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I work for the Pirate Party MEP in the Parliament. My understanding is that this is mostly about German (and to a lesser degree Spanish) publishers putting pres

by c3o 12y ago

I work for the Pirate Party MEP in the Parliament. My understanding is that this is mostly about German (and to a lesser degree Spanish) publishers putting pressure on Google for their various interests, including that they want to be paid when Google uses snippets of their content in Google News: https://juliareda.eu/2014/11/breaking-up-google-or-just-bankrolling-publishers/ https://juliareda.eu/2014/11/breaking-up-google-or-just-bank...

skrebbel 12y ago
Curious, what is the Pirate Party's stance on this? (I have no idea how to find individual MEP votes on bills)
- pgeorgi 12y ago
  https://juliareda.eu/en/ https://juliareda.eu/en/ is the website of the Pirate MEP, and she's quite active in her communication. There's some mention of Green MEPs every now and then which is because she joined their coalition.
- tonfa 12y ago
  http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint-motion-for-resolution-vote-resolution.html http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint... (and she voted against)
- avz 12y ago
  I think there are actually two interesting questions here since there are now many Pirate Parties in Europe. One about the general stance of pirate parties and one about the stance of the German PP specifically. I would generally expect a pirate party to support free-of-charge publishing of snippets and linking to content on the internet as a basis for the open internet. On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.
  - barsoap 12y ago
    > On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry. It's not actually in that industry's interest and even if in were, no, the Piratenpartei is completely opposed. Noone is seeing any problem with defending google in one instance, and bashing them in another.

by c3o 12y ago

skrebbel 12y ago

Curious, what is the Pirate Party's stance on this? (I have no idea how to find individual MEP votes on bills)

pgeorgi 12y ago
https://juliareda.eu/en/ https://juliareda.eu/en/ is the website of the Pirate MEP, and she's quite active in her communication. There's some mention of Green MEPs every now and then which is because she joined their coalition.
tonfa 12y ago
http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint-motion-for-resolution-vote-resolution.html http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint... (and she voted against)
avz 12y ago
I think there are actually two interesting questions here since there are now many Pirate Parties in Europe. One about the general stance of pirate parties and one about the stance of the German PP specifically. I would generally expect a pirate party to support free-of-charge publishing of snippets and linking to content on the internet as a basis for the open internet. On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.
- barsoap 12y ago
  > On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry. It's not actually in that industry's interest and even if in were, no, the Piratenpartei is completely opposed. Noone is seeing any problem with defending google in one instance, and bashing them in another.