[pp.int.general] Finland's Pirate Party Enters Official Party Register

["Robbie E. C. A. Hontelé"]

Rick,

I get where you're going. These people work like the Mafia.These people 
do their job by lobbying and perhaps even buying-off their plans and 
intentions to politicians. A party against their main cause will most 
probably piss them off(pardon my French here).

He doesn't mind political parties with an agenda that supports it's own 
ideas, as long as these ideas don't interfere with the agenda of the 
Finish IFPI.
We will see these reactions in many cases to come. Where there is 
change, there is hurt. The people employed with IFPI-ish companies and 
their clienst get hurt the most by innovation on the net.

Strange example: If someone puts a stick in front of your feet every 
day, leaves it laying there for five minutes and then starts beating you 
with it for three houres, and then put the stick back in front of your 
feat for another five minutes, just to make an instant-replay of the 
previous - would you not try to take the stick away from him?

These people get hurt, and only think to know one cure - to lock the 
internet. They're not right and we need to show them. Try explaining to 
someone how lightning doesn't originate from the sky, but actually 
starts on earth. You'll have the same issues. People believe what they 
see and mostly refuse to think about what they see for more than five 
seconds.
They want to keep away from the stick, by any means possible. Even if it 
involves destroying democracy. That's easier to destroy than the 
internet. That we all know.

The economic recession is our main enemy here. Once we clear that horde 
we will have less resistance to spread our idea's. Politicians will 
notice that the economy will benefit from our ideas and that the current 
models may support an income for some, but really just slow innovation, 
education and research down. That would hurt the European plans for the 
Life Long Learning(LLL), which has already been proven to work out 
positively for the economies based on it.

We need to put our nose into the storm and ride it out. Calm seas will 
appear when the storm fades. We will rise our skull and bones when this 
occurs. Let us use the time we have now to prepare for this event. Have 
your men clean the cannons and polish the cannonballs. Make an inventory 
of the gunpowder left, feed your parrots and be sure to plug any leaks 
in your ships. In a few months we will sale out and enter the ships of 
the IFPI and it's associates. Send 'm to meet Davy Jones in person for 
as far as I am concerned!

Yours Sincerely,

Robbie Hontelé

Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) schreef:
> 1) Congratulations. I highlighted it on my blog, and we sent a PR as well.
>
> 2) The AFP article was very interesting, particularly the quote from the
> Finnish IFPI director:
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> http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipwp8ekbh9qwu2I_5mBIGQBCNZ9w
>
>   
>> "We are absolutely against the idea that any political party can give
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> their support
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>> to the idea of free use of protected content," said Arto Alaspää, the
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> director of
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>> IFPI Finland (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
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>
> IFPI is absolutely opposed to the fact that a political party is allowed
> to support a particular idea? Does he even understand himself what he
> just said? I'm not sure if a "yes" or "no" answer is scarier.
>
> Rick
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>
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