Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament 224
pickens writes "TorrentFreak reports that with 95 percent of the votes counted, it is clear that the Pirate Party will not enter the Swedish Parliament. The Party is currently stuck at about 1 percent of the total vote, nowhere near the 4 percent threshold it needs. This means that neither WikiLeaks nor The Pirate Bay will be hosted under Parliamentary immunity and the Party won't get the chance to legalize non-commercial file-sharing or criminalize 'copyright abuse' as they planned. 'The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever. Unfortunately, the wind was not in our sails this time, as it was with the European elections,' says party leader Rick Falkvinge. The party will now have to wait four more years before they have another shot at entering the Swedish Parliament. 'Each generation must reconquer democracy,' adds Falkvinge. 'Nobody said it was going to be an easy fight.'"
Oh, the Pirate Party (Score:2, Informative)
When the real news is that the swastica-waving "democratic nationalist" party Sverigedemokraterna got a seat in the parliament.
Re:Democracy? (Score:4, Informative)
Actually it demonstrates that most swedish media ignored the pirate party for the last few weeks before the election and instead focused on the "standard" election questions of jobs, healthcare and similar issues. Also, there's been a lot of anti-PP hollering from people claiming that anyone voting for the pirate party would be helping the sweden democrats into parliament. Essentially the pirate party and their issues have been completely ignored lately.
Re:Oh, the Pirate Party (Score:4, Informative)
they got 20 seats
http://www.val.se/val/val2010/valnatt/R/rike/index.html
Re:Democracy? (Score:4, Informative)
Please don't go down this road, I've argued this way too many times, just go to their website [piratpartiet.se] and read up on things before making arguments that have been answered a thousand times before.
Re:Democracy? (Score:2, Informative)
From Wikipedia:
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* Overall: ”Promoting global legislation to facilitate the emerging information society”
* Copyright: “We claim that today’s copyright system is unbalanced” Hence their position that copyright laws cover only commercial uses of the copyrighted material
* Patent: “Privatized monopolies are one of society’s worst enemies.” Hence their position that patents are obsolete and should be gradually destroyed. Regarding patents on pharmaceuticals, the Pirate Party proposes increasing government support for R&D to make up for loss of private R&D if there were no patent protection for innovation.
* Personal Privacy: “All attempts to curtail these rights (e.g. privacy) must be questioned and met with powerful opposition.” Hence their position that anti-terror laws nullify due process and run the risk of being used as repressive tools.
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There you go, now continue arguing.
Re:Ye dogs! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I prefer this name... (Score:3, Informative)
Copying something is obviously wrong
But, it's not. Creating scarcity where none exists is wrong. If that's not obvious to you, you don't really understand or support Pirate politics.
Re:Dump The Friggin Name Overboard (Score:3, Informative)
Eh? I would have voted for them if they had a candidate in my area, and I'm nearly 37. I'm also very smart. Hmmm I've just looked at your comment history, and you have a long history of calling everybody but yourself an idiot. From now on I'll just ignore you.
Phillip.