Appeal: Find a peaceful solution for Ladonia!

We oppose the escalation of the conflict around the information policy of Ladonia, especially the ACFI's preparations for a military solution. This drives the world to the brink of war again. The core of the matter is bandwith. The Pirate Bay as the world's largest Bittorrent tracker in the world wants to maintain its position in Scandinavia particularly against DC++ and Freenet. It does not make a secret of its plans to bring about a regime change. Yet, a war against Ladonia is certainly going to set the entire IP range on fire and trigger unforeseeable consequences for the net at large.

The unresolved problems related to file-sharing, piracy, illegal sampling and general undermining of the respect for authorship have already turned the entire Internets into a powder keg. Ladonian state-secretary Vilks' art have added to the conflict. ACFI wants the war and the Ladonian state-secretary does not want to avoid it.

Instead of force and threats we propose a peaceful settlement to the information policy conflict with Ladonia and a comprehensive Scandinavian intellectual property conference. It is necessary to:

1. Establish a internet-free zone in Scandinavia on the basis of a comprehensive renunciation of force and security guarantees by the permanent members of the ICANN vis-à-vis all ISP's of the region;
2. Recognise internationally Ladonia's right to build wooden cannons and of he peaceful use of drift wood. At the same time the whole region shall be offered a comprehensive know-how and technology transfer in the field of analog communication technologies;
3. Recognise The Pirate Bay's right to exist as an indexing engine and reach a binding agreement on the distribution of uncopyrighted metadata;
4. Create a viable and sovereign copyright law within internationally recognised limits;
5. Agree on a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Ladonia.

We demand that the Swedish government declares bindingly and publicly: Sweden rejects the ACFI military plans, does not take part in preparing for a war and will neither directly nor indirectly support any warring activities against Ladonia. The Swedish government should rather call on all countries to adopt a similar stance.

We expect the Swedish government to put comprehensive disarmament back on the day-to-day agenda of its IT and copyright policy. Demanding that the ACFI withdraws its secret warez servers from Sweden would be a token for digital disarmament.

We appeal to all people concerned about peace, to peace and conflict researchers, to Linux user groups and activists in the free software movement: Show your resistance to a new war. On the 29 July we demand spending less on internet communications and more on Hits For Kids-albums, Hollywood-movies and other forms of content.