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Now if your Dutch, vote for the party that protects your PC and oh, the Internet!

https://www.piratenpartij.nl/

Oh that's hillarious. I knew of http://thepiratebay.se.proxy.piratenpartij.nl/ but it's nice to have another proxy run so blatantly on UK soil. Let's all wait for the imminent banning of the proxy, only for another one to spring up.

http://tpb.piratenpartij.nl/

If such a party would be established here in the Netherlands, it might make a better chance of getting at least a few representatives in the parlement because we do not have a district system and each vote has the same weight.

The Pirate Party was founded in the Netherlands years ago: http://piratenpartij.nl/news.php

There is one:

http://piratenpartij.nl/news.php

I will not go into the entire briefing of how the Dutch electoral system works, but basically it boils down to this:

If you have a political issue, you can do one of 3 things:

- Either you don't care enough, and don't in fact do anything (about 99% of the populace, unfotunately), or
- You see if there is a political party already present that represents you in this issue, and you join them, or
- You find there is no such party, and create one yourself.

In the last case, there are a few rules (My Social economics class was a decade ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the numbers here).
You have to declare at your city hall that you would like to create a political party. There is a fee involved (IIRC, it was 1000 guilders back then, so theoretically EUR 500) for registration. With a registered political party you can begin getting members for your party. If you reach a minumum percentage of votes (0,67%) in any official election you're running for, you get the registration fee back and you can select a member of your party to represent you in the house of representatives (2e kamer).

I guess it's quite obvious which will be the winning party... (Hint: http://www.piratenpartij.nl/)