2010 Election Manifesto Unveiled by Pirate Party
Submitted by Medha Sood on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 15:06
It calls for a revamp in copyright law and customer privacy online.
The Swedish branch of the Pirate party won two seats in last year's EU elections.
Its UK manifesto disputes that copyright law has become "biased" as a consequence of money and pressure from lobbying groups.
The party's manifesto affirms, "Currently copyright carries on for more than 70 years after the author of a work dies. We believe… 10 years of copyright protection is long enough".
It also says that shorter copyright will motivate artists to continue producing new work and will also impede huge businesses from continuously reselling content we have already paid for.
The party is also summoning for a descriptive warning label to be put on any products including DRM, to inform the public on the "defects" innate in the products.
These comprise area coding, or products, which can be remotely turned off by the company, or must "phone home" and would therefore stop working if the maker went broke.
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