User:Pervach

I'm from Auckland, but now living in Westport :D

Also called: Tommy Fergusson, President (Feb 2011-Nov 2012), NotWhatButWho, and by one guy "dear leader" :p

Since being involved with PPNZ, I have been studying Engineering at Auckland Uni, looking for evidence of dark matter (Hell yeah!) at ICRAR at UWA in Perth, Working in Auckland on an art bridge in Waitakere, a 14m Catamaran (and sailing it in Tonga), a C# GUI for an engineering company, financial industry modelling, and now working in Westport with 100+ ton mining equipment!

I got involved in the precursor to PPNZ around august 09 - The original orange and black ppnz forums. These forums had been started about a year before, had a flurry of activity for 6 months and then died for 6 months until EdisonCarter's mutiny. I'm actually disappointed that the old forums weren't preserved somewhere - I like my history.

Before that, i was (and still am) libertarian. I constructed my personal opinions of copyright and patents through libertarian principles, and came to the conclusion that they are not justified at all based on natural rights. Based on my views of economics i also came to the opinion that extending the term of copyrights and patents generally have increasing marginal detriment - so shortening them benefits society and justice a lot, while abolishing copyright and patents altogether only benefits a little bit more than shortening the term to 5 years would. (In fact, the benefits in the foreseeable future would be outweighed by the disruption caused by the scale of the transition)

See my random Vlog/political video collection. Which covers both Pirate and libertarian philosophy.

Annoyingly, the LibertariaNZ party holds the opposite view - that copyrights and patents are legal implementations of natural rights, based on what in my opinion is incomplete reasoning and a hypocritical unwillingness to critically analyse their own ideas.

Over the years, I've had beer with Pirates in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Basically anywhere in NZ Pirates have ever gathered to drink beer.