pirate Bay spokesmen did, tcompare this
to situation to China or Burma: IFPI kicks human rights for business
purposes.

We should try to figure this issue out in the media: it is not about
filesharing, it is about free speech. We should focus on that.

We should think of doing press releases from every national pirate party
on this issue in their own languages at the same time.

"$National_PP comdemns censorship and the attack on free speech in Denmark!"

Something like that.

Regards,
Ricardo Cristof
- PP Germany -