November 20, 2009
Published: 7 Jun 09 21:58 CET
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Sweden's pro-file sharing Pirate Party is on its way to Brussels having secured more than 7 percent of the country's votes in the European Parliament elections, according to early exit polls.
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We need more mental health checks in sweden.
As thats allot of menstrual women
1 MEP out of a total of 785 in the European parliament of which 19 are Swedish... One has to come to terms whether one agrees or not that this issue needs a voice & deserves to be discussed while being given it´s importance as any other important issues as it´s been clearly shown from the exit polls.
So yes, well done Pirate Party!
'Aside from the Pirates, the Greens were Sweden's other big winners, scoring a sensational 11.5 percent in exit polls and becoming the country's third largest party behind the Social Democrats (25.1 percent) and Moderates (18.5).'
How come you just ignored the 13.6% of the country who voted for Folkpartiet?
The third largest party was in fact Jan Björklunds Liberals!!!
Tut!
People are rejecting the established parties.
Aside from some fairly static websites and the odd blog, how much have the none-Pirate Party parties done to reach 1/3 of the country's population?
As a small example of how effective the PPs online presence was (is)... they placed a text link to one of my online photos at flicker in one of their blog posts. That photo got nearly 1000 unique hits in a about 7 hours. Pretty good communication I would say.
So, from a 'traditional party' guy to the Pirate Party: Congratulations! I hope you can spread your message beyond the simple issue of file sharing.
This report came earlier than the official result. The exit poll on which it is based had the Greens as the third largest party.
Paul O'Mahony
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Hopefully that is what will happen with this. The EU, or at least Sweden will start to not be so antiquated in their thinking about the internet and we can get representatives willing to have opinions on all matters facing Sweden and the EU.
I definitely don't equate to the demographic you so glibly described as supporting the pp,quite the opposite in fact and I happily voted yesterday for said party,actually it would seem that these "KIDS" who never leave their parent's basements seem to have a lot more foresight than yourself.while the file sharing issue is a completely valid gripe(and i'm sure we could find some kipplin verse,"copyrighted" or otherwise to support it)there are much larger issues at stake, that of complete access to all aspects of the internet,privacy issues including access to private e mails, all forms of phone tapping etc etc.Whats down the road,the end of freedom of speech? From little acorns to "great" oak trees grow!You really need to be more open minded in your views,that is unless you work in a video store???
Of course they're going to get the vote of a party who promises not to curtail their illegal file sharing. Politicians have always played to the biggest gallery in terms of demographics (look at tomorrow's elections in Iran where 25% of the population is less than 15 years old, or Berlusconi's Centre-Right popularity with Italy's pensioners ).
Moreover, if the PP want a platform, the EU Parliament is not the best choice. They will completely trampled by the bigger parties who are governed by whips. They should have tried something smaller like the Swedish National Parliament where 7% of the vote actually means something in terms of elected members.
In terms posters on this forum claiming the the PP will stand up for their internet privacy. Sure, of course they will but only because it poses a threat to constituents' file sharing. In any other situation, the PP wouldn't give two farts for your internet rights.
If you're really concerned about "big brother" watching you (and I for one include myself), don't put a vote in for the PP who ironically have been responsible for most of the current legislation (terrorism aside) by rankling the music and movie copyright holders into convincing legislators to push through poorly thought out laws with no one's interest at heart.
What is needed for our internet rights is a cool head, a return to law & order (in terms of file sharing) and a party that doesn't attract fringe groups.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2541736281918823479
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If you think that the world would be better off without copyrighted material, show the world that you can live without copyrighted material. Boycott it! Don't read it and don't listen to it! Only listen to and read things in the public domain. But if you don't want to do that -- then you have proven that copyrights are necessary!
The copyright protects the right of the distributors not the authors. Authors can actually make much more money if they use other business models. These are lies spread by copyright lovers. Just spend 1 hour and watch the above video.
Then, why did the other 69% vote for PP? The PP has, as I understand, no opinion in ANY other area, so more than two out of three PP-voters voted for - nothing?