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

[Joonas Mäkinen]

Beautifully stated, Philip. I'll start spreading that argument on changed
society further, if you don't mind.

2009/9/1 Philip Hunt <cabalamat at googlemail.com>

> 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
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Joonas "JoonasD6" Mäkinen
Varapuheenjohtaja, viceordförande
Piraattinuoret - Piratungdom

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
University of Helsinki

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