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Re: [News] Pirate Party UK Formed to Reform Copyright Law

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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Friday 14 August 2009 08:36 : \____

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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Phil Da Lick! on Thursday 13 August 2009 09:07 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Pirate Party UK Officially Registered
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>>>> | The UK Pirate Party has been officially registered at the Electoral
>>>> | Commission and is hoping to follow in the footsteps of its successful
>>>> | counterpart in Sweden. With all the recent controversy surrounding
>>>> | anti-piracy legislation and lawyers going after alleged file-sharers,
>>>> | the party has become necessity.
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>>>> http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-uk-officially-registered-090811/
>>>
>>> Well, whilst I applaud the formation of the party I think "pirate party"
>>> is a poor choice of name. Most middle of the road people will just think
>>> they want to swipe everything in sight and stand for anarchy.
>> 
>> I recently learned that it's intentional and rather satirical. It's like the
>> GNU acronym and it's a clever way of warping the daemonisation term.
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> 
> It'll only be clever if it works.

I know. :-) I raised the same question as you last month and got a similar
answer.

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