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June 29, 2009

Pirate parties parade through Prague, Paris...

“We do not want any political posts,” spokesperson Ondrej Profant told Czech news agency CTK. “If we managed to implement our program exclusively on the level of thinking, which means that large parties would embrace it as their own we would be satisfied.”

Like many of the other European pirate parties, the Czechs lack a broad political program; they care only about intellectual property issues and hope to partner with other parties in a coalition.

Rémy Cérésiani, the founder of the French pirates, says that the new movement’s values “are those of the digital generation that puts freedom, privacy, sharing, and transmission of culture and science, the opening of public space, solidarity and democracy at the center of its action.

“Our proposals are the flagship reform of copyright to allow universal access to culture through digital technology, the strengthening of direct democracy through the new tools made available via the Internet…. We are also committed to the preservation of individual liberties threatened in both the digital and in everyday life.”