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We have 3 core policies:
• Reform copyright and patent law. We want to legalise non-commercial file sharing and reduce the excessive length of copyright protection, while ensuring that when creative works are sold, it's the artists who benefit, not monopoly rights holders. We want a patent system that doesn't stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die.
• End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses.
• Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture.
ACTA Supporters - UKIP named and shamed
10th March 2010 17:06 | by Andrew Robinson
Update 2: Statement from UKIP added to the end of the article.
Update: Three Netherlands MEPs have changed their vote, leaving UKIP as the ONLY party that supports ACTA.
Opposition to the secret ACTA treaty is spreading like wildfire. Today the members of the European Parliament had their say, as on a resolution against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, arguing that it flouts agreed EU laws on counterfeiting and piracy online. MEPs will go to the Court of Justice if the EU does not reject the leaked proposals which include draconian powers to censor the internet and disconnect net connections.
The result was a massive landslide in favour of open government and internet freedom. 636 MEPs were on the side of freedom, and just 10 voted in favour of ACTA.
I can now name and shame those 10, people who were elected to represent us, but who want us to be ...
The internet without net neutrality
10th March 2010 06:00 | by Philip Hunt
Ever wondered what the internet would look like without net neutrality. Wonder no further:
If you want to prevent this from becoming reality, join the Pirate Party.
Solihull school installs CCTV in children's toilets
9th March 2010 17:21 | by Andrew Robinson
While catching up on local news, I was shocked to read that a school near my home town of Worcester has installed CCTV in the children's toilets.
I wasn't shocked that it happened, because I have read so many stories recently about people in low level positions of authority who assume they have a 'right to spy' that trumps any else's right to privacy. What shocked me was the headline itself. It didn't say "Headmaster arrested for installing CCTV in children's toilets", or "Headmaster resigns after being caught installing CCTV in children's toilets." It didn't even say "Headmaster apologises after installing CCTV in children's toilets." Instead the headline was a plain and unadorned "Chelmsley Wood school puts CCTV in pupil toilets."
It's time for us to decide what sort of world we want our children to grow up in. Do we ...
Dutch Pirates set sail
9th March 2010 06:14 | by Philip Hunt
Britain is not the only country holding a general election this summer. In the Netherlands, the general election will be held on 9th of June, and the newly-formed Dutch Pirate Party, Piratenpartij Nederland, is hoping to take part.