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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. I wonder by AlphaLop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what Norway's immigration policy is. I am retiring and living on a catamaran in about 10 years and I was thinking about leaving the USA anyway if it does not stop becoming so politically and religiously insane over here.

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    It's only paranoia if your wrong...
  2. Re:What? by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great, so now I have to pay taxes to make films I don't want to watch? This is effectively communism.

    Unless you live in a Third World failed state, chances are your government already subsidizes at least some amount of art production out of your tax dollars. Pretty much every historical era has considered the arts important to the functioning of a healthy society and therefore worthy of public support. It's not as you suggest some notion that Marx and Engels introduced.