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Bill: Non-Profit Piracy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leftist Revolutionary Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2479
Description[?]:
| The LRP thinks that piracy that is not used for profit should be legal, for it is unlikely that any government policies will be able to stop the growing popularity of file-sharing networks that contain files that breach copyright laws. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Protection of original works of technology and arts.
Old value:: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Current: Works of technology and art are protected by copyright.
Proposed: Technology and art are part of the commons and are not protected by copyright.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:42:46, October 31, 2007 CET | From |  Ikradonian Interest | To | Debating the Non-Profit Piracy Act |
| Message | So you're saying I can steal stuff and use it in a private environment? You're an idiot if that is the case. Further ii believes the LRP is somewhat naive in the approach with government policies. The primary movement to stop piracy will come from the industry itself offcourse, your motherparty RD would have understood this, most likely refering to capitalist pigdogs. Anyway, modern securitytechniques for digital data, like digital right management or digital watermarking, are currently being standardised and will be broadly used by 2015. |
| Date | 14:32:27, October 31, 2007 CET | From | Yellow Party | To | Debating the Non-Profit Piracy Act |
| Message | Here here. We enjoyed the RD comment as well. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 21 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 278 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all, you live in the heart of the beast." - Che Guevara |