Interview with Swedens Pirate Leader Rickard Falkvinge
The Pirate leaders are quite talkative today. First the US Pirate leader, now the leader of Sweden’s piratpartiet.
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US Pirate Party Interview
Two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the Piratebay raid, the US equivalent of the Swedish pirate party “piratpartiet” was founded.
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Sympathy for the Pirate
Sweden again. The Filesharing debate continues, and the Pirate’s vote might be an important one in the upcoming election. Justice minister Thomas Bodström is flirting openly with filesharers, while the Pirate Party is getting bigger and bigger. Lars Ilshammar, an information-technology historian who recently suggested Sweden to impose a fee similar to the one proposed [...]
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Young Swedes Love Filesharing
75% of the young voters in Sweden support filesharing, even if it’s illegal, according to a recent survey. This indicates that filesharing is going to be a hot topic in the coming elections. Over 75 percent of those asked said it was OK to download illegally from the Internet, said the survey. These figures indicate [...]
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Piratbyrån Speech
Rasmus Fleischer form the Swedish pro-piracy organization PiratbyrÃ¥n gave a talk at the Reboot8 conference., he discussed copyright issues and PiratbyrÃ¥n thoughts and vision. The Reboot8 conference is “a journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas”. The Grey Commons Intro There has [...]
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Don’t treat our fans as thieves, let them share music!
The revolution starts in Canada. Canadian musicians are rising up against p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and the prohibition of copying and sharing Music. They’ve started a new group called the Canadian Music Creators Coalition. “Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates,” they state unequivocally. “Sharing music has been happening for decades.” A [...]
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Michael Geist Interview
Michael Geist’s interpretation of a recent study on how downloading affects the music bussiness caused quite some controversy. Geist concluded from the study that filesharing does not hurt the record industry. P2Pnet interviewed Geist, they discuss several p2p related issues and it seems that Geist is a fan of BitTorrent. Dr Michael Geist has become [...]
