Christian Engström
christianengstrom.wordpress.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Christian Engström, a Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament, blogs about copyright reform, surveillance, censorship and transparency in the EU.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for the Pirate Party's positions on copyright reform, pharmaceutical patents and file sharing studies.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Pirate Party on Copyright Reform (2010)3 people · 81 points · first shared 2013 · 40 comments on HN
- 2IFPI’s child porn strategy3 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 3European Parliament censors citizens trying to contact MEPs2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 4Epic win for transparency on ACTA1 people · 76 points · first shared 2010 · 20 comments on HN
- 5ACTA negotiators inform the EU Parliament in secret (from Pirate MEP)1 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6Let’s write an Internet Bill of Rights1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 7Current Internet issues in the European Parliament1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Counterfeiting and file sharing are different things1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9Influence EU to not accept the proposed copyright reform1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10EU parliament wants to store all Internet searches1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11Studies on the cultural sector in the file sharing era1 people · first shared 2014
- 12European parliament blocks emails containing the word gender on internationa womens day1 people · first shared 2013
- 13The swedish pirate party delivers bandwidth to the pirate bay1 people · first shared 2010
- 14An alternative to pharmaceutical patents1 people · first shared 2011
What HN people wrote when they linked it
muuh-gnu · 2011-09-19
> The issue was that under the pretense of fighting child pornography the government wanted/wants to install a system
The Christian-led goverment party didn't even pretend that hard what the envisioned "Zensurinfrastruktur" will be later mainly used for and on several occasions mentioned "child pornography, copyright infringement and other crimes" in one and the same sentence.
This was exactly how the copyright lobby envisioned the strategy, linking child porn and copying.
”Child pornography is great,” the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites”.
* http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-str…
> No magic switch needs to be given to the police.
But it is absolutely necessary to be able to block "outsourced" overseas torrent sites.
foobar_ · 2020-07-14
I believe in reform. 1 year exclusive copyright / patent at most and author always holds the copyright. Its ironic that the movie with the biggest budget is a pirate movie ;)
https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-copyright-…
zz1 · 2014-06-01
Also, on the same topic: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/studies-on-the-cultu…
subsystem · 2013-11-27
There's more than a semantic difference between moral and material interests. In fact most "internet hippies" I know wants strong moral protection for authors [0][1]. It's a fairly central concept in the copyright debate, not least since it's part of the universal declaration of human rights.
[0] http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-copyright-r…
[1] http://the1709blog.blogspot.se/2012/05/pirate-party-plans-for-copyrigh…
[2] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/400/60/PDF/G0640060.pdf
Peaker · 2013-11-10
About pharma patents, I think many have been misled, as this explanation from the Pirate Party seems very credible:
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/an-alternative-to-ph…
cpa · 2013-06-14
I'm not sure it's a good thing to do. Because this can happen: https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/european-parliament…
cpach · 2010-05-18
Here's an English translation on MEP Christian Engström's blog: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/the-swedish-pirate-p…