Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing

dot-magnon writes "The Liberal Party of Norway (Venstre) passed a unanimous resolution that advocates legal file sharing. The party wants to legalise sharing of any copyrighted material for non-commercial use. It also proposes a ban on DRM technology, free sampling of other artists' material, and shortening the life span of copyright. The Liberal Party is the first Norwegian political party, and the first European mainstream political party, to advocate file sharing. The Liberal Party's youth wing proposed the resolution."

Get ready

[tehwebguy]

WTO complaint in 3..

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Terrorist State

[Anonymous Coward]

How long before Norway is declared a terrorist state?

Re:Software?

[3vi1]

Damn... When I started to read your post, I thought for sure it was going to say: "If DRM is outlawed, only outlaws will have DRM".

Re:What?

[Wizard Drongo]

Careful now. That sounds like Un-American terrorist talk! Just because you're not American, and have never been there doesn't mean you can't get dragged off to Gitmo' with your Govt's absolute and total blessing. Ask my country's Gary McKinnon if you fail to believe this.

Re:What?

[corbettw]

A big part of the Swedish movie industry is funded by the government.

That explains why the Swedish movie industry, instead of the evil capitalist studio system in Hollywood, USA, dominates the global market for movies.

Re:Terrorist State

[DogBotherer]

There's certainly enough oil there to make the invasion worthwhile! :-)

Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Leave the kid alone, he's in his "Everything American sucks" phase, and so isn't capable of making rational statements about such matters. Most college/university students go through it, regardless of nationality or location.

He'll outgrow it, eventually.

Re:Software?

[Johnny Doughnuts]

I've also heard there may be some DRM in OS X to prevent hackers from running Mac OS X on a generic PC -- but I'm not clued in on that area sufficiently to make a positive assertion of that.

Yet I'm making this reply from my Athlon 64 x2 - running OS X 10.4.8.

Re:What?

[Vintermann]

"If someone taught you a tune to play on a musical instrument, you would probably teach it to someone else. Doing that is not, and has never been illegal."

There's a representative from the Ankh-Morpork guild of musicians here, he wants to talk to your kneecaps.