Principles
- We value creative works and open creative expression.
- We want artists to get paid a fair market price for their works.
- We want the true authorship of works to be properly represented.
- We cherish Free Speech and Liberty.
- We respect real property rights, but understand that published information is not property.
Interchangeability
Swedish pirates plan pan-European electoral assault
The Register: "The leader of the pro-filesharing Swedish Pirate Party is co-ordinating a pan-European electoral assault for 2009's European Elections."
Steal This Disc
Circuit City and Fair Use.
Circut City is offering to help people transfer their movies from legally purchased copies to their portable media players, the right to do this has been upheld in court, but there is a problem.
From Ars Technica: "Even if fair use clearly provides users the 'right' to make backup and private transformative copies of works that they have purchased, the DMCA itself makes it illegal to circumvent encrypted access controls for any reason not allowed for by the Library of Congress. "
From Ars Technica: "Even if fair use clearly provides users the 'right' to make backup and private transformative copies of works that they have purchased, the DMCA itself makes it illegal to circumvent encrypted access controls for any reason not allowed for by the Library of Congress. "
A webcomic
Going for 4%
Torrentfreak has a nice article on How The Piratebay Raid Changed Sweden and about the rise and future of the Pirate Party in Sweden.
