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Happy to see that the Pirate Party is standing up for fair copyright laws regardless of who their opponent is. Hopefully this law will whither away.

• cturner 15y ago
  Not so in this corner. Use of the idea of fairness in argument is a red flag suggesting a lack of foundation by the person arguing. I think this opposition suggests that the party takes its positions from who its opponents are, rather than extending from a coherent underlying philosophy. The Pirate Party should take a strict line - abolish copyright altogether - rather than buying into the premises of their opponents but then trying to make a murky case about fairness. The French law could lead to good things. I'm on the lookout for an event where a government makes a significant concession against copyright and then finds that there are trade advantages to it. A well-publicised example of this could cause the floodgates will open, and there will be a race to liberalise. I see a parallel to the period of history where England lost the US colonies. They abandoned mercantalism for a free-trade model, and actually got richer despite the loss of a major colony.
  • darxius 15y ago
    From what I understand of the Pirate Party's mandate on copyright law, it seeks only to reform -- not abolish -- current copyright shenanigans. I got this information from the Pirate Party of Canada (but I'm pretty sure it's a universal mandate).