1. Copyright Industries
vs. Civil Liberties
Rick Falkvinge
Piratpartiet
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2. Image: shelter
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3. Image: windmill
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4. Presentation
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6. Pirate Party Quick Facts
Created in 2006 in Sweden
7.1% in European Elections – two seats in EP
Largest party for first-time voters
Active in 40+ other countries – including here
Civil Liberties movement
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7. Civil Liberties movement
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8. Civil Liberties movement
Transparency of government
Privacy for the citizen
Secrecy of communications
Freedoms of expression, opinion
Freedom to create
Freedom to invent
Same laws should apply online and offline
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9. Historically
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11. Previous Distribution Games
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12. All of this has happened before.
All of this will happen again.
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14. 1453
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16. Catholic Church
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17. 1535
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19. United Kingdom
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20. Queen Mary I
a.k.a. Bloody Mary
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21. May 4, 1557
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22. copyright
ITC 2009

23. 1849
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24. Libraries
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25. Outlaw!
1849, public libraries
1905, player piano
1930, broadcast radio
1950s, tape recorder
1960s, photocopier
1970s, cassette recorder
1980s, video cassette recorder
1997, MP3 player
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26. Who are Piratpartiet, politically?
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27. same laws
online as offline
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28. postal secret
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29. postal anonymity
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30. messenger immunity
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31. freedom to communicate
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32. right to privacy
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33. File sharing will never stop
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34. Open platform
mobile devices
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35. Killing the internet and
mobile entrepreneurship
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36. Killing YOUR mobile
distribution game
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37. Example with Dutch verdict
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38. politically
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39. Politically
● Postal secret
● Anonymity
● Messenger immunity
● Freedom to communicate
● Right to privacy
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40. Fundamental civil liberties
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41. Entrepreneurship
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42. Functioning market
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43. Metro
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44. Volvic, Evian
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45. Entrepreneur Climate
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46. dinosaurs
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47. need to die
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48. This is now a POLITICAL
battle, not a market battle
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49. What you can do to help your
business climate
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50. Vote pirate in two days
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51. Turn the ears of the politicians
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52. Global impact
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53. Shelters or windmills?
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54. Image: shelter
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55. Image: windmill
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56. “In winds of change, some people
build shelters, and other people
build windmills.”
Chinese proverb
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57. Build the Future.
Build windmills.
Rick Falkvinge (Pirate Party SE)
rick.falkvinge@piratpartiet.se
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