Canadian Pirate Party Shows Guts, Launches New BitTorrent Tracker to Help Artists

P2P can be good for musicians, wants to prove Canadian Pirate Party

The Canadian Pirate Party (CPP) is determined to make its point and what better way to show that P2P can be indeed useful to artists than launching a BitTorrent tracker, Zeropaid reports.

With the declared purpose of reforming copyright and facilitating access to culture, Canada’s Pirate Party has lately focused on proving and teaching musicians new ways of making money apart from the revenue coming from album sales.

So, the goal of showing that P2P is not the villain record labels so fervently claim it is started with the creation of Canadian Pirate Tracker, dubbed “CaPT” – designed to offer artists a fast, cheap, and easy access to a global distribution network:

We want to adjust copyright so that artists can better build on previous works and chose the distribution and licensing model that allows them to make a living. We will also help music artists educate themselves about earning money through other means than selling records, for example by performing live shows and selling fan articles and where feasible, we will evaluate the introduction of levies to further compensate artists. In turn, we want to adjust copyright for consumers to make private, non-commercial copying of content legal. This will promote artists and help spread culture farther than ever before.

Jake Daynes, a spokesperson for the Pirate Party of Canada, explained in a recent statement:“We do have a slight moderation system, which is mainly me going through every track, just to make sure it isn’t a copyright violation, but it shouldn’t take more than 24 hours to get something posted.”

We have to give CPP credit for raising the stake with such an initiative – given the amplitude that the file sharing debate among artists has reached recently I definitely see this as a great opportunity for P2P supporters (whether artists or public) to make a solid case against those who are only trying to eradicate this way of distributing content and totally disregard the benefits it may present.