<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Mensaje original ----<br>De: Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <rick@piratpartiet.se><br>Enviado: viernes, 11 de enero, 2008 16:40:18<br>> I'd certainly love to -- I'm euphoric as to the current state of things
in Sweden.<br>><br>> Now on Slashdot and Digg's first pages, too.<br>><br>> <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1334236" target="_blank">http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1334236</a><br><br><a href="http://sigfrid.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/decriminalize-file-sharing/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sigfrid & Co. reasons</span></a> couldn't be more logical: antipiracy measures cannot be implemented without violating the more elemental privacy principles.<br><br>That leads to an idea that has been previously exposed by Rick and others, and which I agree -because, for instance, the Spanish copyright lobbies aren't really so strong (government would drive them out if it was its will, because of so many flaws within their daily operations, which may be legally pursued)-: as happens with the war with terrorism, antipiracy may be a pretext to undermine citizens' privacy.<br><br>It comes from a precedential
attitude, with a <span style="font-style: italic;">weakest leg</span> policy -used broadly in the EU when a project first is passed as a law in a few member States, and later it becomes a general EU directive-:<br><br>- first, they set a precedent by -in this case- diminishing privacy in one issue;<br>- if this precedent consolidates -i.e.: if it receives people's approval-, then they extend the precedent to other issues<br>- if some people complain against the new issues the answer will be hey it's legal, remember the precedent<br>- finally, they would have created a general rule from a single precedent<br><br>So that's why it's so important to stop the precedent becoming a reality. Actually, Rick, I agree about the importance of the rebelliousness of the Sigfrid's men; however, I both don't know if it will change the Reinfeldt's government mood, and if it will cost them their place at the next Swedish election. Anyway are good news, I wish here in
Spain we were able to say the same about Spanish congressman -the only thing we can say is that the main opposition party promises to remove levies (though in exchange of prohibiting filesharing and promoting DRM), a promise which was not fulfilled by other parties after the last general election of 2004 (the no-levies promise; actually ALL Spanish parliamentary parties tried both to prohibite filesharing as bad as promoting DRM)-. Regards<br><br><br> Carlos
Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div><br>
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