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Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing

Posted by kdawson on from the pirate-party-platform dept.

dot-magnon writes "The Liberal Party of Norway (Venstre) passed a unanimous resolution that advocates legal file sharing. The party wants to legalise sharing of any copyrighted material for non-commercial use. It also proposes a ban on DRM technology, free sampling of other artists' material, and shortening the life span of copyright. The Liberal Party is the first Norwegian political party, and the first European mainstream political party, to advocate file sharing. The Liberal Party's youth wing proposed the resolution."

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  1. Get ready by tehwebguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    WTO complaint in 3..

    2..

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  2. Terrorist State by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long before Norway is declared a terrorist state?

  3. Re:Software? by 3vi1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn... When I started to read your post, I thought for sure it was going to say: "If DRM is outlawed, only outlaws will have DRM".

  4. Re:What? by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    A big part of the Swedish movie industry is funded by the government.

    That explains why the Swedish movie industry, instead of the evil capitalist studio system in Hollywood, USA, dominates the global market for movies.

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