Cypherpunk Politics

[rysiek]

Dnia środa, 21 stycznia 2015 11:16:03 Cathal Garvey pisze:
>  > That's one of the reasons ACTA got killed in the EU. Amelia
>  > Andersdotter, among a few others, was doing an amazing job in
>  > the EuroParliament around this topic.
> 
> Indeed, the Pirates are seriously punching above their weight in terms
> of influence in EU. So much so that the other "mainstream" parties have
> started adopting pirate policies to greater/lesser extents; this
> actually lead to a drop in pirate votes, but on balance it's a good sign.

Yup. Admittedly a bit naïvely, but here's something I wrote some time ago:
http://rys.io/en/78
http://rys.io/en/80

> Now, Julia Reda is in charge of the draft proposals for copyright reform
> in the EU. They put a pirate in charge of that. And, she's done broad
> consultations through net and otherwise, she's publicised every visit
> from lobbyists, and she's released an evidence-heavy report with
> recommendations for serious reform; not the hardcore pirate outcome, but
> something no other kind of EU politician would have come out with.

Absolutely. She's already getting some flak from the copyright reform 
maximalists, but I think that even a small positive change in the copyright 
regime in the EU would be a huge step forward. And there is no way we're going 
to make any large changes, not with IFPI, ZAiKS and other "MAFIAA"'s of the 
EU.

> Amelia and Julia are rockstars. I've been waiting and poking for a
> Pirate Party in Ireland to form so I can try and send more quality MEPs
> over to Brussels but we always lag behind on my island. :)

Sadly, the Polish Pirate Party is a joke:
http://rys.io/en/119

So be careful what you wish for.

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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