Rick Falkvinge, pirate

Countries, continued, Denmark

Founded at about same time as the Finnish PP.

Very small – about ten members.

Blackout in media; you don’t hear anything about any PP in Danish media. Almost all media is owned by copyright fundamentalists.

TPB censoring in progress in courtrooms; one of the parties in the court case is actually one of the major media owners, who only report their side of the case.

In these blocking and censoring court cases, there’s no real interest in preventing the block, because as the cases are brought against ISPs, there is nobody speaking for freedom of communication between the user and the blocked party. Therefore, those who sue – the enemies of the Internet, the record and film industries — basically always win.

In Denmark today, you can go to jail for six years for a copyright violation. The laws are going to be ”harmonized”, so you can get six years of prison for a patent violation (which is absolutely insane).

More Internet censorship laws are coming.