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Christian Engström
Personal blog · christianengstrom.wordpress.compolitics
Christian Engström's personal blog at christianengstrom.wordpress.com covers politics. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “IFPI’s child porn strategy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Christian Engström's blog, written by a Pirate Party MEP, for its posts on copyright, patents, pharmaceutical patents and internet policy, often as sources supporting their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- IFPI’s child porn strategy3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-04-27
- The Pirate Party on Copyright Reform (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-03
What Hacker News says?
I believe in reform. 1 year exclusive copyright / patent at most and author always holds the copyright. Its ironic that the movie with the biggest budget is a pirate movie ;) https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-...
Comment linking /the-pirate-party-on-copyright-reform/
on “I Know What You Download on BitTorrent”Submitted The Pirate Party on Copyright Reform (2010) as a story · 81 points
HN discussionThere's more than a semantic difference between moral and material interests. In fact most "internet hippies" I know wants strong moral protection for authors [0][1]. It's a fairly central concept in the copyright debate, not least since it's part of the universal declaration of human rights. [0] http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-c... [1] http://the1709blog.blogspot.se/2012/05/pirate-party-p…
Comment linking /the-pirate-party-on-copyright-reform/
on “Dear Spike Lee”Submitted Epic win for transparency on ACTA as a story · 76 points
HN discussionAlso, on the same topic: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/studies-on...
Comment linking /2011/09/16/studies-on-the-cultural-sector-in-the-file-sharing-era/
on “Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden”Submitted ACTA negotiators inform the EU Parliament in secret (from Pirate MEP) as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> because I just know they have a different agenda/priority in mind It seems to be a core part of (european) music industry's fight for profit-oriented internet censorship: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-chil...
Comment linking /2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-strategy/
on “Full disk encryption is too good?”Submitted IFPI’s child porn strategy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/an-alterna...
Comment linking /2011/03/09/an-alternative-to-pharmaceutical-patents/
on “Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make Sense”Submitted European Parliament censors citizens trying to contact MEPs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not sure it's a good thing to do. Because this can happen: https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/european-...
Comment linking /2013/03/08/european-parliament-blocks-emails-containing-the-word-gender-on-internationa-womens-day/
on “Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance”Submitted Influence EU to not accept the proposed copyright reform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's an English translation on MEP Christian Engström's blog: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/the-swedis...
Comment linking /2010/05/18/the-swedish-pirate-party-delivers-bandwidth-to-the-pirate-bay/
on “The Pirate Bay up again - bandwidth provided by Swedish Pirate Party”Submitted Child pornography is great as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/an-alterna... explains, patents and current pharma corporations are an extremely inefficient middleman, and the exclusion of poor people from live saving medicine is not serving a useful purpose. Similarly, copyrights are discouraging authorship as well as encouraging it, and empirical evidence suggests the former factor may very well be stronger than the latter.…
Comment linking /2011/03/09/an-alternative-to-pharmaceutical-patents/
on “The copyright industry should brace itself: the Kim Dotcom saga isn't over”Submitted European Parliament censors citizens trying to contact MEPs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Pirate party has a good discussion of pharma patents: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/an-alterna...
Comment linking /2011/03/09/an-alternative-to-pharmaceutical-patents/
on “How patent protection for antibiotics creates incentives to render them useless”Submitted EU parliament wants to store all Internet searches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAbout pharma patents, I think many have been misled, as this explanation from the Pirate Party seems very credible: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/an-alterna...
Comment linking /2011/03/09/an-alternative-to-pharmaceutical-patents/
on “Full Screen Mario Takedown Notice”Submitted Counterfeiting and file sharing are different things as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The issue was that under the pretense of fighting child pornography the government wanted/wants to install a system The Christian-led goverment party didn't even pretend that hard what the envisioned "Zensurinfrastruktur" will be later mainly used for and on several occasions mentioned "child pornography, copyright infringement and other crimes" in one and the same sentence. This was exactly how the copyright lobb…
Comment linking /2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-strategy/
on “Berlin's new Pirate Party might be here to stay”Submitted Current Internet issues in the European Parliament as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s write an Internet Bill of Rights as a story · 1 points
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