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

Two questions:

[Art Popp]

How much does it cost to rent a one room studio "summer home?"

And, what are the minimum residency requirements for voting in Sweden?

Re:Two questions:

[Rei]

Most countries require citizenship. I'd imagine that citizenship would at least have some basic language requirements. Of course, judging from the site, that could be fun:

Ge oss dina favoritargument!

You have to love languages where you can combinemultiplewords to expressasingleconcept. I doubt they have German beat, though.

Re:Two questions:

[xtracto]

Or better yet, Any swedish girl wants to marry me? =-)

Re:Two questions:

[geekster]

Soundlikeyodawedo, with our multiwordcombine, yes, hmmm.

Re:Two questions:

[Zenmonkeycat]

Großoberunterkartoffelbreikäsewaffenführer: Chief Head Deputy mashed-potato cheese weapon leader

At least, I think that's what that would mean; I can't remember if "Unterführer" can be split, and it's been about six years since I used German conversationally for any length of time.

Re:Two questions:

[ceoyoyo]

Yup, "everyone" has to love that. Of course in English we're usually too lazy to write it all out anyway, so we just combine the first letters of the words, or actually, any letters that we like to spell something interesting. For a while we were calling this algorithm we developed the Field Uniformity Correction Kit. ;)

Re:Two questions:

[Anonymous Coward]

"Everything is English fault?" Smooth.

Re:Two questions:

[lowrydr310]

My favorite German word: pipipausen.

That sounds a lot more fun than "bathroom break"

Re:Two questions:

[PHPfanboy]

Yeah, but unfortunately each example you gave still only ends up with a paltry 4 letters.

Looks like we should import some vowels experts from Finland (I guess they can always make some extra cash as Lapp Dancers in their spare time ;-))

Re:Two questions:

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not likely.

Obviously you haven't been outside the US much.

Your 'kind' aren't exactly regarded as sexy or sophisticated.

That's why there's an ocean on either side protecting the rest of us.

Non sequitur

[Billosaur]

From The Inquirer: Its massage is that corporations are engaging in racketeering in the developing world and a few power hungry individuals and greedy corporate entities are infringing on privacy and integrity.

Got to hand it to the Swedes, combining political advocacy with pirates and massages.

A *real* piracy party...

[charlesbakerharris]

...would be a piracy pARRRRRRRRRRRty.

Re:A *real* piracy party...

[Anonymous Coward]

Pirrrrrrrrrrrracy parrrrrrrrrrottty!

Parrot! Parrot! Parrot!

Excellent !!!

[ThinWhiteDuke]

More pirates means less global warming

I think the best part about a Piracy Party

[Sheetrock]

Is that you don't have to go through all the trouble of fundraising. Just grab what you need when you need it.

That Long, Long List of Great Swedish Musicians

[RobotRunAmok]

Not to mention novelists and filmmakers. Won't someone think about THEIR rights?

Oh, wait...

Re:That Long, Long List of Great Swedish Musicians

[myspys]

dude, have you not heard of DR ALBAN? and REDNEX?

imagine how horrible and sad the world would be without these wonderful swedish musicians..

In the US . . .

[cashman73]

If this party were in the U.S., isn't it actually called the Communist Party ? I mean, if communism is all about no private ownership, public property, and all that. Then again, I guess even in Soviet Russia, they pirate state property.

Or maybe it's, in Soviet Russia, state property pirates YOU!

Or something like that,... I digress!

Do we bring Rum or Absolut?

[digitaldc]

To a Swedish Piracy Party?

Re:Do Swede young males vote even?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Bork bork bork!

Re:Do Swede young males vote even?

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot to take into account that most of the members of the "pot" party thought they were being invited to a "pot party" and showed up at Tom's house on the second Tuesday in November, where they lit up and stayed for several days eating pie.