UK Pirate Party Election Manifesto

[Leo Ghost]

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010 ... n-manifes/

Copyright and Patents
-A new right to format shift (for example, buy a CD then copy it to an iPod - which is currently illegal);
-A new right to time shift (record a TV programme for watching later) and
-A new right to share files (which provides free advertising that is essential for less-well-known artists).

Counterfeiting, and profiting directly from other people's work without paying them, will remain illegal.

Privacy
-we will forbid third parties from intercepting or monitoring communication traffic (i.e. telephone calls, post, internet traffic, emails),
-We will give the public a new right to encrypt their private data
-We will introduce a new right to compensation for people affected by government data loss
-new right to apply to a court for compensation where data protection laws have been broken

Freedom of Speech
-we will not allow government censorship of the internet for anything but the most extreme reasons (such as military secrets or images of child abuse).
-new right to pay only for the fraction of the claimed broadband speed that the provider actually delivers
-new legal right to be a whistleblower
a new right for disabled people to demand an unrestricted version of DRM protected content

I think it's high time that a party appears that wants to introduce such interests. Whether they get elected or not in the UK, surely their values will be picked up by others, right? The Pirate Party already holds several seats in the EU Parliament, and will be competing in elections in several other countries this year as well. After reading their plans, are you more willing to vote for them, or more interested in knowing their full policies?

Personally speaking I think it's got to happen. I mean when anti-piracy organizations are vandalizing Wikipedia it's just gotta stop 😕

 

[Watch Me Sink]

-A new right to format shift (for example, buy a CD then copy it to an iPod - which is currently illegal);
-A new right to time shift (record a TV programme for watching later)

Have to change immediately. Technically, the only way to legally put music on an MP3 player is to buy it off Amazon/iTunes/related move it to a MP3 player, and delete the copy from the computer.

Most of those ideas I agree with, especially the right to pay for a fraction of the bandwidth. RoadRunner says that I get 3Mbps, and my max of all time is 600kpbs. Though that would probably drive ISPs out of the UK.