Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party'

sp3tt writes "Tired of being called criminals, a group of Swedish filesharers have started a new political party, The Piracy Party (Piratpartiet in Swedish). The party wants to abolish all intellectual property laws, reverse the data retention directive passed by the EU last month, and protect privacy with new laws. The party expresses no opinion on other subjects. The Piracy Party's webpage is so far only available in Swedish, at piratpartiet.se The party's goal is to get into to the parliament, which requires 4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes. Elections are held in September."

Comments

Re:More Criminals should try this

[DarkGreenNight]

Are there really that many people, even on Slashdot, that think stealing intellectual property is not wrong?

1) it's not stealing, it can be copywright infridgement
2) sometimes, in some countries, it's legal
3) "Right" and "Wrong" depen on your point of view.

Re:More Criminals should try this

[RatBastard]

Spoken like someone who's never had an idea worth any money.

Let's stop bullshitting ourselves and just admit the truth: you want the sweat of other people's brow and you don't want to have to pay for it.