[d@DCC] Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P

[Neil Leyton]

I'd e-mailed Layton before and told him that I thought it'd be a good 
move for a politician to back file-sharing... received no reply, so I 
can't be sure whether he even read my e-mail or whether his hangin' out 
with Sam Roberts at the Junos had anything to do with it... I'd imagine 
most people at the Junos would be anti-sharing...

Neil

Jason Young wrote:

> http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/09/canadas_ndp_leader_e.html
>
> Friday, April 9, 2004
>
> Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P
>
> Jack Layton is the leader of the NDP, Canada's left-wing New Democratic
> Party, and is in the running for Prime Minister of Canada in the next
> election. On the heels of Canada's landmark court decision that 
> essentially
> legalized file sharing, Layton has turned P2P into an election issue,
> endorsing file-sharing as a beneficial activity, a gutsy move, 
> considering
> the Party's close ties with the arts (the NDP has traditionally endorsed
> strong arts-spending):
>
> "I'm a holder of a copyright myself. But it's a book on homelessness 
> and I
> don't mind if anyone wants to copy it," he says with a grin. "I'm 
> still not
> so sure how (file sharing) impacts sales -- some studies even say it
> enhances them. I don't think the dust has settled on this yet. When I 
> was at
> university there was a great fear that photocopying was going to 
> destroy the
> publishing industry and that hasn't happened. It's sometimes best to 
> muddle
> along, take things one step at a time and see what happens. Society 
> can have
> a way of sorting things out."
>
> Link
> http://action.web.ca/home/ndpnpd/en_ndpinthenews.shtml?sh_itm=a54fcc8b3a3f78 
>
> 96bbdbc9dda048908c&AA_EX_Session=7491c7dfec8d43fb8df25c33106e7b2f
>
> (Thanks, Simon!)
> posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:40:49 AM
>


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