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Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
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."
Who cares about Norway? They didn't even try to resist Hitler. I believe Nords, not Jews, were involved in the Holocaust.
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.
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
Whether or not it's legal is irrelevant. Nowadays, there's a new breed of applications that encrypt exchanges, so their users are safe from lawsuits and prying eyes. GigaTribe is a great example, it's free and you can even exchange entire folders of files with friends: http://www.gigatribe.com/
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.