Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Party won its first seat in the Berlin state elections with almost 9% of the vote. From the article: '"We will get right to work," top Pirate candidate, Andreas Baum, told ZDF television. "This is all new for us."'"

Re:First...

[vranash]

Weren't pirates often 'reliefing' the government of it's 'hard earned' tax dollars? By 'hard earned' I meant: 'stolen from the poor'?:D

Re:Dear Pirate Party:

[Tom]

If you had actually read the statements of the german Pirate Party, you'd know their position is not one of "screw the creators, everything free for everyone", but quite a bit more thought-out. Go read it.

Re:Dear Pirate Party:

[Adrian Lopez]

Stop screwing creators.

Tell that to the music labels.

Re:Dear Pirate Party:

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you justify a retroactive copyright extension like the one that got just passed in Europe one month ago? How the hell a retroactive extension is going to encourage creation in the past? Or is the copyright extension including a time machine?

With these things one wonders how they are not getting even more votes....

Re:Reactions of other parties

[Arancaytar]

Sure. Minus the creationism, gold standard and crazy stuff, of course.