I agree - and that is why IFPI Board Member Paul Birch has a point when he says that criticism of RIAA is "inappropriate" for a Government funded institution (see newsfeed on the PP Intl website). Accepting gifts from strangers is not always wise, there may be strings attached which you see only later. Rgds Jouni
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jan Huwald</b> <<a href="mailto:jh@sotun.de">jh@sotun.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
With this "turn-around" Lessig came closer to what we pirates fight for. The<br>understanding of transparency of the German Pirate Party is intended to<br>repair the mentioned parts of the broken democratic system. A fraction of
<br>ours is keen on increasing the level of democratic participation (e.g. with<br>more direct election elements). I ask you (all) to track Lessigs thoughts, if<br>they comply with our movement, or if he suggests new ideas or ways of
<br>thinking. In the political field he is playing now this won't be easy.<br><br>Regards,<br>Jan<br><br><br>Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 17:06:44 schrieb Valentin Villenave:<br>> Hello everybody,<br>><br>> in case you haven't seen it yet, I invite all of you to read the last
<br>> note on Lawrence Lessig's blog (he's the Creative Commons founder and<br>> CEO).<br>><br>> His main thesis, if I understand correctly, is: there is no point in<br>> trying to promote opensource, as long as governments are filled with
<br>> corruption. So he seems to have decided to keep fighting, but on a<br>> political level from now on.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml">http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml
</a><br>><br>> I guess we share (more or less) the same ideas; how about sending him,<br>> in the name of all the PPs, a short support message? And maybe, if we<br>> get an answer, see if we can make a public statement on that?
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