Pirat-Partiet, What is that????????

"So we're aiming for 4%. How can people with only 4% of the seats have any influence? How can you contain your laughter looking at 15 or 16 people out of 350 who claim to be pirates? Well, it turns out that there are two blocks in Swedish parliament who always come very tied. So we aim to be a wedge in between them. That means both of these blocks will need our support to form a majority government. That means we get to sit down and play who-wants-to-be-prime-minister. And whoever wants to be the prime minister the most, will need to give us the best offer in terms of intellectual property reform. Then we will go along in whatever they want in everything else, and we'll have a reform.

Why Sweden then? Why would anybody care about a frozen country of the size of a shoebox around the European Arctic Circle? Well, it happens to be a perfect place to trigger a global intellectual property reform. First of all, the copyright laws in Europe are at the state level. There are no laws at the federal level in Europe. That means Sweden is at liberty to change its laws, as long as it can justify doing so. Second, if you look at how the global production is divided between the three major economic centers, out of the 60 trillion dollars GDP in global production the U.S. Has 12 trillion, Europe has 12 trillion, and China has 10 trillion. That means that the U.S. Copyright lobby can not threaten trade sanctions against Europe – because the two parties are equally strong. This is not the case like if this would originate in South America, which is not as strong.

So I'm going to argue that the best way to initiate a copyright reform in U.S. Is actually to take the Scenic Route through Europe. Because the first country that says “No, we actually don't think that this is good” is going to set off a chain of events that will force a global change in this age of the Internet.


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Rick Falkvinge
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