European Greens Want to Legalize File-Sharing
Written by Ernesto on June 04, 2009Hundreds of millions of Europeans will cast their vote in the European elections this week. In Sweden, The Pirate Party is confident that it will get at least one seat, but they are not the only party aiming to legalize file-sharing for personal use. The Green parties in Europe are also known for their pro-sharing views.
The European Greens, which consists of many national Green political parties throughout Europe, currently hold 42 seats in the European parliament and aim to increase this number for the next term. While the Pirate Party in Sweden received much press coverage for defending The Pirate Bay and sites alike, the Greens were already doing the same thing in the European Parliament.
In 2008 the Greens launched a pro-filesharing campaign named “I Wouldn’t Steal”. The campaign clip they created (see below) was uploaded to The Pirate Bay. Their goal was to counter the anti-piracy propaganda put forward by the entertainment industry, and encourage people to download and share.
Greens “I Wouldn’t Steal” Campaign
This view is also reflected in the party’s principles and actions during the last term of the European Parliament. The Greens were one of the parties that managed to block legislation that would make it easier to implement “three-strikes” and disconnect alleged pirates from the Internet. In addition, they opposed the controversial and draconian IPRED legislation that would criminalize forms of copyright infringement.
“Greens fought against IPRED, which attempted to generalise the use of criminal sanctions in all cases of intellectual property infringements. Greens helped to make sure that criminal sanctions only apply in case of violation of intellectual property rights on a commercial scale and not for personal use,” they write in their Green Book.
The Greens have a clear picture of what the future “information society” would look like. Less copyright, more Open Source software, no software patents, a neutral net, no three strikes, open access to science and the legalization of non-commercial file-sharing, to name a few of their key points.
“Greens support an active vision of the Web as a platform for the exchange of information, with peer-to-peer groups in which each user can upload or download content and applications of choice. The non-commercial use of the Internet must be excluded from all sanction systems,” the Greens write.
On the other hand, the Greens oppose “any systematic surveillance of the net, because it is incompatible with the right to privacy.” So no spying on your download behavior by the entertainment industry or even your Internet provider, and thus no “three strikes” legislation.
For all the European TorrentFreak readers out there, whatever your choice may be, please go out and vote.
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96 Responses
I’ve only voted once (in many years) and it was for the green party. Nevertheless, I think this time if I voted I’d vote for the Pirate Party because it sends a clearer message to the powers that be. Voting green I might be misinterpreted.
nice, the dutch “groenlinks”aims for this to.
you really should have posted this last night…
You should vote, in my opinion anyone that wont vote has no right to bitch and complain when things go wrong….lol
besides, thats about the one right we all have left. even if its not very effective at bringing about change.
They won’t legalize it.
They get my vote, glad I read this before voting.
The Greens are the only real fraction in the EU-parliament that works togheter to realise their common goals. They proved in the past that they won’t allow the industries to gain more power at the expense of the people.
The right of filesharing is one thing, but the parliament will get more power and will have a lot more to say about our day-to-day lives. So consider that when casting your vote to a single-track party like the pirate party… (just consider it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t vote on them. ^^)
@4
“You should vote, in my opinion anyone that wont vote has no right to bitch and complain when things go wrong…”
If I don’t vote, I’m not responsible for everything fucking up and going wrong. Therefore I have every right to complain.
If you HAVE voted and everything gets all fucked up, YOU have no right to complain because you caused the problem.
Just because I choose to share does not make me a criminal. This film reflects reality. Unlike HollyWood I cannot afford to BRIBE, I am sorry, LOBBY politicians to create laws to suit my agenda.
if only this was to become reality! this ishow ‘the net’ should be but jeez, is there going to be some opposition, moaning, arguing etc over this attitude. let the fun and games begin. they’ll get my vote just to see how upset the copyright industries get!!
Oh look at me, I’m green, i drive a hybrid car, i’m gonna save the sky and bunnies and i’m smug and a w@nker!
HA! let’s all be hippies and share our possesions, our wives and daughters and mothers and sisters.
OR NOT!!
Grow a f*ckin pair you c@nts, instead of bitching about the big bad industrialists who won’t let you have toys for free
Things to do :
1. Study up on EU government because I live in the US and I dont understand at all what you’re talking about
2. Move to Europe and vote for the pirate party. :)
@10
Sounds like you don’t have the balls to stand up to tyranny by these multinational corporations.
@americansarefatandstupid
way to miss the point
@10 – POINT FAIL
I just voted for these guys.
Cool Beans.
Stop refering to the Pirat Party as a one-track-only party, please.
The Pirat Party is as much a single-track party as any other. The greens are a singel-track. They just do enviromental things. The socialdemocrats line is the working class. The right wing is about getting more for yourself…
So, calling the Pirate Party a singel-track party is wrong… so wrong…
They want fairtrade and a easier way to share knowledge. This effects EVERYTHING. Science, economics, public health, media, everything!
So. Instead. Refer to them as a “Party that want’s easier acces” or something…
Please.
Well, I think most of the users are much more concerning about Pirate Party, because it is linked (indirectly) to The Pirate Bay.
Now, even HorribleSubs posted the message on their website. Wow… The power of Internet? (o.O”)
voted Pirate Party yesterday, because then I know the full scope of what i’m getting. they promise one thing, and keep it.. the greens, promise a lot, and some things will fall to the wayside..
As pointed out by this article and by TF, the Greens are a wonderful party, and in today’s times the environment is a HUGE concern as well as the other points the greens are trying to do something about.
I really wouldn’t mind voting for them as a second choice, but for this election the pirate party has already gotten my vote simply because PP does not have a whole host of points but very few – narrowed down to just the important ones.
As an example, say party X has 15 very good points they wish to make changes on, then they would have to divide their 100% attention(focus) by 15… and the message kind of gets lost.
On the other hand, if everyone show overwhelming support for PP, everyone is going to take note, with PP having just 3-5 main points its also easier to focus and be strong on those points and have to compromise less.
Also remember, there is NOTHING stopping PP from working with the Greens (or ANY other party) on a lot of issues, the main thing is to get PP in good positions, with hopefully more than just one seat.
As i have said in the beginning, i have already voted PP so I might come of as being a bit biased, but in actuality all I am asking you to do is think a bit before you cast that precious vote – no matter who you are voting for.
Also dont forget TPB raids, BS court trial, RIAA, BS RIAA protection racket, Jim Kezner, BS lawyers on TPB trial, crooked judge, again crooked judge to see if the first judge was crooked etc etc
Cheers!
eZee.se
Greens do this only to get youth’s vote. They care nothing about file sharing but their own concept of this world. To make this Earth more “greeny” — in reality they’d be destroying the economy and would get most of the people around the world jobless if their ideas would be employed.
So, it’s just their trick to get your vote.
I’m from the U.S. so I don’t understand a lot of the EU stuff but if I could vote I would definitely pick the Greens or the Pirate Party.
#10 represents the stupidity that 80% of america (republicans, fundies, antiabortionists, bush supporters, the gun nuts who don’t take proper training to handle guns properly, the ones that call obama hussein or can’t conceptualize a black president) represents. On behalf of the other 20% that tries to be educated on issues and not a blight on the world socially and financially, I apologize for that douchebag and hope he gets it in the karma and develops some cancer.
Well, in Sweden the greens have really bad standpoints in almost every question. They are a really moralistic and socialistic party here. And it is only in the last couple of weeks that the greens, and every party, have started talking about privacy and filesharing. I dont believe any of them.
The great thing with the Pirate Party is that they don’t take any standpoints in other questions then Internet related once. In that way both greens and libertarians can vote for them without the risk of voting for stuff they really don’t agree with.
cool story bro :)
F!RST !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! XD
@10
well, maybe its better after all to be a sort of online hippi than an industry slave with no basic human rights and own privacy?
… generally voting… but specially breaking the law 24/7… there are too many laws… there are too many criminals… ddos the system…
@21 You truly don’t understand economics do you?
In what way would promoting new hi-tech industries geared towards taking us all to a greener way of living leave people jobless?
If the aerospace sector shifted it’s focus to manufacturing wind turbines, or the ship-building industries focussed instead on wave-power technology. It’s not a giant leap, just a step in the right direction. If cars were electric rather than petrol/diesel powered how would that leave people jobless? If we all used less packaging to sell goods which is then removed and discarded, how does that affect jobs in such a grand way?
How can making things more ‘greeny’ possibly affect the economy badly? You claim it would destroy that economy and most people around the world would be jobless – well have a look around yourself right now! Free-market neo-liberal/neo-conservative (same thing) globalised non-regulated capitalist corporatism is what we currently have. It’s thinking is ‘profit above everything’, which is destroying our planet in it’s practice – and it has also destroyed our economy and left most of the people around the world jobless.
So where’s the harm in trying a new direction that has a better chance at improving everyone’s lives than the current model built on waged-slaves and falsely imposed economic disparity and debt?
Stupid right-wing liberals and tories, they’re killing us all.
@8/4 “You should vote, in my opinion anyone that wont vote has no right to bitch and complain when things go wrong…”
If I don’t vote, I’m not responsible for everything fucking up and going wrong. Therefore I have every right to complain.
If you HAVE voted and everything gets all fucked up, YOU have no right to complain because you caused the problem.
No. If you’ve not voted, you’ve got no right to b!tch and moan, because if you’ve taken no action at all to change what you think is wrong, you should have no say whatsoever!
If you sit by and do nothing while you watch the world crumble, then you’re no better than someone who held the door open for a bank robber.
Look how stupid this sounds:
“I’m not going to vote, I’m going to wish and hope it will be okay, and if it’s not I have every right to bitch and moan!”
Grow up and go vote already – if you want change, you should bring it about and not rely on everyone else to do it for you. Co-dependant much?
No Pirate Party in France, so I’m going to vote for the Greens.
Whoever is pushing for laws against filesharing will never ever get my vote.
http://euelection.openrightsgroup.org/
For any Brits who have yet to vote today.
I’m voting Green (from Spain).
It’s the only european party that has raised its voice for P2P and in defense of users in Spain. At least, the only one that has been doing it for long time, with good arguments, and with actions and votes in the european parliament… and not just in a fuzzy promise four days before the election.
Anyway, forget all the reasons out there for voting green… Peter “brokep” Sunde said “VOTE GREEN” in http://voteordie2009.eu/ so just V-O-T-E F*CKING G-R-E-EN.
Unless, of course, there’s a Pirate Party running for the elections in your country ;-)
Yeah,
Sadly, I’m in the U.S., not Europe. If you’re in Europe, please vote. Don’t succumb to the apathy that MAFIAA promotes.
Why didn’t they use the antipiracy-video from IT Crowd :D?
Problem: May TF readers are too young to vote.
Damnit, I voted for the wrong one this afternoon :P
Do you really think voting is going to make any difference? Governments and their representatives are just puppets controlled by the hands of greedy totalitarian corporations trying to deny people’s basic human rights by alienating them with financial restrictions.
The real problem is the sense and desire for community actions is dead. People just bitch about everything while sitting on their @rse in front of their huge flat screen TVs stuffing themselves with overpriced snacks.
Bitching’s only worthy if you get out of your house, get together with sticks in your hands and shove them through the skulls of ruling dictators. The now rotting foundations of capitalism need to be burnt down to the ground.
‘Green’ party?! ‘Pirate’ Party?! What a joke. They’ll take the same bribes as the rest of them.
Well done, Green Party!
Hey guys, im about to vote my first election. Can anyone vote on the pirate party? (i live in belgium)
If i can, ill deffenaly vote for it.
The Green Party in Germany had many chances in the past to do something against criminalizing filesharers and yet the didn’t do anything.
I don’t trust them to do anything for filesharing now besides some talking to get people to vote for them.
Plus they are part of a corrupt system and don’t do enough against corrupt politicians in their own party.
They used to be a trustworthy party with an honest political agenda, but that was twenty years ago.
So I have to say to them: Nice try, but you won’t fool this pirate!
Pirate Party FTW!
This is asanine. Now political parties have come together in support and and promotion of the notion that stealing everything in sight is okay. If we have anyone to blame, it’s The Pirate Bay. TPB is the hitler of copyright. The message of pseudo legitimate “digital freedom” is spreading faster than fascism.
@44 asinine*
Shame the spelling mistake was the best part of your post.
While I like the greens, having two posts more or less advertising for two parties (I’m referring to this one and yesterday’s one about the spanish PP) in less than 24 hours is a bit misleading as to the character of your site. I’d love to see a full-scale article on what the parties think of torrents, and file-sharing in general, but not this sort of “it’s election time and I just remembered Mr. A is such a good guy when it comes to file-sharing, what a coincidence!” stuff.
Seems like EU is not dissimilar from the US. Every country has a55holes.
Go Vote Pirate Party. Don’t be fooled by the Greens. If they really believe what they say then they will work with the Pirate Party.
Sharing isn’t stealing, bro. Touch up on reality, /then/ come back here.
didn’t know that, I did vote for them though.. but for different reasons (view on the eu and such)
Hahaha, hilarious vid.
Legalize it!
ohuenno, ohuenno, ohuenno
i not gonna vote those mps are out at the poling station now brown noseing
the swine’s
@47 : Yeah, when you exchange other work, it is actually. Its just a different kinds that hides behind the pretenses of being different.
File sharing should be perfectly legal. As long as you are sharing your own work and not that of others.
Actually, that’s what many P2P programs were for originally, but anonymity empowers people and they think they are above the law..
I’m Euro but I don’t get a vote. I exist outside of the system.
this really should have been online yesterday, i would have voted if i had read this earlier… i didnt know green parties supported filesharing, but, and im not the only one im doubting they would have done anything… I think they have a huge mouth but dont do anything.
sharing isn’t stealing at all.
to the greedy movie industry they want many to believe that so many will foolishly buy their overprice music, movies to make them richer
why do they want so much money while robbing everyone of their limited funds? its like a drug addiction, they want you hooked on paying for every music or movies to keep you paying so they get richer while you get poorer
everyone save your money for a rainy day, or go out and have a great dinner at a restaurant instead of giving it to someone who don’t deserve any of it. it cost them less then a dollar to make copies of music cd, movies dvd in most cases as little as a quarter that will be sold hundred of times more as marketing as profits.
Sharing music isn’t stealing.
How many people in the AA’s do you think went to their friends house and tape recorded their friends records.
Should they take themselves to court.
They’re probably older than the tape cassette era.
Ray076NL: hard to look up information for yourself? iwouldntsteal was released in 2007 and the greens have been pro p2p for quite a long time. god. you make me wanna cry. try to look up political parties on other places than torrentfreak, will ya?
of course i too wonder how much of a priority this is for the greens. i do think it’s a much larger question for them than 5 years ago though, considering the people acually care now.
the pirate party exists for one reason: because they need to. the issues are so much larger than spoiled kids crying cause they can’t keep a good ratio on torrentleech out of fear of getting their asses kicked.
i will vote for the pirate party because it’s the only party taking this shit seriously. these new laws are sadly for real.
Sharing isn’t stealing?
You guys are forgotting cases like mine, for example: I am a freelance book author and I also develop stuff for the iPhone. I have no publisher or any greedy movie industry behind me. I produce books and this iPhone stuff for living.
I have a mortgage to pay, but thanks to piracy I sell just 1 copy for every 20 copies that are “fair shared”.
I doubt if the guys pirating my stuff will help me if I go bankrupt or something. I will be homeless, nobody will care and my stuff will continue to be pirated.
I don’t see pirates as thieves as the moguls see, but I think this “fair sharing” stuff hurts people like me, that do not have structure to survive zero sales, when the same products are being shared by millios for free.
I have products selling for many prices, starting on $1. Even these products are pirated 20 times more than sold and I know a lot of guys on the same condition. If I had money as these studios, I would give all my stuff for free. I am not greedy. But I have a mortgage to pay and a family to care.
This do not helps people like me to continue investing time and efforts trying to produce stuff that can be cool. The first to be destroyed with file sharing is people like me that do not have money to last for a long time before being crushed by zero sales, when the same products are being shared by millions for free. When all the small guys are destroyed all that will remain will be the big moguls again. The diversity will be lost and we will be back to see what always come from the big studios: the same movie or game, over and over, with no innovation.
You can see my stuff here, if you would like to help. If I had $0.10 for every copy of my stuff being pirated, I would not writting this. Sorry about my english. This is not my language.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=290406205
If the greens are anything like they are here in CA (Radical, left-wing socialistic eco-terrorists) I am no fan but I do appreciate these efforts to protect our rights and privacy on the internet.
Thinking about the article now though… It makes sense. The green movement that wants to put us back into the stone age could actually make a decent point with file-sharing: If you download something on the internet you not wasting gas or spending “Carbon” by driving to the store or having something delivered to your home. Additionally, you aren’t wasting plastics or papers by buying a DVD or something.
That said: How hypocritical is Hollywood? They want to push this green crap on all of us and regulate our lives but when it comes to them they don’t wanna be touched. Same as how the media is blaming O’Reily for that abortionist that was shot… Please, how many times do people want to blame Hollywood for violent behavior, especially amongst youth, but they act as if thats crazy.
Same as how Hollywood and the left-wing agenda is going after cigarettes and fast food. Cigarettes “kill” (Doesn’t everything kill?!?!!?) and fast food is causing obesity (Overeating and a lazy lifestyle cause weight gain but not everyone as we all have a different metabolism). I say: No, Hollywood is making people fat. People wouldn’t be sitting on their ass all day stuffing their face if there wasn’t some garbage from Hollywood to watch on the TV. Let’s ban Hollywood or force Hollywood to break up like we did Microsoft (There is like what, six studios that control all of Hollywood and all the content we see).
This is a very good point of defense about file-sharing though it could be just as easily trumped by buying digital media on the internet but just as how I refuse to buy anything from Itunes (Overpriced and you’re only renting it due to DRM) the same would apply to buying movies or shows online to download so… p2p ftw1.
Open Rights Org (UK) demonstrated to me that Greens were definitely closer to the pirate party than any other. They got my solid vote because of their IP position.
@Trollstyles
“If we have anyone to blame, it’s The Pirate Bay. TPB is the hitler of copyright. The message of pseudo legitimate “digital freedom” is spreading faster than fascism.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
I’ve got to hand it to you, kid. That’s some amusing propaganda. We’re supposed to believe that freedom is tyrany now, are we?
And that tyrany is freedom, apparently, since The Pirate Bay is “Hitler” for daring to stand up and fight against the tyrany of private corporations run amok, private corporations which seek to dictate the law itself and erode our liberty by leaps and bounds using filesharing as a pretext all in the name of lining their wallets.
If George Orwell had forseen how many people(like you) would mistake for a 1984 how-two manual instead of the cautionary tale that it actually was, we would have never written the damn thing.
By the way, I like how after spewing anti-sharing nonsense, you urged people to vote for The Pirate Party. Whoops! Must have accidently posted that comment as ‘neostyles’ instead of one of your other screen names. Having trouble keeping track of them all?
Heh, I did vote GroenLinks / European Greens this afternoon, though not for this reason ;-) (In fact, I think they’re going a bit far with the non-commercial file sharing, but otherwise I consider them the best choice)
@neostyles
You are an idiot, and a fascist.
@neostyles
You are a LIAR.
i just voted green party.
@58, MU:
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html
@8, that’s not true if you voted for the opposite of what happened. Thus, by voting you can say that I tried to help, but unfortunately, we were not enough.
While by not voting, you take a neutral position and you have absolutely no right to complain since you didn’t do anything to change it.
52–>Yeah, when you exchange other work, it is actually. Its just a different kinds that hides behind the pretenses of being different.
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That an idiot has talked.
There doesn’t exist any law against the free exchange of information and culture with others with non-commercial intentions, by any medium, physical or digital.
Can you demonstrate me the contrary? Of course NOT, LIAR!!!
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52–>File sharing should be perfectly legal. As long as you are sharing your own work and not that of others.
FALSE!!!
When the exchange of information and culture is without commercial purposes this is perfectly legal, independently if this is your own work or not…
Again… you are a LIAR!!!
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52–>Actually, that’s what many P2P programs were for originally, but anonymity empowers people and they think they are above the law..
The people share freely any goods (including information and culture) because this is perfectly legal, and an IMBECILE, LIAR and FASCIST as you can’t prove the contrary.
You take your STUPID and OBVIOUS lies and introduce it for your ASS.. :-)
@MU
“but thanks to piracy I sell just 1 copy for every 20 copies that are “fair shared”.”
How do you know that you would have sold 20 copies if there was no such thing as filesharing? How do you know those 20 other people would actually buy your products if they couldn’t get your products for free?
I bet there are alot of things that you’d accept if they were free. Things that you otherwise wouldn’t buy.
@MU
“But I have a mortgage to pay and a family to care.”
But you ARE paying your mortgage and you ARE taking care of your family, aren’t you? Even though 20 people(supposedly) pirate your work for every 1 person who buys it, you’re still making enough money to support your family and keep a roof over your heads.
So what are you complaining about?
You say you’d be crushed by zero sales. But you aren’t making zero sales. You seem to be afraid that nobody will buy your work anymore and everybody will fileshare it instead. But even though there are tens of millions of filesharers, people are nevertheless buying your work.
Sorry, but to me you sound just like the big moguls. They make enough money to survive – actually, they make far more than enough money to survive – and then they sit there and complain that filesharing will ruin them.
Here, let me tell both you and the big moguls a little secret. If filesharing could ruin you, then by now, IT WOULD HAVE. It would have completely. Of course, the big moguls already know this. They just don’t care, because to them, it’s all about greed. They’ll gladly pretend that filesharing is killing them if it allows them to squeeze out a few extra bucks. Just like they pretended that cassette recorders and VCRs were killing them, once upon a time.
Now what about you? Is it all about greed for you, too, or do you truly not realize that if filesharing could crush you, it already would have?
@myself
“If George Orwell had forseen how many people(like you) would mistake for a 1984 how-two manual instead of the cautionary tale that it actually was, we would have never written the damn thing.”
Oh lord. Typo-rama. I don’t usually do this, but that’s so facepalm-worthy let’s try it again:
If George Orwell had forseen how many people(like you) would mistake 1984 for a how-two manual instead of the cautionary tale that it actually was, he would have never written the damn thing.
I would for them but they are the greens :o(
If this was their only policy I would vote for them.
But with all their other ridiculous political positions, it would take a real idiot to vote for them just for this.
green is the color for hope. let us hope, let us vote GREEN
info comes a bit late don’t we think?
@4 – DJ Sketch@1337x.org
You should vote, in my opinion anyone that wont vote has no right to bitch and complain when things go wrong….lol
besides, thats about the one right we all have left. even if its not very effective at bringing about change.
You, sir, are an absolute fucking moron. There are millions of ways to curb “poly-ticks” without having to vote, at all, period. (Although I’m not ruling out voting altogether).
Case and point: In Canada there was a trial going for speed cameras to be implemented which was overruled even though the general public didn’t approve of them. When the speed cameras started being set up around the country, everybody got their baseball bats and smashed every one of those bastards up. The speed cameras were never bought in again. Just goes to show our real voice is not just about voting, but actually doing something.
Heck, remember the French revolution? No? That’s because you are too much of a dumb fuck to understand.
sorry troll.. i mean neostyles sharing is not stealing, the pirate bay is not a bunch of nazis. not sure why you are still here considering how much you hate sharing.
hahaha neostyles, i love the MPAA fans on this site, torrentfreak must be planting them to boost pageviews.
in answer to that dildo who is losing money because people pirate his shitty little boooks, hahahah have you ever thought that maybe that shit you write is not worth paying for.
Honestly get a real job, *giggles* freelance author ahahaha not for much longer i hope
oh btw i use adblock plus and block every ad on the web…. hahaha i guess that is pirating too cause it puts webowners out of work
*cries unconvincingly*
but oh well a pirates life for me
30 – Jun 04, 2009 at 16:12 by Anon
I don’t vote, I’m 40 years old and I don’t care about politics.
I believe people can change things outside the political esphere and make more meaningful contributions.
Filesharing is a phenomenom, a natural one and impacted the whole world it was decided by politicians and governments?
You the people can do more than any government ever could, Katrina was an example, americans complained about the government but didn’t prepared themselves for any tragedy in the other side there was floads in the U.K. where people lost everything but you didn’t see people killing each other, shooting dogs or anything like that, in japan that didn’t happen either when a city was leveled by an earthquake.
So are we going to be like americans in Katrina waiting for federal assistance that may never come and keep complaining or are we gonna be like the british that didn’t care if the government was going to help or not because each way they were prepared?
This means voting is not important?
No it just mean that voting is not that important, it can change things but it’s not the only tool in the box.
sounds too good to be true, doubt anything will happen anytime soon.
I would vote for a pro pirateing party, except we don’t have one yet.
What’s worse, ALL our politicians are completely ignoring anything that has to do copyright and internet rights.
No good candidate to vote for, i’m afraid :(
I don’t know about the greens. I’ve been breaking me bread with greens for a long long time. Still taste like crap.
Got my vote today YARRRRR
“If George Orwell had forseen how many people(like you) would mistake for a 1984 how-two manual instead of the cautionary tale that it actually was, we would have never written the damn thing.”
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hilarious freudian slip that perfectly sums up the beliefs of digital socialism: orwells’s novels are not his own accomplishment, but that of society as a whole. backwards logic is to pirates what water is to fish. or perhaps you changed the placement of a comma or two and it can now justly be considered a “derivative work”?
(LOL)
freetards seek to make amateurs out of professionals and oppress upon them “business models” equivalent to digital tip jars which might as well be digital spittoons for how effective they are at actually procuring a livable wage, much less a deserved wage should the content in question be enjoyed by the masses of whom only a pitiful few will ever feel the moral pang to contribute so much as a penny. see how long that lasts…
Do not forget: this is mostly the attitute of the YOUNG green party subsection. When the REAL green party in Germany was in actual POWER and governing, THEY PASSED ANTI-FILESHARING LEGISLATION.
Never forget – politicians will ALL betray you once THEY get what they want: power.
I say: vote pirates.
Vote for to legalize file sharing Europe! Hopefully U.S. will be the next political movement in making it legal to file share.
Vote Pirates where you have them, vote Green where you don’t.
PIRATES first, Greens second!
I love how the music on the video is keygen, chiptune-style music xD
The Greens also want to legalise weed all over Europe, another plus.
Neostyles
i say Hail Digital Hitler. Ill Expect some yanks round trying to ply my wife away with cheap stockings and chocolate any day now.
But on a serious note, in the uk with all the corruption and scandal that our political system is in, the green party should do wonderfully. as the only opponents are either right wing anti European Unionists, racists, or both.
Viva la revolution
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Probably there’re a lot of corrupt Green MEPs, but it’s not like that for every MEP and every country.
David Hammerstein, Green MEP for Spain, has been the most (or maybe, the only) MEP against three strikes law, and anti-p2p amendments to Telecom Package. He’s been actively speaking and *voting* against it (not like many other MEPs who speaked against it, and then voted for it).
Unfortunately, he’s not running for MEP in these elections, but I hope that the ones who come now are, at least, half as good as him.
Here track this:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2656114
The Hunt For the Gollum.
A free authorized and legal fan film LoL
For the British people who cares about.
This site is tracking MPs that care about digital rights for the people, if you think politics will do any good and are a venue of expression feel free to check it out.
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/06/do-your-mep-candidates-care-about-digital-rights/
The European “Green Parties” also were against war and legalize dope.
And what now?
Germany defends its freedom in afganistan (WTF??) and smoking weed ist punished stronger then ever.
Do not believe hippies.
hippies only like to talk.
Make it legal , it is a fucken time
Movie should be $4 – $5 not $30
Look at my pay look at the actors .
only millions difference
“i say Hail Digital Hitler.”
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you mean the pirate bay’s sugar daddy?
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