Beautifully stated, Philip. I'll start spreading that argument on changed society further, if you don't mind.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/1 Philip Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cabalamat@googlemail.com">cabalamat@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2009/8/31 Thomas Nybergh <<a href="mailto:thomas@nybergh.net">thomas@nybergh.net</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> The name of the movement is pointed out as being odd, but the writer (<br>
> <a href="http://erkki.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://erkki.wordpress.com</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/andelins" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/andelins</a> in Swedish)<br>
> does seem to have accepted the the pirate parties' favorite concerns<br>
> as legitimate in the context of the overwhelming growth of technology<br>
> in everybody's daily lives. The Information Society vs. imaginary<br>
> property struggle is also compared to earlier ideologies and previous<br>
> conditions that caused interest for change.<br>
<br>
</div>I think this is a very important point that pirate parties need to get<br>
across in our informational material.<br>
<br>
PP is not just a load of freeloaders who want to download music<br>
without paying for it. Instead:<br>
<br>
1. we're an information socirty, not longer an industrial society;<br>
that is to say, production of information is the main form of economic<br>
activity and wealth production<br>
<br>
2. different forms of societies require different forms of social<br>
organisation. So agriculture caused feudalism; industrialisation<br>
caused capitalism and socialism; and the information society has<br>
caused piratism.<br>
<br>
3. the political leaders of the developed world are still living<br>
mentally in the 20th century, in the industrial society; for example,<br>
many of them have no real understanding of the internet. The pirate<br>
party is living mentally in the 21st century, in the information<br>
society; as a consequence we understasnd better than them how society<br>
should respond to this new technology..<br>
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--<br>
Philip Hunt, <<a href="mailto:cabalamat@googlemail.com">cabalamat@googlemail.com</a>><br>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joonas "JoonasD6" Mäkinen<br>Varapuheenjohtaja, viceordförande<br>Piraattinuoret - Piratungdom<br><br>Department of Mathematics and Statistics<br>Faculty of Science<br>
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