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Pirate Party Becomes a Registered Political Party In Australia
First time accepted submitter norpy writes "The Australian branch of the pirate party has today announced that their registration as a political party has been successful. According to the announcement the party will now turn its attention to selection of candidates and development of policies for the upcoming federal election. 'Organising and validating a membership database to then submit to the AEC for the purposes of registration is a daunting task. Fortunately, we had a team of volunteers who were prepared to spend many weekends ensuring that the list we sent to the AEC was entirely valid, and I thank them for their effort,' said Brendan Molloy, Secretary of Pirate Party Australia."
The Norwegian Pirateparty got enough signatures andis also now a legal party that will be in the 2013 election.
Shooters party, pirate party and KAP, now i need to make a decision! Good thing we have preferential voting, looks like i'm going to have to number below the line for the table cloth vote.
It's going to be someone lazy. Why not an Australian? What are you? Prejudiced?
In my mind, any software that does not evolve for 5 years is either:
a. complete - so that nobody is hurt by inclusion in a commercial software - the original still exists (anyone stupid enough to use it as sold by a party instead of taking it from the public domain is paying the stupidity tax)
b. dead prematurely - as in "incomplete but with no maintainers" - in which case too small chances to be revived in open source.
So, how's open source movement losing from a copyright reduced to 5 years?
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
In other words, the Party of Thieves. How admirable.
I didn't know the RIAA or the MPAA were a political party :O
It's worth noting that this only applies to one particular Pirate Party.
When we set up the Pirate Party UK, I exchanged mails with RMS on the length of copyright he would consider reasonable, and he was happy with our 10 year proposal.
If the Australian Pirate Party go for 10 years not 5, then we can assume RMS won't object to that either.
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I try to stay out of these discussions and I'll keep the question neutral but I'm curious what people see as the goal of things like the Pirate Party? Defunding movies, music and software seems counterproductive so what is the solution? If it's a party then it has to have goals? I know the dream is the end of copyrights and the free exchange of all information but it's an unrealistic goal so what is the compromise since in sense the goal of politics is compromise? I figure if we're going to cover the subject yet again there should be more interesting discussion than devolving into the standard "Piracy, good", "Copyright, bad" posts. The goal should be discussing solutions or the whole thread becomes redundant. FYI I'm not trying to troll here it's a legitimate question and an opening to offer sensible options.
... the kids running it might realise that adults who have to work for a living have more important things to worry about than whether they can download music and video for free. You know, minor things like healthcare, education, the economy etc etc...
By the time healthcare becomes an issue for that generation they'll be able to download pirated plans for medical droids off the internet and print them out on their 3D printers. I'm also pretty sure that by then uploading knowledge directly into your brain will have become a reality. As for 'mainstream economics', these will have been superseded by Warcraft economics and we'll all be able to support ourselves by mining for bitcoins online.
The Greens are rising in power because the major two are seen as pathetic, and voters are looking for the most sane party to fill this gap. Unfortunately the closest thing we have had to 'sane', is the Greens. While some of their policies are good, they are on a whole batshit crazy and is not acceptable option to most people, so they fall back onto the major two.
With The Pirate Party, if you just get past the name and actually look at the policies, they are not that bad.
Under two-party preferred system, their votes will probably be funnelled to the Greens, which would then be funnelled to Labor. At least it will be a start and show that the major two are falling in popularity.
So, which party do you recommend that has an "adult" focus and aren't just a bunch of liars?
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
I'm a big fan of RMS, but that article is possibly the stupidest thing he's ever written.
Forcing people to put their code in escrow for enforced release when copyright expires is police-state coercion. The idea that such a law could possibly be enforceable is ludicrous.
Or maybe they are already mature enough to realise it's not about downloading music and video for free but rather about mankinds future.
You know, minor things like freedom, innovation and mankinds future survival in the long run.
All our progress so far has been dependant on refining things already done, and when the patent system stops this rather than helping it might mean that in the future we will get less innovation -> human will devolvle and die.
(And we will also get less music, film and other culture, but that's survivable)
I think they picked a silly name that costs them votes, but most of the Sex Party policies are actually pretty good. Better than the LibLabs anyway.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
FYI, there's a method behind the madness of this "silly" name...
http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/
http://falkvinge.net/2011/02/20/why-the-name-pirate-party/
"Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." - Bernard Baruch
Have you read the Pirate Party's submission regarding copyright review, or their submission regarding patent reform? Do you have specific points of disagreement other than just implying that it is not sensible?
Absolutely nothing of this would be possible without all the mathematics, physics and chemistry developed before, which amounted for most of these "discoveries", as I said. To add even more to my point, all of these inventions you used as examples were about and in the process to be invented by someone else other than their creators when they were patented. The creators just did it a bit faster.