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August 01, 2006

Generation Pirate

The Pirate Party is a political party that originated in Sweden…but this isn’t your parent’s political party.  It’s sole purpose is to reform intellectual property laws and it’s birth is where the real story begins.  It seems the name Pirate Party is a derivative off of the website The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer file sharing site comparable to old school Napster.  The Pirate Bay was doing the Napster dance in Sweden trying to outwit and outsmart the legal system when the United States stepped in and supposedly threatened a WTO blacklisting if Sweden didn’t take care of things.  Enter the Pirate Party, a political organization gaining ground throughout the world and slowly pulling a generation of kids away from their video games.  Usually it’s difficult to catch the attention of kids, especially long enough to start a political movement, but I guess it gets easier when you start to take away their toys. 

Forget Generation X, Y, or whatever they are calling this generation of kids and welcome Generation Pirate.  Generation Pirate is being raised in a climate not of free-love but of free-ware, where everything is at their fingertips and inside the privacy of their homes.  Pirate a song, and there is no remorse.  Copy the song for a friend, and you’re just spreading creativity.  The Music Industry may try “Plan A” and stop kids for now, but eventually Generation Pirate is going to grow up into registered adult voters, and it looks like the Pirate Party is just the first crop.  So what’s Plan B?

Posted by Laura Wood at 11:04 AM.
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