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Swedish Pirate Demo

Posted by michael on from the sense-of-humor-useful dept.

Arioch of Chaos writes "In Sweden, May 1 is still a day when many people get out on the streets to take part in the traditional demonstrations. Today, the Swedish site Piratbyrån organised demonstrations in several Swedish towns, demanding more bandwith and the abolition of intellectual property laws. This picture is just great. More pictures here." Congratulations to whoever made the AYBABTU sign.

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  1. antiantipiratbyran.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    These guys are more the antiantipiratbyran.org,
    just abbreviated with some basic boolean logic.

    The first site is www.antipiratbyran.com,
    and it is the local Swedish branch of the BSA "police".
    (along with a few movie/music/etc representatives)

  2. Still Waiting by Bruha · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Considering the site does not load I can only assume they didnt get more bandwidth.

  3. Re:You don't understand freedom by mc6809e · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Freedom, or at least a free society does NOT mean the ability to do whatever you want. That is called Anarchy, and has never worked for a society. A free society is one where the people control the government in an indrect way.

    Again you miss the point.

    Freedom to do what you want is anarchy.

    Freedom FROM others is political freedom.

    They are not the same thing.

    In the case of publically financing something like broadband access, there will be some people required to pay for it though they do not use it or want it. They are not free in this case from a burden placed on them by others. That burden is in the form of taxes.

    They literally are working for someone else without benefit to themselves. That's a form of involuntary servitude.