p2pnet.net news:- It’s wrong to brand an entire generation as criminals, says Trine Skei Grande (right), vice-chair of Norway’s Liberal Party.

Quoted by Out-Law.com, and with her words ringing loudly in reference to the Big 4 music cartel’s sue ‘em all marketing plan, the Venstre, or Liberal Party, became the first mainstream European political party to back p2p file sharing.

“The Liberal Party Congress states that today’s legal frameworks for copyrights are not adapted to a modern society,” said a party resolution. “Copyright law is outdated. A society where culture and knowledge is free and accessible by everyone on equal terms is a common good. Large distributors and copyright owners systematically and widely misuse copyright, and thereby stall artistic development and innovation. Therefore, the Liberal Party wants to reinstate the balance in copyright law.”

Laws should only limit file-sharing in order to limit their use to only personal use, and to ban commercial distribution without payment to copyright holders, the story has the Liberal Part saying.

It also, “called for a relaxation on the laws of sampling copyrighted material, a reduction in the life of copyright and a ban on digital rights management technology,” says Out-Law.com.

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Also See:
Out-Law.com - Mainstream political party condones file-sharing, April 16, 2007

If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at thIs the endSurvey: How Did Copyright Infringement Become Equated with Robbery? (of the Net) nigh?zze University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.

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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!

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