Just got back from an exhausting, but extremely valuable, weekend of media training with the other Pirate Party European Parliament candidates. The lessons learned will be valuable in many different situations, and I feel grateful to have been trained by one of Swedens foremost PR-guys.
After every event with other “pirates” I’m always shocked at the wide array of people that I meet, and what a positive experience it is. It’s a wonderful mix of age/politic angles/types of people/primary focuses. It’s just stunning that all of these people get along, and the debates that rise are often quite challenging in many positive ways.
Some of the people that attended had their focus on our point “Reform of/Abolishing of the patent system” and I got a lot of info from then I had not been able to assimilate online. The interesting thing about these guys is that they are actually patent holders for different technological/telecom patents to this date and had a lot of experience in that area. One of them described that he had worked for a major technology manufacturer and been a part of a project where they hampered their competition by doing a “patent carpet bombing” around their inventions, thus making it impossible to go ahead with their new and better technology. Patents are not used the way they are supposed to these days, and the system needs either a reform or it needs to be replaced with something that really works.
It was a great weekend and I loved meeting all this people that’s working to open up our society, restore the democratic balance and remove corporate influence over our lawmaking processes.
Thanks to all for a lot of interesting discussions and great company 
It is now 67 days until the EU-elections, and things are looking promising!
