Debate sobre dois temas defendidos pelo "Partido Pirata" da Suécia:

The Right to Privacy

We are quickly progressing toward a society where every citizen is
electronically monitored 24 hours a day, in case they do something that
is against the will of the politicians.

The latest example of this is the European Union's Data Retention
Directive; our minister of justice, Thomas Bodström, has been one of
its chief proponents. This directive means that the people who handle
your communications will be required by law to track and store
information about the calls you make, when you made them, whom to, and
exactly where from (cellphones); which SMS messages you send and to
whom; the e-mails you send and to whom, et cetera. Only a few weeks
passed after this Directive, before Thomas Bodström introduced yet
another act for increased covert surveillance powers.

For a society to grow, culturally and technologically, its citizens
must be guaranteed the right to a private life. We want to stop, turn
back from, and never go back to the current trend.

We also want each citizen to have complete and exclusive control of
information pertaining to his or her private life; objective
information, such as residential address, and private facts, such as
food habits.

Copyrights And Patents

Copyright has been said to be necessary for the creation of culture,
and patents have been said to be necessary for innovation to happen.
This has been repeated so often, that nobody questions it. We do, and
we say that it's just a myth, perpetuated by those who have something
to gain from preventing new culture and technology.

When push comes to shove, copyright PREVENTS a lot of new culture, and
patents PREVENT a lot of innovation. Above all, today's copyright laws
has no balance at all between the creator's economic interests and
society's cultural interests: it stands to no reason that somebody
needs to be paid for 70 years after their own death.

The Pirate Party wants a right for every citizen to gather, use, derive
from, and distribute any culture, knowledge and public information, as
long as it is for non-commercial use. Patents are counteracting their
original purpose, and need to be abolished completely. Copyrights need
to return to a fair and balanced level, so the creator can have a short
but long enough time of protection - say, five years - to make money
off creative works in commercial environments.

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