Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' 723
sp3tt writes "Tired of being called criminals, a group of Swedish filesharers have started a new political party, The Piracy Party (Piratpartiet in Swedish). The party wants to abolish all intellectual property laws, reverse the data retention directive passed by the EU last month, and protect privacy with new laws. The party expresses no opinion on other subjects. The Piracy Party's webpage is so far only available in Swedish, at piratpartiet.se The party's goal is to get into to the parliament, which requires 4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes. Elections are held in September."
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And, what are the minimum residency requirements for voting in Sweden?
Non sequitur (Score:5, Funny)
From The Inquirer: Its massage is that corporations are engaging in racketeering in the developing world and a few power hungry individuals and greedy corporate entities are infringing on privacy and integrity.
Got to hand it to the Swedes, combining political advocacy with pirates and massages.
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Ge oss dina favoritargument!
You have to love languages where you can combinemultiplewords to expressasingleconcept. I doubt they have German beat, though.
A *real* piracy party... (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent !!! (Score:5, Funny)
I think the best part about a Piracy Party (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A *real* piracy party... (Score:1, Funny)
Parrot! Parrot! Parrot!
That Long, Long List of Great Swedish Musicians (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, wait...
In the US . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe it's, in Soviet Russia, state property pirates YOU!
Or something like that,... I digress!
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Do we bring Rum or Absolut? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do Swede young males vote even? (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:That Long, Long List of Great Swedish Musicians (Score:3, Funny)
imagine how horrible and sad the world would be without these wonderful swedish musicians..
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At least, I think that's what that would mean; I can't remember if "Unterführer" can be split, and it's been about six years since I used German conversationally for any length of time.
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That sounds a lot more fun than "bathroom break"
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Looks like we should import some vowels experts from Finland (I guess they can always make some extra cash as Lapp Dancers in their spare time
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Obviously you haven't been outside the US much.
Your 'kind' aren't exactly regarded as sexy or sophisticated.
That's why there's an ocean on either side protecting the rest of us.