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Pirate Party's North American Debut
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."
pissing off one's oppressors is a good thing in itself.
How is that a good thing? If you mean oppressors in a figurative manner, making someone angry doesn't make you more right, and often it causes your side to lose support. If you mean literal oppressors, then pissing them off usually just ends up causing greater oppression. Anonymous and the Pirate Party are fighting a law. Laws are not repealed by going out and breaking more laws.
All the world's a CPU, and all the men and women merely AI agents
Laws are not repealed by going out and breaking more laws.
Of course they are.
Quite effectively, too.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Only when you can get positive media coverage out of it. Public sympathy is important.
"...there is always a legal means: getting very wealthy and changing the copyright laws."
FFY
Given Mr. Coleman's limited budget, to save save money, he only used a single campaign sign and posted it on the web. It's an interesting take on IP rights, given that the used another sign to create his.
"and basically told them to F off"? Umm, no. From your own link: "We recognize and respect the work of all the Pirate Parties and wish them luck. We hope that they all continue their fight as they think is right. And so will we fight, as we think is right." That's a mile away from telling anyone to "F off". They're supporting the same cause - they're just not aligned in their methodology.