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Ask the UK Pirate Party's Andrew Robinson About the Issues

Posted by kdawson on from the but-not-about-the-eyepatch dept.

VJ42 writes "With the 2010 UK general election fast approaching, the Pirate Party of the United Kingdom will be fielding elections for the first time. The Digital Economy bill and ACTA are hot topics for UK geeks, and the Pirate Party is looking to pick up some votes. Their leader, Andrew Robinson, has agreed to answer your questions. Normal Slashdot interview rules apply."

2 of 391 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Forcing authors to lose rights over work by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 0, Troll

    shouldn't content producers, artists, programmers, and basically anyone producing something have a right to their work?

    A loaded question. Of course they should have a right to their work - that is not the question. The real question is: should media content producers have the right to profit off the artificial scarcity of digital goods?
    When the cost to copy digital content is fixed, why should they have the right to charge for each digital copy as if it is a scarce item at many thousands of percent markup over the price to copy that item?

  2. Re:Monster Raving Loony Party by Cederic · · Score: 0, Troll

    UKIP are not a far right or far left party. They are (as you highlight) a single issue party.

    I'll happily vote UKIP, and I'll happily take up arms against the BNP. Putting them both in the same category is naive and/or disingenuous.