As a non-commissioned officer (2nd Lt) in this non-existent army, I can attest to that. We may look lost in international politics, but we manufacture some of the best weapons available (and some which are not available), and the one thing you wouldn't want is a pissed-off Swedish population taking to arms. Where our politicians fail, the men and women of the country stand extremely proud and do not bend over.
Should a country invade, an aggressive superpower in particular, you'd have every man, woman, and child capable of carrying a gun as rebellion - and Swedes are the organized, cold and rational kind with a chilly, calculating stare. Iraq would look like Kansas in comparison.
How is this better than the already-in-trials Cypak box, which also reminds the patient to take the pills, registers the time/date taken per pill, transfers results over RFID to doctors, etc, has the added advantage of looking exactly like an ordinary pharma blister pack?
Oh, and speaking of the Pirate Bay investigation, Pirate Bay operator Anakata confessed to this crime under interrogation. The Palme assassination, that is. He was 5 years old at the time. Interrogators were not amused.
I am assuming the biggest investigation would be the (failed) investigation into the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on Feb 28, 1986. AFAIK, they still have 25 policemen working on that one.
Imagine what a couple dozen people can produce in twenty years, and you're getting in the right ballpark.
Imagine you wanted to prohibit gay sex (not that long ago we did), and someone said: "The enforcement of this is ineffective, we need the right to break into people's houses at night and lift the covers". At that point it would hardly matter if you agreed with the law, you'd tell them to stay the fuck out of your bedroom. That is where the RIAA is now, and they're being told to stay the fuck out of people's Internet connection.
Thank you for an excellent new analogy. I've been using the fact that homosexuality was illegal not long ago as a strong point against surveillance (for who would have come out, even to friends, and challenged the law if being homosexual itself was illegal?).
This point ties very nicely in with the existing pro-privacy story.
Ah. Sorry, for some strange Slashdot-bug reason I didn't see the parent at first (and now I also see that you're the one who submitted the interview to Slashdot -- so first, thank you, and second, humble apologies for the knee-jerk reaction as obviously you're aware of PP).
You're not required to respect me in the slightest, but I think you are jumping to conclusions. We've been discussing this full time for the past three or four years (with the Pirate Party being founded on Jan 1, 2006) -- it's a rare day I get a new question.
I've been exposed to pretty much every argument, angle, and corner out there in this debate. Obviously you don't have to respect me for that, but you'd do well to assume that I've seen the pros and cons of most dimensions of this structural shift.
Oh, and as always, if I had known in advance this interview would end up on Slashdot, I would have spent more time on it.:) Which president said "If I knew I would make president, I would have studied harder"?
Yes, he means that all noncommercial (i.e. not-for-profit) file sharing should be fully legalized, i.e. that nobody must be allowed to monitor and police the Internet for copyright infringements.
As I have met the man in question, I am well aware of his points and arguments.
Then let me say in public that I am positively and overwhelmingly in favor of the widespread and illegal copyright-infringing sharing of culture and knowledge. It is an enormously positive force to society.
The most obvious difference is that it was possible for the US to win the Civil War.
I hate to point out the obvious, but the civil war was the US fighting other parts of the US. Of course it was possible for the US to win. At least, some part of it. It was pretty much a guaranteed outcome.
Of course. Russia is part of the US judicial system. So is the rest of the world, like Montana and Oregon.
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The Pirate Party also claims, with good justification (although a bit less of it in English), that patents should be abolished outright. Good to see some others chime in.
The Swedish copyright law is named "The Right of Origins". It has its roots in the right to be credited with your work, a right written into law in the 11th century.
The commercial monopoly construct, added to the same law for historical reasons, came over half a millennium later.
Unfortunately, Sweden has a principle called "free trial of evidence" (fri bevisprövning) that explicitly says that any material gathered through any means, including surplus surveillance material and illegaly gathered surveillance material, is fully admissible in court.
This is a bad idea for the reason that countries have secret voting.
A significant part of "secret voting" is that not only is the government unable to look into how you personally vote, but it must also guarantee that nobody else can look into it, so that the vote is yours and yours alone.
When you vote from home, this guarantee cannot be fulfilled, as you can be pressured into voting for whatever by whomever else happens to be in the house with you at that time. That is not necessarily a very pleasant experience.
Yes, it's important. It's one of the paramount issues we face today. Hell, I'd not only support a candidate that talked about privacy (there aren't any in Sweden), I'd even start a new party focused on privacy and the right to a private life.
Oh, wait. I did. And it was reasonably successful too, although the privacy debate is just starting out in Sweden...
And would you bet money on the impossibility of spoofing a specific motherboard identity?
Similar things have been done before in so many different scenarios... Just to take a trivial example, MAC addresses were supposed to be unique for each network card, too.
It cannot, ever, unless they disallow software players from any platform not running on Trusted Computing enabled hardware and a Trusted Computing enabled operating system.
And at that point, virtualization kits will become commonplace that run Windows in a sandbox so that Windows thinks it's in a Palladium environment, but where it's really not.
If it can be played, it can be copied. Playing is copying. Any manipulation of digital data is copying it. Trying to make bits not copyable is trying to make water not wet.
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As a non-commissioned officer (2nd Lt) in this non-existent army, I can attest to that. We may look lost in international politics, but we manufacture some of the best weapons available (and some which are not available), and the one thing you wouldn't want is a pissed-off Swedish population taking to arms. Where our politicians fail, the men and women of the country stand extremely proud and do not bend over.
Should a country invade, an aggressive superpower in particular, you'd have every man, woman, and child capable of carrying a gun as rebellion - and Swedes are the organized, cold and rational kind with a chilly, calculating stare. Iraq would look like Kansas in comparison.
How is this better than the already-in-trials Cypak box, which also reminds the patient to take the pills, registers the time/date taken per pill, transfers results over RFID to doctors, etc, has the added advantage of looking exactly like an ordinary pharma blister pack?
I cannot be bothered with this metric stuff! Use units I can relate to!
How high was the fence measured in Libraries of Congress?
Oh, and speaking of the Pirate Bay investigation, Pirate Bay operator Anakata confessed to this crime under interrogation. The Palme assassination, that is. He was 5 years old at the time. Interrogators were not amused.
I am assuming the biggest investigation would be the (failed) investigation into the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on Feb 28, 1986. AFAIK, they still have 25 policemen working on that one.
Imagine what a couple dozen people can produce in twenty years, and you're getting in the right ballpark.
Actually, it's entirely appropriate.
Piracy _does_ involve two consenting people doing things in private (exchanging digital information). The person who objects is a third party.
Thank you for an excellent new analogy. I've been using the fact that homosexuality was illegal not long ago as a strong point against surveillance (for who would have come out, even to friends, and challenged the law if being homosexual itself was illegal?).
This point ties very nicely in with the existing pro-privacy story.
Rick
Ah. Sorry, for some strange Slashdot-bug reason I didn't see the parent at first (and now I also see that you're the one who submitted the interview to Slashdot -- so first, thank you, and second, humble apologies for the knee-jerk reaction as obviously you're aware of PP).
No, I'm not. But I'm running a party in the top ten scoreboard in Sweden.
You're not required to respect me in the slightest, but I think you are jumping to conclusions. We've been discussing this full time for the past three or four years (with the Pirate Party being founded on Jan 1, 2006) -- it's a rare day I get a new question.
:) Which president said "If I knew I would make president, I would have studied harder"?
I've been exposed to pretty much every argument, angle, and corner out there in this debate. Obviously you don't have to respect me for that, but you'd do well to assume that I've seen the pros and cons of most dimensions of this structural shift.
Oh, and as always, if I had known in advance this interview would end up on Slashdot, I would have spent more time on it.
Yes, he means that all noncommercial (i.e. not-for-profit) file sharing should be fully legalized, i.e. that nobody must be allowed to monitor and police the Internet for copyright infringements.
As I have met the man in question, I am well aware of his points and arguments.
I'm sorry, but your statement has no basis in fact. Sweden is the world's third largest exporter of music.
Exactly. If a large enough percentage of the population wants the law to change, they will simply vote in new politicians.
Most of the time, the existing politicians sense this is about to happen ahead of time, and change the law themselves.
That's how democracy works. Or at least, how it's supposed to work.
Then let me say in public that I am positively and overwhelmingly in favor of the widespread and illegal copyright-infringing sharing of culture and knowledge. It is an enormously positive force to society.
Not true. System, Hidden only. It's perfectly deletable by an installer.
I hate to point out the obvious, but the civil war was the US fighting other parts of the US. Of course it was possible for the US to win. At least, some part of it. It was pretty much a guaranteed outcome.
Of course. Russia is part of the US judicial system. So is the rest of the world, like Montana and Oregon.
The Pirate Party also claims, with good justification (although a bit less of it in English), that patents should be abolished outright. Good to see some others chime in.
The Swedish copyright law is named "The Right of Origins". It has its roots in the right to be credited with your work, a right written into law in the 11th century.
The commercial monopoly construct, added to the same law for historical reasons, came over half a millennium later.
Unfortunately, Sweden has a principle called "free trial of evidence" (fri bevisprövning) that explicitly says that any material gathered through any means, including surplus surveillance material and illegaly gathered surveillance material, is fully admissible in court.
If you know that the day after your product goes to market, a dozen other identical ones will be on the shelf next to it, why bother?
Well, ask Nokia, Ericsson or Motorola in the mobile phone market.
Or I could give you the answer right now: if you don't bring your product to market anyway, you're not gonna sell it at all.
This is a bad idea for the reason that countries have secret voting.
A significant part of "secret voting" is that not only is the government unable to look into how you personally vote, but it must also guarantee that nobody else can look into it, so that the vote is yours and yours alone.
When you vote from home, this guarantee cannot be fulfilled, as you can be pressured into voting for whatever by whomever else happens to be in the house with you at that time. That is not necessarily a very pleasant experience.
Yes, it's important. It's one of the paramount issues we face today. Hell, I'd not only support a candidate that talked about privacy (there aren't any in Sweden), I'd even start a new party focused on privacy and the right to a private life.
Oh, wait. I did. And it was reasonably successful too, although the privacy debate is just starting out in Sweden...
And would you bet money on the impossibility of spoofing a specific motherboard identity?
Similar things have been done before in so many different scenarios... Just to take a trivial example, MAC addresses were supposed to be unique for each network card, too.
It cannot, ever, unless they disallow software players from any platform not running on Trusted Computing enabled hardware and a Trusted Computing enabled operating system.
And at that point, virtualization kits will become commonplace that run Windows in a sandbox so that Windows thinks it's in a Palladium environment, but where it's really not.
If it can be played, it can be copied. Playing is copying. Any manipulation of digital data is copying it. Trying to make bits not copyable is trying to make water not wet.