From: Randy 

(from boingboing.net:)

Brent Allison, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, has founded
an American branch of Sweden's "Pirate Party," a political party
dedicated to copyright reform:

     All non-commercial copying and use should be completely free. File
sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized.
Culture and knowledge are good things, that increase in value the more they
are shared. The Internet could become the greatest public library ever
created.

     The monopoly for the copyright holder to exploit an aesthetic work
commercially should be limited to five years after publication. Today's
copyright terms are simply absurd. Nobody needs to make money seventy years
after he is dead. No film studio or record company bases its investment
decisions on the off-chance that the product would be of interest to anyone
a hundred years in the future. The commercial life of cultural works is
staggeringly short in today's world. If you haven't made your money back in
the first one or two years, you never will. A five years copyright term for
commercial use is more than enough. Non-commercial use should be free from
day one.

     We also want a complete ban on DRM technologies, and on contract
clauses that aim to restrict the consumers' legal rights in this area.
There is no point in restoring balance and reason to the legislation, if at
the same time we continue to allow the big media companies to both write
and enforce their own arbitrary laws.

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