While it is easy to dismiss as a conspiracy, there are a number of ‘copyright industries’ which have a vested interest in curtailing certain freedoms, none more so than the music industry. The Pirate Party suggests that intellectual property is being used to: crack down on file sharing which limits the ability to share knowledge and information increase the terms and length of copyright to raise profits and build code into music files which limits their ability to be shared (Pirate Party, 2009). They believe the internet, together with intellectual property laws, are being used by the state and big business to limit freedom around the globe. For the Pirate Party it is a fear that is fast becoming a reality. He writes in The Future as Nightmare that these works “describe nightmare states where men are conditioned to obedience, freedom is eliminated, and individuality crushed…where science and technology are employed, not to enrich human life, but to maintain the state’s surveillance and control of its slave citizens” (Hilegas, 1967, pp.
Mark Hillegas believes the theme in some of modern literature’s great works – Zamyatin’s We, Huxley’s Brave New World, and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – demonstrates a growing fear that science and technology could be used to limit freedom (Hilegas, 1967, pp. In particular, the future for record companies in an environment that increasingly demands flexibility, and whether the Pirate Party’s proposal is a viable solution to the music industry’s problems. The essay will then examine the central issues raised by illegal file sharing. Its relationship with file sharing is topical and makes an excellent case study to address the impact big business has had on intellectual property and the need for the Pirate Party’s legislative input. There are a number of ‘copyright industries’ that are affected by these issues, none more so than the music industry. In the dawn of the digital era, the Pirate Party advocates that governments and multinational corporations are using intellectual property to: crack down on file sharing which limits the ability to share knowledge and information increase the terms and length of copyright to raise profits and build code into music files which limits their ability to be shared (Pirate Party, 2009).
The Pirate Party suggests that they are achieving this goal through the amendment of intellectual property legislation.
The Pirate Party believes the state and big business are in the process of protecting stale and inefficient models of business for their own monetary benefit by limiting our right to share information.
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