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

[Philip Hunt]

2009/8/31 Thomas Nybergh <thomas at nybergh.net>:
> 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.

I think this is a very important point that pirate parties need to get
across in our informational material.

PP is not just a load of freeloaders who want to download music
without paying for it. Instead:

1. we're an information socirty, not longer an industrial society;
that is to say, production of information is the main form of economic
activity and wealth production

2. different forms of societies require different forms of social
organisation. So agriculture caused feudalism; industrialisation
caused capitalism and socialism; and the information society has
caused piratism.

3. the political leaders of the developed world are still living
mentally in the 20th century, in the industrial society; for example,
many of them have no real understanding of the internet. The pirate
party is living mentally in the 21st century, in the information
society; as a consequence we understasnd better than them how society
should respond to this new technology..

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