you mean the pirate bay’s sugar daddy?

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.

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 Hunt For the Gollum.
A free authorized and legal fan film LoL

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.

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

The Greens also want to legalise weed all over Europe, another plus.

I say: vote pirates.

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…

……

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 :(

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?

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.

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.

But with all their other ridiculous political positions, it would take a real idiot to vote for them just for this.

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.

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?

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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.. :-)

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.

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html

You are a LIAR.

You are an idiot, and a fascist.

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?

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.

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

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.