Libertà è non perdere di vista i propri diritti, e non accettare di vederli depauperati.
Libertà è conoscere i propri diritti, e quanto li minaccia.
Libertà è ricordarsi di difendere i propri diritti, in ogni situazione
Freedom is not to lose sight of their own rights and not accept to see them depleted.
Freedom is knowing their rights, and what threatens them.
Freedom is to remember to defend their rights in every situation
Punto Informatico Italy del 5 mnovembre 2009
Debuting on December 1, will enter into force a treaty created primarily to streamline the working methods and rules of voting in the EU. The number of seats will increase from 736 to 754, giving parties like the Swedish pirates the opportunity to add a place in the European Parliament. And Piratpartiet has already designated its companion, one that surely will be the youngest Member of the Old Continent.
Her name is Amelia Andersdotter, 22, ready to get to Brussels Christian Engstrom, who was elected last June after the exploits of the first political party devoted to the defense of the free movement of culture online. Andersdotter decided to devote himself full time to parliamentary activity, leaving his studies in economics and Spanish at Lund University in Sweden. "The European Parliament need direction to a sustainable economy of knowledge - has commented on the neo-parliamentary - and here I'll have to come into play."
http://www.ameliatillbryssel.se/english
My name is Amelia Andersdotter and I am 21 years old. I study Economics and Spanish at Lund University in southern Sweden. I am one of the top candidates in the 2009 European Parliament elections for Piratpartiet (the Swedish Pirate Party).
My political ambitions include a thorough revision and change of the copyright legislation, a complete removal of the patent system and a more balanced approach to security, safety and the market versus privacy, where the latter in particular needs to be taken much more into consideration. I believe in strong civil rights, even in a digital environment.
I have been working toward this end for some three years, beginning in the spring of 2006. During that period of time I have managed to take an active part in the development of Ung Pirat, the political youth organisation associated with Piratpartiet. I have also taken an active role in the development of the party's European political programme and the co-operation between Pirate Parties and Young Pirates organisations in Europe and around the world.
For any questions or comments, send email to
amelia.andersdotter@piratpartiet.se.
You can also call me at +46 73 8436779, but please note that I'm in
GMT+2.
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Rick Falkvinge
Rickard "Rick" Falkvinge (
Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfalkˈviŋe]), born
Dick Augustsson on
21 January 1972 in
Gothenburg, is a
Swedish IT entrepreneur known as the leader and founder of the Swedish
Pirate Party.
Falkvinge graduated from
Göteborgs Högre Samskola where he studied
natural science in 1991. During his studies he was active in the
Moderate Youth League (
Swedish:
Moderata Ungdomsförbundet), the youth wing of the Swedish
Moderate Party.
He started his first company in 1988 at the age of 16.
In 1993 he began studies for a degree in
Engineering Physics at the
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He dropped out 1995 to work as an entrepreneur.
Falkvinge has previously worked as a project leader at
Microsoft. He was manager of development at a smaller software company but resigned to work with the
Pirate Party on a full time basis. The Danish documentary
Good Copy Bad Copy includes segments of an interview with Falkvinge explaining the emergence of the
Pirate Party in response to the May 2006 police raid on
The Pirate Bay. (The Pirate Bay is not formally affiliated with Pirate Party.)
He currently resides in
Sollentuna north of
Stockholm.
From Wikipedia
Piratpartiet (the Swedish Pirate Party): the European program
From the founder and first leader of the Pirate Party in circulation, one Swedish, one would expect an assault and all'establishment to copyright holders' rights with the proverbial knife between his teeth. Yet, listening and watching Rick Falkvinge during one of his first public appearance after the election to the European seat, one gets the impression of being in the presence of a good speaker and a polished politician, that makes some sensible proposals, shareable , appreciated. But, pausing to reflect for a moment, they are potentially disruptive in a context like the EU where they are questioning the Telecoms Package and the doctrine Sarkozy.
Of course, the occasion in which the discourse takes Falkvinge certainly helps: The first congress of the newly formed Association Digital Agora, held in Salerno on the sidelines of a week's work of the Radical Party, and its leaders in the party whose Marco Cappato, a leader is found founders and early supporters. An audience well disposed to listen and gather suggestions, borrow the experience of the Pirate Party in Sweden, which in the last election has made the satisfaction of becoming the third political force in the country, super organized on the square for many years and is coupled with a By far the most comprehensive and theoretically grounded than that of the followers of the buccaneers.
Falkvinge, however, is not one to hide behind a finger candidly admits that without the story The Pirate Bay, without the raid of 2006 and the trial of 2009, perhaps his party would not be where he is now. But at the same time, it is ready to reclaim his seat in the European Parliament with proposals (concrete or not we'll see) that obviously relate to the hot issues of his campaign and that are very dear to the inhabitants of the Net: anonymity, copyright, fair compensation and, last but not least, ACTA.
The leader of the Pirate Party, as mentioned, is a good speaker: he expresses himself with calm and rattles off facts and dates, carefully builds his argument. Remember the birth of Copyright in 1557, the United Kingdom, and the historical reasons that led the church hierarchy to want this measure of control over the new medium of knowledge recalls what happened in the '60s and '70s with the first pirate radio that extra-territorial waters broke the "monopoly", as he calls it, the government on this form, quoting the claims of the TV commercial revolution of the '80s, in Sweden and how long the satellite decoders have been outlawed due the delay with which the state has taken steps to reform the laws on the matter.
All to get to a point: copyright, copyright law, the interests of the major disk and celluloid, according Falkvinge are merely a pretext for governments around the world have taken to putting groped under control new primary tool for disseminating information. Internet: which is anonymous, which is democratic and uncontrollable, where everyone can have their opinion and where anyone can verify the facts, data, events, refute false reconstructions and Lies election.
After the sinking, Falkvinge dissolves aggression: his Pirate Party, and could not be otherwise, that contributes to parliamentary office, not the last subversive anarchist organization. Rather, "the new generation of civil rights groups" means a horizontal structure that attempts to meet the new needs of those citizens also online, bringing the network all of your rights and unquestionable that everyone already enjoys in the West when speaks of "real life".
"Western governments criticized China for censorship on the Internet - is pressing the Swedish leader - now emulate the Chinese government, in silence increases interceptions, including international, and in tandem increases the data retention in Germany, half of the citizens ceased to call psychologists and other support services for fear that the government can keep track of these calls. " We need to take countermeasures immediately - obviously named encryption, anonymization of any kind (other concepts already supported in the past in Italy by other associations) - but there are other initiatives that are undertaken for groped to cope with a system draconian control of citizens.
"Governments think - adds - that the Internet is a game to remove a child when it was bad: do not believe that the Internet is something real, tangible. Different rules are applied to the web and, in some ways second Falkvinge, incomprehensible: the post shall be inviolable if sent with envelope and stamp, but easily intercepted if it is composed of bits. Public libraries lend securities covered by copyright without charge for 150 years: the same must be done, for private use, online. The intermediaries are not responsible for the transport: since the Roman Empire, "an ambassador is not the messenger," and that must be valid offline (where couriers and post offices are not responsible for what is being sent) as online.
The Pirate Party, starting today with the first sessions of the new European Parliament, will try to bring these issues to the attention of the political agenda: Criminal liability for infringement of copyright if done for commercial purposes (according Falkvinge, the legalization of file sharing for individuals); limit of five years duration of copyright; recognition of the right remix, mashup, and reuse of creative content, recognition of authorship of works, to avoid plagiarism. Finally, revisiting the principle of fair compensation and contrast the so-called broadband tax: Who would be compensated for the traffic generated online joke Falkvinge, holders of rights on music and movies, or producers of pornographic material that has long produced revenues in Network ?
The intervention of Falkvinge closes with a diplomatic answer to the free software guru Richard Stallman, who had challenged the hypothesis of a limitation to five years of copyright free pieces of code, fearing that they could end up in proprietary software . Falkvinge liquidate the hypothesis of a state archive of source code, and places emphasis on the discourse competitiveness: "If a closed source software needs to integrate pieces of free software older than five years, exceeding in this way, its free counterpart there would still be a problem. " And then, of political experience, thanks Stallman and invites him to continue his work which is so important for the community.
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Rome - The release today of Cassandra Crossing has a dedication is dedicated to all those who, while using the Net (since you're reading) still do not realize it at the European Parliament that the Italian Parliament is in direct discussion and projects Law aimed at transforming the Web as we know it into something very different.
It is likely that when you read these lines one of these stones, Amendment 138 of the Telecom Package has already been approved (it was approved a compromise between Council and Parliament, ed), with a text more or less strong but which enshrine the principle that connect to the web is a natural right, but that is just as "natural" that someone can provide the pain of disconnection forced. As if he felt the need for the enshrinement in law that the natural right to breathe, never questioned before, used as a passkey to establish the death penalty by hanging.
And while this thing materializes between the general indifference of those who "have heard of it", others are clubbed in a row. The "Net neutrality" will soon be abolished, allowing anyone to provide connectivity to decide which communications can pass through the Net and how quickly. Is not a technical detail for experts, but rather a blatant form of censorship against all the People of the Net
Who is not outraged should be clear that is exactly the same situation that would arise if the phone providers such as Telecom or Vodafone reserves the right to terminate conversations on subjects of their unwelcome. More so we can not say.
How many others are convinced that these laws abnormal, which are growing in all Western legal systems, are poisoned fruit of a tree ill.
The disease of this tree has a name, for now not very pronounced, and that name is ACTA: a multilateral treaty whose approval is only a matter of time, which many have not even heard of, or that they think something far away that does not concern them .
The disease has a precise cause, and the struggle to free movement of culture that the lobby of those who create rents parasitic intermediate between producers and consumers of culture is willing to defend at all costs, even subverting the Network and the Western legal systems.
The disease has its plague-spreaders, which vary in name depending on the context and the nation, and are easily recognizable paternalistic attitude and / or offended when promoting these initiatives, and the fact that carefully avoids the subject of evolution culture.
The disease can spread because in most of the inhabitants of the Net now missing the antibodies that trigger immune reactions against those who want to eliminate natural freedoms and replacing them with profits, oppression and control.
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