Up to 100 people including journalists, politicians and cyber security experts were fooled into connecting to a fake wireless network at this year's edition of Sweden’s annual 'Folk och försvar' security conference, the youth branch of the Swedish Pirate Party claims.
After the founder of the Pirate Party was revealed to be among Sweden's European Parliament candidates who had used drugs, he tells The Local how Sweden needs to shape up and drop its "narcissistic" drug policy beliefs.
Sweden's Pirate Party celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Pirate Bay file sharing site on Thursday by reporting the country's IT minister to the police for breaking Swedish copyright laws.
Filesharing site The Pirate Bay claims to have relocated to North Korea after legal threats led Sweden's Pirate Party to cut off the site's internet access.
Sweden's Pirate Party has decided to cut off internet access to filesharing site The Pirate Bay after lawyers representing Swedish copyright holders threatened legal action last week.
Lawyers representing Swedish copyright holders have threatened legal action against the Pirate Party in a fresh attempt to shutter filesharing site The Pirate Bay.
Sweden's Pirate Party has filed a complaint with the country's financial system watchdog alleging Swedish banks have been complicit in a long-running blockade of donations to WikiLeaks.
The Swedish Pirate Party has doubled its membership to 16,000 within the last few weeks after the party's Facebook page was linked by a file-sharing website, according to a report by Sveriges Radio.
Rick Falkvinge, the founder Sweden's Pirate Party, has found himself in hot water after publishing a lengthy polemic calling for the legalization of child pornography.
A now 16-year-old boy who had been turned in by his school for downloading films was convicted of violating Sweden's copyright laws by a appeals court on Wednesday, overturning a lower court's acquittal.
Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge has been named among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, alongside a number of Arab revolutionaries and the likes of Barack Obama, Ai WeiWei, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Sweden's Pirate Party has lauded the electoral success of its German sister party in the Berlin state parliament, calling it as a "major step forward" and a boost for the movement across the world.
The Swedish Pirate Party confirmed on Tuesday that it has agreed to host a number of new servers located in the country by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN.se) and state broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) have been reported to the police for publishing child porn in the form of manga cartoons, prohibited under Swedish law.
Sweden's Pirate Party said on Thursday that child pornography should be permitted in cartoons. The law should focus on 'real criminals' abusing children, its leader said.
Sweden's Pirate Party has announced that, in addition to standing in next year's general election, it will also be represented in local council elections.
Sweden’s Pirate Party has ended speculation about its political priorities by announcing that its newly elected member of the European Parliament plans to join the legislative body’s Greens/European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
