Political impact Pirate Party of Sweden

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1 political impact

1.1 national
1.2 international
1.3 free software





political impact
national

less week before 2006 elections, green party shifted stance on copyright reform. additionally, both moderate party , left party changed stances on internet downloads, , both prime ministerial candidates stated publicly shouldn t illegal young people share files. several influential analysts have credited pirate party , rising popularity shift in political climate; these include panel of senior editors @ international data group , political analysts @ largest morning newspaper, dagens nyheter. additionally, swedish minister of justice thomas bodström, announced on 9 june willing negotiate possible revision of law introduced in 2005 made unauthorised downloading of copyrighted material illegal, introducing new tax on broadband internet access, later denied having changed stance on issue.


after 2006 elections, issue faded public debate. in january 2008, 7 swedish members of parliament conservative moderate party, senior member of governing alliance coalition, authored piece in swedish tabloid calling complete decriminalisation of filesharing. swedish members of parliament wrote decriminalising non-commercial file sharing , forcing market adapt not best solution. s solution, unless want ever more extensive control of citizens on internet.


international









outside sweden, pirate parties have been started in 33 countries, inspired swedish initiative. cooperate through pirate parties international (ppi).


the pirate party of germany gained seats in city council of münster , aachen in august 2009, , in federal election month later received 2.0% of party list votes, becoming biggest party outside bundestag. in election abgeordnetenhaus in berlin in september 2011, pirate party received 9% of votes , - first time in germany - gained seats in state parliament.


free software

richard stallman has expressed concern pirate party’s goal of reducing copyright term 5 years harm free software movement. many free software licenses, gpl, based on long-term copyrights. stallman argues if copyright terms reduced 5 years, proprietary software vendors able take free software , use in proprietary software once copyright expires. proprietary software restricted eulas in addition copyright, , source code not available, rendering proprietary software unusable free software developers after copyright expires. stallman suggests under new copyright law, proprietary software developers should put code in escrow when software s binaries released , release software public domain after copyright expires.








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