[pp.int.general] Hufvudstadsbladet (FI) editorial on the Pirate Movement (in Swedish, readable Google translation available)

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Indeed a nice article about PP, well worth the time to read it through!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Nybergh <thomas at nybergh.net> wrote:

> Hufvudstadsbladet, the highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper
> in Finland (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufvudstadsbladet )
> published a pretty well thought out editorial on the pirate movement
> and Piraattipuolue, the Finnish party.
>
> http://www.hbl.fi/text/ledare/2009/8/31/d31383.php
>
> Those of you who don't read Swedish may be interested in Google's
> almost coherent translation:
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbl.fi%2Ftext%2Fledare%2F2009%2F8%2F31%2Fd31383.php&sl=sv&tl=en
>
> The name of the movement is pointed out as being odd, but the writer (
> http://erkki.wordpress.com ; http://twitter.com/andelins in Swedish)
> does seem to have accepted the the pirate parties' favorite concerns
> as legitimate in the context of the overwhelming growth of technology
> in everybody's daily lives. The Information Society vs. imaginary
> property struggle is also compared to earlier ideologies and previous
> conditions that caused interest for change.
>
> The writer, Jan-Erik Andelin was previously the editor in chief of Ny
> Tid, a Finnish, Swedish-language and left leaning magazine covering
> general interest topics. Imho http://www.nytid.fi is a bookmark worthy
> source of interesting stuff for Swedish readers. No rss, though :(
>
> --
> Thomas Nybergh  |  thomas at nybergh.net
> web: http://www.nybergh.net
> cell: +358400843172
> Also: http://www.piraattinuoret.fi/en
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