Comments on: Pirate Party Victory in Sweden

By: David Brodbeck

David Brodbeck — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:57:17 +0000

Hmm. It seems like Student’s post above could be summarized as, “it’s OK if it becomes harder to make money off writing, because it was already pretty hard.” I don’t think that’s really a justification for anything.

By: Student

Student — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:05:19 +0000

Well, I would recommend reading up on what they actually want to do. It's far more interesting than "lets make downloading free for everyone". As an author you probably shouldn't worry too much. It's very rare for authors to be able to live on what they write. The pirate party is not likely to change that (other than perhaps making more people read your books). Oh, you forgot to link to them ;) http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:45:10 +0000

This reminds me of the quote about how democracies cannot exist as permanent governments because the public eventually figures out that they can transfer money from the treasury to their own pockets by means of a vote.