[pp.int.general] The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party

[Philip Hunt]

2009/10/26 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>:
>
> You can clearly, and up-front, disavow any approval of copyright
> infringement ("Don't join the Pirate Party if you just want free TV and
> movies"),

I disagree with that sentiment; if a person does just care about free
downloads, voting PP * supporting us in other ways may well be a
rational decision for them. And I dont' like the negativity of telling
people not to join us. If people sdupport us because the understand
and agree with all our policies, good. But if they support us because
of a few of our policies, that's nothing to be sniffed at.
Realistically, most of the people who vote ofr any political party
don't read and agree with that party's manifesto in full.

But of course, there's much more to what we stand for than that. So
maybe we could say something like:

"The Pirate Party wants non-commercial filesharing to be legal. But
that's not all we stand for! We also support ...etc, etc"

> then present the aspects of PP philosophy that they might care
> about. Most coming from somewhere like TPB will just leave, but you'd
> net some.

Sure. But even for the ones who just leave, we're increasing our name
recognition and mindshare.

-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK