Comments on: Pirate Party of America

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:09:05 +0000

This is absurd. You are assuming that every artist, musician and other creator is already famous and making a living off of their work. Songwriters would cease to exist, such as the likes of Willie Nelson. Do you know how many songs he wrote for others, trying to get famous? Do you know how long it took from writing them to getting them adopted by the great singers of that time? Well more than 5 years in many cases. Big record companies would just tell their musicians to wait until the poor writers rights were up and then make the song famous 5 years later with no pay to the creator. Pirate is EXACTLY the right word for your idea. A few of you will profit, most citizens will lose and in the end, a big corporate giant will win.

By: Ibod Catooga

Ibod Catooga — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:31:39 +0000

Haha we should call this the Butt Pirate Party!

Butt Pirates!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:03:19 +0000

I simply LOVE the name. Names like consumer protection party and such I don’t take seriously…or even like. Cool names are cool if the names simply imply what they do then its all boring. With that in mind would you want a “Mustang” or a “Gets you from point A to B Fast” car.

I am taking them seriiously Not only because of the name but also I too am feed up with draconian copy-right laws.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:11:55 +0000

for a buck… and then some!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:20:21 +0000

Fluff

Why should copyright holders be given protection for their creation for life plus ?
Their end effort produces a product of no value.

Drug companies spend years developing a drug that saves or improves life, yet are protected for only twenty years
Farmers spend millions and get payed at rates that their grandfathers were payed.
The man who repairs your car does not get payed each time the car starts after a repair.
The plumber does not get payed each time you flush after a repair.
When Girl scouts sell you a cookie it,s yours.
When you buy a car, the manufacture does not have the right to tell you how to drive it.

If no music was played from this day on:
People would not die from its loss
There would be food to eat
there would be cloths to ware
there would be water to drink
there would be homes to live in
there would be cars to drive
there would be air to breath
there would be planes to fly
Life would change very little if at all, music is nothing more then fluff, how it’s become a top priority
for the government is beyond me.
The fluff salesman has done their job well i guess.
The rape of the cosumers in this country by copyright holders needs to stop.
RETURN copyright to default, as the founding fathers had it.
The current copyright laws, pure sewage, the copyright holder as it stands now contribute nothing to the common good of this country, which in turn make them a parasite.
RIAA is a sham. It represents German, Japanese, English and Canadian
interests, and approximately 3% of American interests.
The corporate whores in washington have sold out the American people for a buck!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:40:54 +0000

An anti-plagiarism law would be better for that than copyright.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:53:18 +0000

Seems that way as of 08 Jun 2006.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:51:58 +0000

I think copyrights held by the *actual artists / authors * of a work should be held as long as that author wants to hold them .. that is, no one should be able to use that work / claim any part of it as their own work and not give due credit.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:52:18 +0000

Or the consumer protection party… but wait! isn’t Ralph Nader already on this agenda?? Strange we never hear of him…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:48:21 +0000

Is it just me, or is their site unbuilt as of yet?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:28:55 +0000

Damn straight! Last thing anyone wants is to end up at the wrong party meeting, especially if you’ve just bought a brand new fake parrot!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:43:02 +0000

In the parliamentary system, a party who gets 5% of the votes statewide gets 5% representation in parliament. But the US system is winner-take-all in individual races, with the losing party getting nothing – which is why only 2 viable parties have ever existed in US politics.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:49:37 +0000

Is so that if, on the off chance, you create something fifty years from now that borrows from their copyrighted work, they can sue you.

They look at copyrighted work as a simple “asset” not necessarily an “income producing asset”, so it doesn’t have to be producing money for them, so long as they completely control it.

You know the deal with Happy Birthday being copyrighted and how you have to pay royalties if you use it in a movie? That’s a perfect example of the world they are trying to create.

Essentially, it’s patent trolling, but for longer and using our cultural heritage instead of a functional invention.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:32:41 +0000

copyright should be for a set time OR until a certain $ value is reached….If it is truly ment to benifiet society as the *AA’s and pupet politicians proclaim.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:17:59 +0000

Damn straight. Pirate Party is a TERRIBLE name. Maybe they should take a cue from the US guv and call it the Copyright Owner Protection Party.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:16:37 +0000

Everything is fine other than the name. If we want to be taken seriously than there needs to be a name not containing PIRATE in it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:23:48 +0000

If the commercial life of cultural works is so staggeringly short in today’s world then why are the media companys pushing so hard to extend copyright? Percentage wise not many of the products the media companys release stand the test of time, but the works that do are sources of HUGE profits. A couple years ago I saw copies of a “collectors edition” of “Gone With The Wind” selling for NINETY DOLLARS US. This is a 70 year old movie. What is the 40 year old Beatles catalog worth each year? I agree with the positions of the Pirate Party (BAD NAME!!!) for the most part. I just don’t want people to underestimate the monitary and cultural value of “back catalog” media holdings.