Who we are

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The Pirate Party - In English

Kopie von http://www.piratpartiet.se/English.aspx

Inzwischen existiert eine neue englische Zusammenfassung (deutsche Übersetzung hier im wiki):

Who Are We?

We are a newly formed party aiming to pass the four-percent barrier to entry in this fall's general Swedish parliamentary elections. To do this, we need about 225,000 votes.

Our core values are that the right to privacy must be guaranteed, and that copyright and patents hurt culture and innovation, rather than promoting them.

The Right to Privacy

We are quickly progressing toward a society where every citizen is electronically monitored 24 hours a day, in case they do something that is against the will of the politicians.

The latest example of this is the European Union's Data Retention Directive; our minister of justice, Thomas Bodström, has been one of its chief proponents. This directive means that the people who handle your communications will be required by law to track and store information about the calls you make, when you made them, whom to, and exactly where from (cellphones); which SMS messages you send and to whom; the e-mails you send and to whom, et cetera. Only a few weeks passed after this Directive, before Thomas Bodström introduced yet another act for increased covert surveillance powers.

For a society to grow, culturally and technologically, its citizens must be guaranteed the right to a private life. We want to stop, turn back from, and never go back to the current trend.

We also want each citizen to have complete and exclusive control of information pertaining to his or her private life; objective information, such as residential address, and private facts, such as food habits.

Copyrights And Patents

Copyright has been said to promote culture, and patents have been said to promote innovation. This has been repeated so often, that nobody questions it. We do, and we say that it's just a myth, perpetuated by those who have something to gain from preventing new culture and technology.

When push comes to shove, copyright PREVENTS new culture, and patents PREVENT innovation. The people benefiting from these mechanisms are those who reap economic rewards today from yesterday's culture and innovation.

Copyright is a monopoly on a piece of culture. Patents are monopolies on pieces of knowledge. Like almost any other monopoly, they are good for the monopoly holder, but horrible for the society at large.

The Pirate Party wants a right for every citizen to freely share and build upon culture, knowledge, and public information.

No Other Issues

These two issues are the most important ones to us. In fact, they are so important, that we have chosen to unite on these two issues, and put all our other differences aside.

Therefore, the Pirate Party actively chooses to not hold an opinion on any issue except for these two.