Sweden's Pirate Party, which attract voters who want more free content on the Internet, has won one seat in the European Parliament.
"The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet."
The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot held previous weekend.
Founded in 2006, the party enjoyed a jump in popularity after the conviction in April 2009 of four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing website.
The Pirate Party has my full support!
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Neat, going to check this out. I am part Swedish. Thanks for sharing~
One vote isn't going to be much of a voice, but this is interesting from the cultural standpoint.
I can agree with the removal of surveillance, but I would hope that patent and copyright law remains the same. Getting rid of those would be the beginning of the end because it would remove any incentive for people to invent and perform.
Because both copyright and patent law is global, if any player decided not to honor the treaties, it would collapse the entire system. China does not honor either of these and patent and copyright law is on shaky footing on this already.
Walker,
But what constitutes surveillance? I suspect there some who would object to having a government employee use Google to search the Internet for anything relating to his/her job.
As for patent laws in particular, there is a need to prevent patent law being used to suppress the introduction of innovations with which the patent holder does not want to enter the market because the patent holder produces/sells another product that would be unable to compete with the innovation.
Stealing is fine in the EU?