[PP-discussions] Fwd: [pp.int.general] FYI - PP-CZ - press release: Criminal case against Czech Pirate Party for running a non-commercial website with hyperlinks

[anne-marie victor]

Pas trop le temps d'analyser. Mais je transmets: poursuites contre le PP
tchèque.


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From: Mikuláš Peksa <mikulas.peksa at pirati.cz>
Date: 2016-01-22 0:50 GMT+01:00
Subject: [pp.int.general] FYI - PP-CZ - press release: Criminal case
against Czech Pirate Party for running a non-commercial website with
hyperlinks
To: pp-leaders.discussion at lists.pp-international.net,
pp-eu at lists.pp-international.net, Pirate Parties International -- General
Talk <pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>, REDA Julia OFFICE <
julia.reda-office at europarl.europa.eu>, contact at piratetimes.net,
info at pirati.cz


Please share:



https://www.pirati.cz/zo/tz_sledujuserialyen





*Criminal case against Czech Pirate Party for running a non-commercial
website with hyperlinks*



Pirates insist that linking is not a crime - we do not want Chinese
internet in the Czech Republic.





A landmark political trial for Czech Internet is about to take place! On
Tuesday 21st January, Czech pirate party was officially notified that it
will be prosecuted in criminal court. The reason is their long-term
political campaign „Linking is not a crime“ in which the party ran a
non-commerical website „sledujuserialy.cz“ [which translates as I watch TV
series] highlighting an absurd interpretation of copyright monopoly law
with regard to the Internet.



Czech police launched investigation due to complaint from Czech Anti-Pirate
Union (ČPU, Česká protipirátská unie) which represents interests of
entertianment industry in the Czech republic and so far filed criminal
complaints only against students.



„Pirates welcome the criminal case. Until now, Czech Anti-Pirate Union
targeted only randomly chosen individuals with its bullying. The victims
were in unfair position as they faced expensive lawyers of lobby
organisations which push current repressive copyright monopoly regime. This
time it's different. Instead of teenagers, copyright industry lobbyists now
deal with political party which didn't run the website for money but
because of our conviction that linking is not and should not be a crime,“
said Lukáš Černohorský, chairman of Pirates.



„Our goal is to change the copyright monopoly law so that people are not
fined millions for sharing culture with their friends. However, until we
achieve that, we will fight in courts over intepretation and enforcement of
the law. Therefore we have decided to run a linking web ourselves so that
Anti-Pirate Union and other lobbyists can no longer brandish precedents
they've won against high school students who couldn't even afford a lawyer.
The Internet is too important to leave to organisations such as ČPU,“
concludes Černohorský.



Under the same standard that police used against Pirate party, servers like
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube would also have to face prosecution in
upcoming days. Unlike linking websites, not only they copy the videos but
they also make profit from sharing and playing them.



In the next few days, Pirate Party is going to call on the general public,
organisations and individuals who care about freedom of the Internet and
organise a massive demonstration in support of Free Internet in the Czech
republic. This criminal prosecution is not the only reason, several
ministers have also repeatedly made proposals for censorship and
surveillance of the Internet



If we concede even partially that any single link on the Internet is a
crime, we would simultaneously forfeit the last existing space for free
expression, denying the core function of the Internet.

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Pirate Parties International - General Talk
pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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