Comments on: UN's copyright agency won't let the Pirate Party in

By: Nick Ashton-Hart

Nick Ashton-Hart — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:56:00 +0000

They aren’t a political party – it is the Secretariat of the party. There’s no doubt in my mind, from attending the GA, that the objections were entirely related to the positions of the Pirate Party, and nothing else. It is a very troubling development.

By: TokenFrenchDude

TokenFrenchDude — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:02:00 +0000

France ? Hey I’ve never said anything of the sort :(

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:50:00 +0000

You are allowed to play, if i am always the winner.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Political action? We can’t have that, Dude. That fucks up our plan.

By: Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:14:00 +0000

Technically PPI is not a political party – it does not send its representatives to ‘the world government’ or something. But it is an association of political parties.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Only parties that won’t take political action are welcome. For example, American ones.

By: Tim Adriaansen

Tim Adriaansen — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:07:00 +0000

And nobody thinks that there is perhaps an element of reasonability in rejecting a political party under the heading of Non-Government Organisation? Would you be happy to see representatives of the Democratic Party International admitted to the NGO benches?

By: jorgenfleisterman

jorgenfleisterman — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:34:00 +0000

“‘One delegate said European countries were concerned that the Pirate Parties would take ‘political action’ back home when they disagreed with positions taken by the official delegates at the WIPO meetings’”

So if you reject their admission as observers, they’re just going to say, “Oh, okay. No…that’s cool. We understand.” instead of taking “‘political action’ back home when they disagreed with” the decision not to even admit them as observers? That makes sense.

By: hypocrite

hypocrite — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:10:00 +0000

1 word summary: hypocrites