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Submission + - Pirate Party 3rd Largest Political Party in Sweden (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by hyanakin on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @01:29PM

hyanakin writes: Support for the Swedish Pirate Party surged following the Pirate Bay verdict and today it became the third largest political party in the country. When they are elected for the European Parliament next month, the party hopes to end the abuse of copyright by multi-billion dollar corporations.

The explosive growth rate displayed after the Pirate Bay verdict has skyrocketed the Pirate Party's member count and today they've surpassed that of the Center Party. Of all the established parties only the Christian Party and the Moderate Party have more members.

Read the whole story here

Submission + - Italian Pirate Bay Trial in the Making

Submitted by hyanakin on Saturday May 02, 2009 @02:22PM

hyanakin writes: Following the Swedish verdict, Italy is now considering starting its own trial against the people involved with The Pirate Bay. This would be the first criminal prosecution against the Pirate Bay 'founders' outside their home country. Read the full article on TorrentFreak

Comment Re:When your political party is (Score 1) 354

by hyanakin on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:11PM (#27792791) Attached to: Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site

ignorance is a bliss, right?

please point out where their ideology is based on theft? Furthermore, what is theft actually?

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 2, Interesting) 354

by hyanakin on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:04PM (#27792725) Attached to: Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site

I just wonder what this "intellectual property of your work" is that StudiVZ generates? I rather thing it's a site where lots of personal information is shared in a nice package and so targetted advertising is made simple. However I lack to see what IP those sites generate (that could be turned into profits).

Comment Re:Is it an officially-registered political party (Score 2, Informative) 354

by hyanakin on Friday May 01, 2009 @04:57PM (#27792623) Attached to: Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site

it is... they are running also for the upcoming EU parliament elections. Just to quote from the TF article: Andreas Popp, lead candidate for the upcoming European Parliament elections characterizes the censorship as undemocratic.

Comment Re:Oh boo hoo (Score 3, Insightful) 354

by hyanakin on Friday May 01, 2009 @04:50PM (#27792561) Attached to: Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site

are you confusing "Pirate Party" and "The Pirate Bay"?

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