[governance] EU-elections german pirates party censored

[Ian Peter]

Interestingly I spoke about this to my son who earns his living as a music
composer arranger - and a substantial part of that is performance royalties
on radio, tv etc -

His take on this is that people who make money from his music should pay
royalties. People who just listen to copies and enjoy, different story. They
should have access to all music, we all should, its a great thing if we can
all hear music without having to pay recording companies $$$. Just like we
access information, we should access music. He is happy to provide figures
if anyone wants them to show that very little if any of copy - right charges
ends up in the hands of the performers/composers.

Which backs up Peter's point below.

(ahoy me hearties  --)






On 8/06/09 6:16 PM, "Peter Dambier" <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> the Swedish Pirate Party has spread all over europe. The German Pirates Party
> is one of them. When enough pirates from other european countries have made
> it to Bruxelles we are allowed to form a block. Right now we are glad one of
> us has made it.
> 
> The Pirate Bay was our first hoster and when they were banned was the first
> time the Pirates were banned too. Today, counting the members of the party
> the Pirates are number 3 in Sweden and the Pirates Youth Organisation is
> the biggest Youth Organisation in Sweden and the Queen pays many visits to
> them.
> 
> In Germany our youth have founded an organisation right now and their
> number are growing very fast.
> 
> In copyright we think very much like the french inventor
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard
> 
> who invented the loom mechanism controlled by punched card.
> That machine was almost a computer.
> 
> Jacquard gave his invention to the french people for free. That was the
> first time of Public Domain I guess. In return the french government
> gave him an old age pension so his invention was not in vain.
> 
> Today Copyright Law is a mess. The French Revolution probably would not
> have happend today.
> 
> In the beginning computer programmes have been free too. Without that
> windows would not even exist. That is why we need a reform of Copyright
> Law.
> 
> Censoring one of our sites was a misshap. But misshaps do happen and that
> is why we don't want censoring in the first place.
> 
> If only people had been talking to each other but that is exactly what
> censoring is about.
> 
> Lives of people do depend on Open Access today. It is not ok to let them
> die just for profit. That is why we need to reform the copyright into a
> right of copy :)
> 
> Copying music with a computer that has a copyright tax on it to a cd that
> has a copyright tax on it and the tax is payed to the music industry already
> but the music industry insists that copy is prohibited - that is only one
> side of the coin.
> 
> The other side is people starving because the genes of the pig are
> copyrighted.
> 
> By the way I know of artists "starving" because the tax is payed to the
> copyright industry and not to the artists.
> 
> Kind regards
> Peter
> 
> Ian Peter wrote:
>> According to media reports the Pirate Party has won one or two seats in EU?
>> 
>> http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament
>> -090607/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> According to Wikipedia, The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a
>> political party in Sweden. It strives to reform laws regarding copyright and
>> patents. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right
>> to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency
>> of state administration.
>> 
>> Its formation appears to have something to do with the banning of file
>> sharing site, Pirate Bay?
>> 
>> This appears to be some sort of first for internet and governance?
>> Interested in reports from those who know more.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/06/09 8:21 AM, "Peter Dambier" <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> right during the eu-elections the website
>>> 
>>> piratenpartei.net
>>> 
>>> of the german pirates party gets censored by their
>>> hoster alfahosting.info.
>>> 
>>> Interestingly enough that website is unreachable too.
>>> Afraid of emails I guess.
>>> 
>>> Have a nice weekend
>>> Peter
>> 
>> 
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