Just for the record, are talking about the same PPRU who attended at the Viena conference ?<div>The same Russians who had the idea of getting pirates on top of a icebreaker ?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:29 PM, <a href="mailto:ChooJoy@pirate-party.ru">ChooJoy@pirate-party.ru</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:choojoy@pirate-party.ru">choojoy@pirate-party.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello.<br>
My name is Stanislav Shakirov, leader of PPRU, and Fedor's first letter contains serious accusations against me. I have to respond both on the topics touched and on the personal history of the conflict.<br>
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First, the positions: The PPRU's as well as my personal views regarding media contents and its use coincide with Public Domain Manifesto, including calls for terms of copyright protection to be shortened and restrictions for non-commercial use to be removed. It also states that the interests of authors have to be balanced against the interest of society, which isn't as radical as some Pirates would like it to be but can with no stretch of the imagination be labelled an "unpirately" opinion.<br>
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And now some personal history on Fedor and his role in the PPRU: he was an active member of our forum several months ago, and his views on several copyright topics didn't coincide with the majority's opinion. As he realized that his ideas wouldn't be incorporated into the PPRU's position, he called the rest of us "traitors to the Pirate idea", disregarding my argument that from his perspective many Pirate Parties have to be labelled "traitors", for the notion of a balance of interests between society and authors (one of the main ideas he was opposed to) is present in many pirate documents.<br>
After that he put quite some energy into sabotaging the consolidation of the Russian pirate movement and became an advocate of an absolutely unorganized Pirate Party without unified goals so that his views would be granted an equally official status as those expressed by the majority in the movement. He also declined an invitation to join the Party's temporary council and founding committee, as this would require deanonimization. Subsequently he started spreading accusations against the newly formed party an me personally, first on Russian website (where they didn't earn much reaction as everybody could check out the positions he was referring to for themselves) and now here at the PPI's ML, where he abuses the fact that most subscribers don't speak Russian (at that point I would like to thank Gregory Engels for providing a correct translation of the document Fedor has been falsely referring to).<br>
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I suppose that (as has been the case many times on the PPRU forum) we'll be witnessing quite a lot of flame from Fedor on this ML, but I have neither the time nor the will to enter into discussion with him for the umteenth time, as it will be fruitless anyway and we currently have on our hands a crisis in connection with the shutting-down of Russia's largest torrent tracker, so I have work to do. The Russian-speaking members are welcome to visit our website and forum. Regarding the PPRU's positions, I'm available for any kind of direct questions which do not come from Fedor, or you may ask our European Press Secretary Boris Turovskiy (<a href="mailto:tourovski@gmail.com" target="_blank">tourovski@gmail.com</a>) who's also a member of the German Pirate Party and reads this ML.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Stanislav Shakirov,<br>
Leader - PPRU<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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