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Yup, we discussed that a bit. It seems he can't tell the Pirate Party from the Pirate Bay (while still claiming it's important to keep track of). Check the next question:<BR>
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<B>Do you think that the Pirate Party's attempts to battle you guys at the ballot box is a legitimate way to work out these issues?</B> <BR>
Garfield: There's nothing about what the Pirate Bay does or what the Pirate Party does that is legitimate. There's nothing philosophically principled about it. They steal copyright content and accept advertising dollars based on taking other people's work. There's nothing noble about it.<BR>
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I mean, that's the kind of statement we can put on our own election campaign posters (next to the "I hope they don't get any votes at all" quote from Mats Johansson, a member of Swedish Parliament). It seems to me that he's responding with a canned answer about the Pirate Bay, when the question was about us.<BR>
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Rick<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 07:51 +0100, Andy Milner wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Picked it up while lookin for News stories this morning...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>From Dean Garfield (Chief Strategy Officer, MPAA)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Question:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The Pirate Party in Sweden has plans to spread the anticopyright</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">movement all over the world. Does it worry you that that some people</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">see the issue of copyright as an attempt by Hollywood to suppress</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">information and are painting piracy as a crusade?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Garfield:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It is a concern. Part of our challenge is to view the Pirate Party,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and those who support it, as a market competitor. We have to make sure</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that we, as an industry, are as attuned to the marketplace as they</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">are. We have to be steadfast to respond to market wishes. We also</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">shouldn't close our eyes to it, and we will be responsive to it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://news.com.com/Hollywoods+copyright+enforcer/2008-1026_3-6204654.html">http://news.com.com/Hollywoods+copyright+enforcer/2008-1026_3-6204654.html</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on page 2...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">//A</FONT>
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