Pirate Party Australia today fired its latest salvo in the copyright war by endorsing the spoof video Deliberate Pirate made by party member and activist, Simon Frew, in response to the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation’s latest campaign ‘Accidental Pirate’. The video squarely takes aim at those behind the campaign, emploring big media to get with the times and stop the confrontational approach with ISPs and music fans.
Pirate Party activist and artist behind the film, Simon Frew said “we were mocking the accidental pirate campaign for its amatuer production values and patronising tone. It was such a joke that the video quite literally wrote itself. The view that file sharing is harming the entertainment industry is not borne out by statistics, and big media conglomerates crying poor is quite frankly laughable.”