Interesting. What it means is that the Pirate Parties donīt want to change the system.<br><br>Now what it the public policy rationale for allowing anybody to monopolize information which would otherwise be in the public domain? If an idea does not sell now, it will not sell tomorrow and it will certainly not sell in five years time. Consumers will buy from a monopoly only because there is no other alternative.
<br><br>In some countries the Government has already monopolized more than half of the economy for themselves and their friends. The rest will die away too if we donīt stop this cancer from spreading. It might be easy to sit around and have fun with the laptop and think that some big daddy company or State will always pay you enough to feed you. But what if it doesnīt work that way?
<br><br>Going to Russia in the good old days, customs officials used to search your bags for illegal content. These days they are mostly cool while our own people have orders to check CDs at the border. We should be ashamed.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christof Leng</b> <<a href="mailto:cl@piratenpartei.de">cl@piratenpartei.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;">
John Nilsson wrote:<br>> Okay, I think we are approaching another issue here. Personally I agree<br>> with you on this issue. But the Swedish Pirate Party is aiming for a<br>> copyright which includes a five year monopoly on commercial
<br>> distribution. I just assumed that this was the case with all Pirate<br>> Parties.<br>><br>The German Pirate Party also wants to keep a time-limited commercial<br>monopoly. Whether it is 5 years or something else has not been decided.
<br>Personally, I would aim a bit - but not much - higher.<br><br>Christof<br>____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">
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