Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party

CrystalFalcon writes "Linux-P2P has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Swedish Pirate Party which is aiming to gain entry to Swedish Parliament this fall. (The party's founding was previously covered on Slashdot.) The party is totally for real, totally serious, and has seen approval ratings of 57% in some polls, with only four percent needed to gain seats. Its goals are to cut back copyrights, abolish patents, and strengthen the right to privacy."

Comments

Re:I don't like the term "pirate".

[Surt]

Well sure, if nothing is against the law, your crime rate is going to be quite low. If we legallized most drugs in the US, the crime rate would drop by something like 90%. If we legallized murder, rape, and child abuse we could get rid of most of the remaining 10%.

Sounds nice... BUT...

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a hardcore communist/socialist and would never vote for these guys even if they did campaign here in the U.S. I want to see tax rates at 100% with everyone on welfare, absolute prohibition on private gun ownership, forced labor camps, a lot more "Ruby Ridges" and "Wacos", people being forcibly relocated to the big cities, amnesty for all undocumented workers, and the abolishment of the constitution. I would vote for the pirate party if they did the above.

Re:here?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean like the current us system where the choice is between right-wing and far right-wing?

The Word "sarcasm" actually does not appear

[Soulfarmer]

Factually, the WORD sarcasm does not appear in the sentence parent posted, maybe the concept of sarcasm did. No wonder the mentioned 20% of the slashdotters never recognize the word...

(In the above sentence, the word sarcasm appeared twice and sentence appeared once.)