Copyright holder organisations in Finland were outraged at the news of the group's formation.
"We are absolutely against the idea that any political party can give their support to the idea of free use of protected content," said Arto Alaspaeae[sic], the director of IFPI Finland (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
There you go: if the record companies called the shots, Finnish political parties wouldn't be allowed to have "wrong" opinions on copyright. Read it closely. They're against the idea that any political party can give their support to cutting down copyright.
I wonder if anyone has told them this is at least supposed to be a democracy.
For more on the topic, here's Cory Doctorow: Economists call for patent and copyright abolition.
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