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

[Jan Huwald]

Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 13:59:00 schrieb 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.

When looking on past press releases, we've always taked about free speech and 
against censorship (no matte how filesharing-specific the issue was). What we 
really need is a better metaphor _"why"_ (not "that") censoring TPB in 
Denmark is no better than censoring the Dalai Lama in China.


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

For synchronous PR it is too late - the issue is already in the media. And I 
welcome you to work on the German press release.

Regards,
Jan Huwald
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