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Pirate Party's North American Debut

Posted by samzenpus on from the scuttle-the-continent dept.

adonoman writes "A 25-year-old Winnipeg businessman is the first Pirate Party of Canada candidate to run for federal election. At the same time, the US and UK pirate parties have put out an open letter to Anonymous requesting that they cease Operation Payback's DDOS attacks and focus on taking a legal route to fix intellectual property law."

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  1. Yeah, right. by russotto · · Score: -1, Troll

    Legal means have been exhausted. The pro-copyright side holds the upper hand. The unlawful means won't succeed either, but pissing off one's oppressors is a good thing in itself.

    1. Re:Yeah, right. by sumdumass · · Score: 0, Troll

      I think what it means is that it makes you feel good.

      It's simply playground logic that's being addresses here. So and so pissed you off, so you want to club him or rat to the teacher to get them to club him.

    2. Re:Yeah, right. by blair1q · · Score: -1, Troll

      Okay. You're not necessarily a pirate. You're just semantically misguided. The fact is, if you have something that belongs to me and you didn't pay me for it then either I gave it to you for free or you stole it. Even if you created the copy you possess. The content belongs to me, not you, and you stole it in order to possess it.

      Any questions of how easy it is to copy, whether it deprives me of anything, whether you would or wouldn't have paid for it, etc., are moot. The act of taking something that is not yours is theft.

      Which brings us back to piracy. None of these clowns is a pirate. Pirates are sailors who raid ships. These are pimply jagoffs who flood network connections and rip CDs onto torrents. Put them in a room with an actual pirate and they'd crap into their own mouths to get out.

    3. Re:Yeah, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      of course its playground logic, what do you expect from the bunch of self-obsessed hippies with entitlement issues that run the 'give us free stuff!!!1111' party?

  2. Oh, THAT North America by SuperKendall · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought you meant the real one. Next time just say Canada.

    Yes, even though they are more North. The thing is, it's too North.

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  3. Pirates create junk for the rest of us by B_SharpC · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pirates create junk media for the honest people.
    If you disagree, please post your Credit Card and Bank numbers
    with security codes. It is just electrons for all to see.
    I knew you would not. Pirates are hypocrites.

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    1. Re:Pirates create junk for the rest of us by B_SharpC · · Score: -1, Troll

      You refused to post your Credit Account number.
      You want copyright protection for YOUR data but not for OTHER people's data, articles or music. Hypocrite!

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