Christian Engström

Greens and Pirate Party lead EU charge for Internet freedom

Kemptown Ben's Green Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Sometimes something unexpected happens in politics which re-affirms your belief in the political bedfellows you keep - I came across a small but heartening example of this yesterday, while musing over the Government's latest draconian attack on Internet freedom and discovering that the Green Party has been resisting it at EU level. Last week, Busimness Secretary Peter Mandelson, fresh from holidaying...

Britain has its own Pirate Party: official

p2pnet (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- To the Korporate Kopyright Klans, Pirate Parties were something to be laughed at. A joke. But not any more —- not since the Swedish Pirate Party sent elected Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström to the European Parliament. “A couple of years ago, it would have seemed inconceivable that a group of upstarts [...]

Songwriters Guild Boss Claims Songwriters Can’t Write Without Copyright

Click World News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009

Last week, we wrote about a rather level-headed and quite interesting FT opinion piece written by The Pirate Party's Christian Engstrom, who now represents the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parliament. While the entertainment industry has tried to paint the Pirate Party as a bunch of thieves who just want stuff for free, Engstrom's piece was quite sensible in explaining the real thinking behind...

• Songwriters Guild Boss Claims Songwriters Can’t Write Without Copyright - Web News Site
• Songwriters Guild Boss Claims Songwriters Can't Write Without Copyright - Techdirt

Swedish Pirate Party: “Copyright Laws Threaten Our Online Freedom”

Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009

Op-ed notes that govts, in order to enforce copyright laws, are slowly restricting our ability to communicate with one another online. Christian Engström, newly elected member of the Swedish Pirate Party to the European Parliament, has written an excellent op-ed article for the Financial Times criticizing the damage that copyright law enforcement is doing to the [...]

Pirate Party teams with the Greens

p2pnet (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The Greens/EFA Group and Swedish Pirate Party have confirmed elected Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström will join the Greens/EFA Group for the upcoming European Parliament legislature, says a press statement, going on: “”The Greens/EFA Group is delighted to welcome the Swedish Pirate Party, which shares our principles and values [...]