Politicans rethoric regaring filesharing

There has lately been quite the uprising amongs the bloggers here in Sweden(thus I almsot feel forced to join in). This is due to a new law that are going to be voted in the parlament within a few days. It's called IPRED, and is basicly giving the private organization antipiratbyrån free hands to sue everyone and everything. Pretty much like RIAA in USA.

As a political science student this is a very fashinating subject to observe. And I will write an essay on this, starting with it next week. The essay will most likely concentrate on the both sides ideology, basicly free information vs copyright. For as I see it, this is a class between generations. The younger generation, which has grown up with internet and has a widescale understanding of it, stands generally for free informations, while the older generations, which generally lacks any deep understanding of internet, both philosopicaly and technically.

My definition of one that are for free information isn't one that wants everything to be completely free, but understand they changes are needed to be made and certain parts aren't needed anymore. Changes that still allows the creater to get his profit from the art, but the way of distribution and making it available to the public have or should change.

The essay will not, in any way, be about how it is in reality. The situation is to fresh, to hard to get hard materials since there are very few emperic data to use. The numbers are thrown around like mad and even though I haven't spent much time trying to locate the source, I doubt there are anyone that I feel I can trust, from both sides.

But anyway, I have been reading a lot of this current situation, and what interest me the most is the politicans way of acting. It's easy to tell that they are truly uncertain of the situation. This is something they never encountered before which result in them retreating into lousy rethoric, rethorics that would have made the roman speakers scream in their graves. Their example trying to justify their cause lacks any parallell whatsoever. It's like they either refuse to accept how the new technology is working or they just lack the possibility to understand due to other indoctorinations.

I have read some blogs and comments that assume that the politicans are either bought or lobbyied into infinity. That the music industry, with all it's cash, control the politic. However, I claim that this isn't true. They aren't corrupted nor are the lobbying industry here in Sweden so powerful. There are some other forces, more deep and subtly forces at work here. And that is, as I already earlier, indoctorination. A quote from Johan Pherson from folkpartiet (the liberals) is "We always listen to the people, but politically I listen to my heart" (my translation).

This make my claim stronger, for he does listen to the opposition, but through his inability to understand the other indoctorination, he cannot work any other way. This is also why the music industry manage to get their will through, for they speak in the same language as the politicans does. Even when large part of the educated(understanding on how internet works) people goes against the politicans (refering to the FRA-law).

So, I do think the IPRED law will go through here in Sweden, but it will be very painful for the politicans. And eventally, as with FRA, they will be forced to retreat and rework the law.

But in the long run, they have already lost. The younger generation will eventally get in power, with the understanding of internet, and therefore will release it back into what it should be: Not a battleground but a place where creativity flourish. Beside, there is already got technology that makes these laws useless. All they will catch is people with the same indoctorination.