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29th April 2012 13:33 by Harry Percival
Today’s copyright legislation is out of balance, and out of tune with the times. It has turned an entire generation of young people into criminals in the eyes of the law, in a futile attempt at stopping technological development. Yet file sharing has continued to grow exponentially. Neither propaganda, fear tactics, nor ever harsher laws have been able to stop the development. It is impossible to enforce the ban against non-commercial file sharing without infringing on fundamental human rights. As long as there are ways for citizens to communicate in private, they will be used to share copyrighted materials. The only way to even try to limit file sharing is to remove the right to private communication. In the last decade, this is the direction that copyright enforcement legislation has moved in, under pressure from big business lobbyists who see their monopolies under threat. We need to reverse this trend to safeguard fundamental rights.
"The Pirate Party love Musicians!"
24th April 2012 13:57 by Harry Percival
People sometimes ask us "how come you hate musicans? why do you want to stop them making money". Now without getting into our favourite argument about how that analysis is *all wrong*, instead we'd like to give a huge shout, and some big love, to a few musicans we've come across recently...