A stirring call to political action to address copyright and other civil liberties issues. Full On the Pirate Party Keynote notes after the break.

• 2006 website set up
• problem was channeling interest
• 3 million hits in a few days
• breakthrough may 31, 2006 when pirate bay raided
• first election september 13, 2006, .63% of the vote
• largest party for under 30s
• goal to get noticed - current copy right is a major threat to civil liberties
• all of this has happened before :-), BSG reference!
• catholic church attacked technology of printing press not the writers
• printing press was banned in 1535 in france
• origin of copyright is repressive censorship legislation meant to stifle dissent
• copyright being defended as being "property"
• copyright = gov sanctioned monopoly on duplication & public performance
• return copyright to cover commercial use only
• encourage all non commercial collection, use, derivation, spread of our knowledge & culture
• we are not just listeners or users, we are participants, we take part and are part in a way that's never been possible before
• infrastructure for this vision is built
• all we need to do is remove the political ban to using the tech
• being for or against file sharing is liking being for or against organic carbon compounds i.e. file sharing will exist no matter what we do, but you can do a lot of damage to open society by trying to stop it
• 8 gb on nokia or android phone is the amount of storage on hard drives during napster era, first apps on android will be easy file sharing over bluetooth or wifi
• pirate party == next generation civil liberties movement
• i.e. catholic church all over again
• platform:
  • right to privacy
  • government transparency and accountability
  • strengthen due process
  • reduce copyright (cover commercial use, reduce length e.g. 5 years from date of publication)
  • abolish patents (especially software)
  • information politics affects everything e.g. eco friendly manufacturing