Vote the pirate party.... y'arrrg!

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 15:18

I had to lol when I read this:

The Swedish Pirate Party is going to make a serious bid in the next European Parliament with more than 20 candidates running.

Activist Christian Engström said that if politicians want to prevent ordinary citizens from sharing files, they will constantly have to expand their ability to monitor. He wants to reform the copyright legislation to ensure that citizens' right to privacy is respected."

The Pirate Party believes people should be able to freely copy books or music for private use. It also wants the abolition of the patent system and guaranteed online privacy rights. It might have a job though. Despite the fact that Sweden's youth might believe in the aims of the party. No one votes for them. In the Swedish national election in 2006 the outfit only got 0.63 percent of the votes.

Engström argues that since then there is a growing outrage in Sweden over draconian new anti-privacy legislation, and the recent trial of The Pirate Bay in Stockholm earned saturation-level media coverage.

Membership of the Pirate Party is now larger than the Left Party and the Green Party. The party's youth section, "Young Pirates," is currently the second biggest political youth group in Sweden.

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I wish the uk had one

I hope they dress up in costume!!

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 15:54

all this talk and not one picture of a pirate

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 16:12

I can just see their party promotion ad...

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 16:46

p4radox said:
What a load of BS. I hope no one actually votes for these idiots.

agreed - while I acknowledge the patent system to be really flawed, to get rid of it entirely is plain lunacy

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 17:19

KiTBoH said:
Most political parties over exaggerate what they intend to do just so they can get votes. I see no difference here.

I think sweden are getting a bit ott on the whole pirating front. They act like it's a right of theirs to just take any digital media they want. People will still do it even if it is illegal so it makes little difference.

The government won't change the laws, and the pirates won't change their ways. Getting rid of the laws is pointless, though, because then those who are paying would stop and a lot of digital media companies would not be able to make money :/

on that thought - I think as a company it would be easier to just stop selling to that country - if the pirate party (I love that name lol) win, I can imagine a lot of media companies jumping ship.

I do hope they are just being ott on what they wanna do - it does sound a bit radical tbh (and not in the good way) but it would be nice for someone to at least acknowledge that there are major flaws in digital distribution.

you know I bet robots would never have this problem

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 17:48

KiTBoH said:
Whereas computers are crowbar resistant?

Im sorry guys but its game over for me now - KiTBoH has just sent me to the land of chuckles.

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2009 at 17:59

Amp34 said:
I don't think any company would do that. With the invention of the internet it would be suicide, people who wanted to buy the media would instead just download it along with the "pirates", so the only people to "suffer" would be the record companies.

yes but whats the point of distributing in a country with no copyright law? nobody would buy the product when they can get it free. That is what the pirate party are trying to do by the way the article reads...