Pirate Party UK
The world is changing. The Pirate Party understands that the law needs to change to match the realities of life in the 21st century.
We have 3 core policies:
• Reform copyright and patent law. We want to legalise non-commercial file sharing and reduce the excessive length of copyright protection, while ensuring that when creative works are sold, it's the artists who benefit, not monopoly rights holders. We want a patent system that doesn't stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die.
• End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses.
• Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture.
In recent years we have seen an unprecedented onslaught on the rights of the individual. We are treated like criminals when we share entertainment digitally, even though this is just the modern equivalent of lending a book or a DVD to a friend. We look on helpless as our culture and heritage, so important for binding our society together, is eroded and privatised.
Now there is a democratic alternative. We, the people, can take back our rights. We, the people, can overturn the fat cats and the corrupt MPs who hold our nation's cultural treasures to ransom, ignore our democratic wishes and undermine our civil liberties.
The internet has turned our world into a global village. Ideas can be shared at incredible speed, and at negligible cost. The benefits are plain to see, but as a result, many vested interests are threatened. The old guard works hard to preserve their power and their privilege, so we must work hard for our freedom. The Pirate Party offers an alternative to the last century's struggles between political left and political right. We are open to anyone and everyone who wants to live in a fair and open society.
Following on from the wildfire success of our sister parties in other countries, the Pirate Party UK offers a new way to tackle society's problems, by releasing the potential of ideas, at the expense of corporate monopolies and the interests of a controlling state.
Outdated laws must change, and will change. The only question is when will we change them. Join our cause, and help make this change happen now!
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
It was the leadership who took the website down, not Simon - Visit YourBNP for the proof.
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A party for people who can't offered music.
British By Birth... English By The Grace Of God.
So no skull and crossbones then? How disappointing.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - why do they keep sticking 'UK' on the end of their names?
What next? The English Democrats Party UK?
Plaid Cymru UK?
British National Party UK?
Being honest, the PPUK is increasingly more appealing to me. I care about my privacy on the internet and I use the internet a lot, including downloading stuff like Anime, which isn't released or licensed in the UK.
I absolutely abhor the Digital Economy Bill. It's my right being taken away and I'm being treated as some sort of monsters in their eyes.
Probably because there are many Pirate Parties all around the world which are all part of one central umbrella (see: Pirate Parties International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)Originally Posted by Northumbrian
And before we know it we'll have the Scottish Pirate Party and the Welsh Pirate Party. (Note I don't mention 'English').
>Supports BNP
>Can't spell
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Pointless trolling aside (see I can stereotype people too), it's easy to assume that the party is just about downloading music when it's a lot more than that. Feel free to actually read the website where you'll find plenty of information and discussion as to what the Pirate Party stands for.
Last edited by Sharkz; 22-03-2010 at 08:15 PM.
Welcome to the forum.
It was the leadership who took the website down, not Simon - Visit YourBNP for the proof.
We are Pirate Party UK because there are over forty Pirate Parties registered around the world, it's a worldwide movement. We are able to field parliamentary candidates in England, Scotland and Wales but we are not registered in Northern Ireland yet.
Last edited by Rancidpunk; 22-03-2010 at 08:40 PM. Reason: Spelling mistake
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