9.6.2006
Pirate Party: "Downloading is not filesharing"
Now that already three other parties have changed their positions on the issue of filesharing, Pirate Party is challenging them with its new
press release to be precise and honest about what they are promising to voters. Many of the newborn p2p-friendly politicians are merely talking about legalizing 'downloading' while Pirate Party emphasizes in its own agenda how the legalization of
both downloading and uploading is necessary for modern p2p networks to be legal. Legalizing uploading has far-reaching consequences: it empowers individuals to act as free global distributors for any legal content they want to share without fear of punishment or costs. The idea is not to legalize distribution of illegal content like child porn but otherwise sharing e.g. copyrighted music or movies would be legal.
Pirates buy a lock of Justice Minister's hair
Dagens Nyheter
reports how Piracy Bureau (Piratbyrån) has bought a lock of Justice Minister Thomas Bodström's hair in a charity auction broadcast on the Swedish P3 channel. The winning bid was 10,101 Swedish crowns (1086 euros / 1383 USD). "That really touched me", commented Bodström who has come under a lot of political pressure due to his role in the Pirate Bay raid. "And the absolutely best thing is that now they have the copyright to that lock and can do what they want with it".
The studio audience whispered something about 'taking a scalp' and 'hairrising'. "We will naturally make business with it", announced Pelle Thorsson, the representative of Piratbyrån in the studio. "For example, we can sell each single hair on eBay".
