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Pirates in Finland now.
It is now official. The Pirate Party has received the necessary number of members to officially register themselves as a political party in Finland. It seems there is a mini-revolution in Europe. It first happened in Sweden, where they managed to garner almost 7 % of the vote in their first European Parliamentary vote in June 2009. As a result, they won their first seat, and ever since then, they have successfully formed political parties in Britain, as well as in the Czech Republic and the latest in Australia. Will they continue to garner support from the younger generations and win in elections?
At this point, it is almost certain that they have started a mini-revolution of sorts. No thanks to the incessant onslaught of American copy right holders of music and movies, these frustrated consumers have come out to show that they are somebody to be reckoned with. For years, they have suffered due to their inability to use as they like the music disk that they had bought. Just imagine, after they have doled out their hard earned money to buy those disks, they are told that they don’t own those things! And to make it even more frustrating, they can’t even save a copy of their bought disk in their computers and MP3s. So they revolted by downloading it from the internet. The rest could be history.
As the revolution picks up steam, it would not be surprised that one day these youngsters will rule the world and make copy rights obsolete. Besides wanting to change the copy right laws, the pirate Party has also vowed to make file sharing legal and allowed freedom of speech. They have also stated their stand that present day pharmaceutical patents are stifling and killing the poor of the world by allowing unaffordable prices for life saving drugs to prevail. They and others have vehemently argued that the patent laws now have indeed stifled innovations, instead of its original purpose of encouraging more ideas. And America, once the innovation capital of the world, has been responsible for all the rot with their infamous Millennium Rights legislation. What then IPR (intellectual property rights) in the future?
August 22, 2009.