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These are problems we are always going to face because we believe everybody <br>deserves the same fair chance in life, no matter what environment he simply can <br>not choose to be born into, and only taking notice of what effort of those available <br>to him he chooses to try to make things better for all.<br><br>In a certain sense, Anonymous presents a framework where anybody, no matter <br>what his skill level be, can contribute in a simple way he can understand towards <br>changing things. Breaking unjust laws should not be a crime, just like leaking info <br>on crimes (Bradley Manning) should not be a crime.<br><br>Every day we can see how powerful, almost certainly guilty people, evade the <br>action of justice through legal tricks and tailored legislation... making formal <br>justice into the universal laughing stock it often is... this certainly has an effect <br>on those that have the aim to fight injustice, pushing some into retaliation <br>tactics and "catch me if you can" strategies. The intentional download of <br>copyright-protected works can be seen as such a retaliation strategy... easy to <br>perpetrate, costly to root out legally... thus we bleed the enemies resources, <br>and it seems they get annoyed... so it works. Contributing to DDoS strikes follows <br>the same pattern.<br><br>It might not be the right thing to do from an absolute ethical point of view, but <br>it is an effective action within the reach of many who do not know/have no <br>access to other alternatives within their reach to contribute towards the overall <br>effort of giving our opponents as hard a time as we can while we find the <br>ultimate effective and perfectly clean strategy to break their defense lines.<br><br>Would you refuse to be saved by a pirate after a wreckage just because with his <br>wooden leg, long sword and black patch over his eye he is not the kind of guy you <br>would give a hand if you crossed him under less pressing circumstances?<br><br>Pirates and Anonymous are temporary loose allies, at least because they both <br>have more urgent things to do than critisizing eachothers actions and motives.<br>Some of the things they do serve us well, some of the things we do serve them <br>well, and together, even when not mixed, we have a greater impact than each <br>on our own.<br><br>Of course, Anonymous makes mistakes which have effects, and so do we.<br><br>That is what being human is all about, making mistakes and learning not to <br>repeat them stupidly, improving action for the next wave of efforts.<br><br>And surely, we all need to improve!<br><br><br>NingúnOtro.<br><br>> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:10:33 +0200<br>> From: tourovski@gmail.com<br>> To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Open letter to Anonymous (please distribute)<br>> <br>> Ahoi,<br>> <br>> > These people break the laws we are trying to change. We don't have to<br>> > support them but we have to admit that they are our shadow, that we<br>> > move together not because of an agreement but because we react to the<br>> > same things. We don't obey them, they don't obey us. But we hit the<br>> > same targets : where we protest, they are attacking.<br>> There are different ways of "attacking" and breaking the laws.<br>> Considering copyright for example, there are people who break DRM or<br>> develop secure filesharing protocols, and there are those who hack<br>> customer databases and spread private data of innocent users all over<br>> the internet. I would like the Pirate parties to make this kind of<br>> differentiation instead of making general statements like "hacking is<br>> good / hacking is bad".<br>> <br>> > That may look like a dramatization, but a lot of things in the 21st<br>> > century will depend on the stance the world takes toward this<br>> > "intellectual property" mess. It is more than just about culture : it<br>> > encompasses science and technology through patents and copyrights on<br>> > designs, agriculture through property rights on crops species, and<br>> > medicine on the generic drugs issues.<br>> I'm most surely no fan of bashing everyone who mentions "intellectual<br>> property" but in this case you've run into the trap posed by this<br>> terminology. There is no unified "intellectual property" problem, but<br>> rather a number of very different legal fields (both regarding their<br>> aims and the design of the laws) and it's not at all helpful to confuse<br>> things such as copyright, patents and designs.<br>> <br>> Best regards,<br>> Boris<br>> ____________________________________________________<br>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>> pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br> </body>
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