Multinational Political Party

It seems that pirates are more concerned about preserving civil liberties than most political parties. On January 1, 2006 the Swedish political party Piratpartiet (Pirate Party) was founded to address three issues:

• Reform of copyright law
• An abolished patent system
• Respect for the right to privacy

Since then Pirate Parties have been founded in many other countries, including the US, Italy, Germany and Austria, and PP International has been created to unite them.

In a recent interview with OUT-LAW.COM Rick Falvinge, founder of Piratpartiet, had this to say
“The entertainment industry is what drives today's witch hunt on civil liberties, DRM technologies is the large media cartels' way of writing their own laws to circumvent copyright laws and we do have an elected parliament to write such laws.”

Read more at The Register or hear the interview at OUT-LAW Radio.

Disclosure: I have volunteered to help PP International with web development. No, I didn’t design the logo. That was done by proj0.

Tags: Politics, Pirate Party, Piratpartiet, Internet, Copyright, Intellectual Property, DRM, Privacy, patent