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• Language: English
• Duration: 5m, 43s

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Transcript (English)

Florian Prischl (Interviewer): Here is Florian Prischl, reporting for Wikinews in front of the Ministry for Infrastructure of Austria. Here with me is Rick Falkvinge from the Swedish Pirate Party. Rick, please introduce yourself briefly - state who you are and what you do.
Rickard Falkvinge (Interviewee): I am the founder and the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, which has seen sister parties pop up all over Europe and in fact all over the world. We are now represented on every continent but on Antarctica. And we stand for three very important values: Copyright must be scaled back to not interfere with civil liberties, that patents are immoral and or unnecessary and are in fact killing thousands of people every day and that there is an assault on civil liberties today that must stop that we want to preserve democracy and not walk into a police state blindly.
Florian Prischl: You were speaking about international cooperation between Pirate Parties. Is this why you are here right now?
Rickard Falkvinge: Yes! Yes, we are actually at the first international Pirate conference which is a huge step in itself in taking the Pirate Movement to the next level. We are here because Pirate Parties from Sweden, Austria, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Spain and lots and lots and lots of other places are meeting for the very first time to set the strategy for the European Parliament election in 2009. And of course just to meet each other. I mean, just seeing each other and realizing that this is for real. It gives a kick to the whole movement.
Florian Prischl: So your goal is to get into the European Parliament in 2009?
Rickard Falkvinge: Absolutely!
Florian Prischl: Because you failed in the Swedish Election, is that right?
Rickard Falkvinge: We did not get in! However, failure is putting it quite harshly. I mean, if you look at my personal candidacy, I was ranked number fifteen out of five-thousand-seven-hundred-and-fifty-one. I don't think that's a failure by any means. We didn't get in due to we didn't four per cent but we are still ranked as the tenth largest party out of several hundred, my personal candidacy was ranked as fifteenth. So we are growing! We didn't get in this time, but we are growing.
Florian Prischl: Do you think the demonstration you attended here was a success?
Rickard Falkvinge: Success...I don't know, depends on what criteria you have. I think it was good for people to meet, I think it was good for people to feel that we are standing against some evil force together, good to see each other, good to speak together and just seeing that we can accomplish something. We are not alone.
Florian Prischl: In international terms, "piracy" is still associated with people boarding ships and robbing the seamen. How do you cope with those differences in terminology?
Rickard Falkvinge: Actually it's not so much that any more. I mean, Hollywood and the record industry has been calling people they don't like "pirates" for the last couple of decades and they've actually succeeded in calling more or less every copyright critic a "pirate" in hopes of calling them evil. Only the thing is, they expected us to go sort of underground, put us under a rock, label us "pirates". What they totally did not expect is that we would come out into the open, wearing bright colours, saying "Yes, we are pirates and we are bloody proud of it!".
Florian Prischl: So you are proud of your critique of copyright. What exactly do you criticise, and what should change?
Rickard Falkvinge: What I am criticising is that copyright is a commercial monopoly at heart. You printed books and carried them out to the stores on horse and cart. At that point, copyright was a commercial monopoly. And so you could infractions of this monopoly just by going out to the stores and see a counterfeit book being printed. Today, however, copyright is slowly creeping into private communications. It is illegal for me to send a piece of music in e-mail to you. It is illegal to drop a video clip in a chat channel where we are both active and so if you are to enforce that monopoly, it means that you must watch over and monitor all private communications. So what was a commercial monopoly has become mutually exclusive with very basic civil liberties. If you are to enforce this, out goes the postal secrets, out goes the right to private communications as a concept, out goes the right to contact reporters without being traced and therefore the freedom of the press, out goes the right to talk in private and therefore the very basic right to have an identity. I mean, this is very serious things. And copyright must not, under any circumstance, be allowed to sacrifice basic fundamental democratic values. It's only an old income source for the entertainment industry, for god's sake.
Florian Prischl: How long do you think this will take you? Or how long would you like to take it?
Rickard Falkvinge: I would like to take it a very short time. Unfortunately, in reality, it doesn't work that way. I'm very impatient. We're hoping to get into parliament in Sweden; I'm with the Swedish Pirate Party; and we have a strategy to make Sweden turn almost on a dime the minute we get in. We're hoping to hold a balance of power and basically play "Who wants to be Prime Minister?" with the other parties. So we have some leverage there. And once Sweden turns, I mean this whole scheme is based on the fact that everybody upholds this. The first country to say that "No, the emperor is nude" will actually make, more or less, the whole system collapse. And that's what we are hoping to achieve. First on a Swedish level, and then on a European one.
Florian Prischl: OK, thank you very much for that interview.
Rickard Falkvinge: Thanks

See also

Other files relating to the same demonstration after which this interview was taken:
Image:Demonstration data retention vienna 20070607.jpg
Image:Jolly Roger at Demonstration in Vienna 2007-06-07.jpg
Image:Demonstration data retention at BMVIT 2007-06-07.jpg
Image:Demonstration data retention Florian Hufsky and Rickard Falkvinge 2007-06-07.jpg
Image:Demonstration data retention at BMVIT Florian Hufsky Rickard Falkvinge 2007-06-07.jpg