Hi Brandybuck, it isn't left/right, you're correct, although that "one or the other" way of characterising politics is pretty primitive. Are the Greens left or right? Well there is a whole lot more to the party's politics than that question!

Would you rather political parties kept quiet on DRM, leaving it to companies and citizens groups to tackle the issue? To my mind any noise from political parties is a good thing, putting more pressure on companies and governments to act. Since the Green Party has very strong views about the role of copyright, DRM and IT generally in a sustainable society it makes sense that we voice our concerns, doesn't it?

Finally, the Green Party in England & Wales have two Principal Speakers, male & female. We don't have a leader with authority to make decisions on our behalf, unlike other major national parties, because we don't think it's very democratic having people like Blair changing the party's direction without proper debate and votes. We have a man and a woman to address one of the most basic inequalities in British politics that still persists today -- we have one of the lowest proportion of female MPs in the developed world :(