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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are joking, I hope? You don't really want a group of people who have absolutely no respect for the rights and livelyhood of authors and musicians to come to power, do you? Or don't you believe that anyone has the right to make a living by writing books or music?
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hey golly, we certainly wouldn't want to jump to any conclusions about what other people beleive, would we ?? no !! so we'll make a point of FINDING OUT WHAT THE PIRAT PARTI IS ACTUALLY ABOUT before getting all irate and shouting "exterminate" !! i actually listened to the entire hour-long speech which was linked to in a different thread around here quite some time ago, and i frankly have to agree with pretty much everything that guy has to say.
believe it or not, they DO respect the rights and livelyhood of authors and musicians !! completely !! and in fact they are in favor of keeping copyright, although definitely not in the bloated and abusive form it currently has. can't argue with that !
however they also are pretty attached to their privacy, as individuals, and don't like the idea of ISPs playing the internet police. which seems like a pretty reasonable point of view to me too.
so yes, i do want the Pirat parti to come to power, and i ALSO want people to continue making a living by writing books and music, and those two desires are in NO WAY mutually exclusive.