German Pirate Party

[Nemesis13]

WTH

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-276...y-overtakes-greens-survey-by-forsa-shows.html

 

[Lifted]

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[Lithium381]

and here i came in expecting festivities consisting of germans dressed up like pirates

 

[DrPizza]

Off-shoot of Pastafarianism??

 

[Zebo]

It's interesting to me how different some nations and cultures are about IP. In China they don't even recognize it and you can find "warez" on every street corner. US seems to take a strong even unjust punitive stance towards it with massive statutory fines. Europe seems somewhere in between. I'd like to read the history and cultural anthropology of such differences. Seems strange as murder and most other crimes are just as taboo everywhere. But piracy takes vastly different viewpoints.

 

[davmat787]

It's interesting to me how different some nations and cultures are about IP. In China they don't even recognize it and you can find "warez" on every street corner. US seems to take a strong even unjust punitive stance towards it with massive statutory fines. Europe seems somewhere in between. I'd like to read the history and cultural anthropology of such differences. Seems strange as murder and most other crimes are just as taboo everywhere. But piracy takes vastly different viewpoints.

Maybe there is a correlation between how punitive a society is and the amount of IP it produces? I would wager more money is made in China off of stolen IP than from original IP. Hell, even their defense industry is heavily reliant on stolen IP.

 

[Zebo]

Maybe there is a correlation between how punitive a society is and the amount of IP it produces? I would wager more money is made in China off of stolen IP than from original IP. Hell, even their defense industry is heavily reliant on stolen IP.

That makes sense but Europe is no slouch in IP production and piracy is rampant there with liberal laws as well as applied to piracy. I mean just look this party is #3 most popular indicating big support of piracy.

 

[Broheim]

That makes sense but Europe is no slouch in IP production and piracy is rampant there with liberal laws as well as applied to piracy. I mean just look this party is #3 most popular indicating big support of piracy.

at least here in denmark the pirate party isn't about the right to piracy, but the right to internet privacy and freedom, I'm sure that's what the german party is working for too.

 

[GTaudiophile]

at least here in denmark the pirate party isn't about the right to piracy, but the right to internet privacy and freedom, I'm sure that's what the german party is working for too.

Exactly. According to this, they model themselves after the Swedish Pirate Party.

The Americans and British by contrast have no regard for online privacy.