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Swedish Voters Keelhaul Pirate Party

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ye'll-get-im-next-time-buckos dept.

Billosaur writes "Apparently the 'scurvy dawgs' are still in control. Results from Sunday's Swedish national election were not favorable for the Pirate Party, according to Wired News. According to the article, 'The Pirate Party not only failed to score the 4 percent required for a seat in Sweden's Parliament, but appears to have missed the 1 percent that would have afforded the party state assistance with printing ballots and funding staff in the next election.' However, the party sees this as a learning experience and morale is still good."

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  1. Re:This was not good to start with by brisey · · Score: -1, Troll

    Agreed 100%. They seemed to advocate that anyone could copy anyone elses intellectrual property without permission. Best summed up as the abolition of conventional capitalism. If they had just been honest and renamed themselves the 'communist party' they might have done a bit better. Hopefully now people will see them for the freeloading jokes that they are.

  2. Re:It Is Necessary by brisey · · Score: -1, Troll

    "you just suffer less incentive to come up with innovative ideas since copying someone else's is easier. " read that as ZERO incentive. Whats the point of making new music / movies / agmes / software, all of which is copied trivially. Kiss goodbye to all those industries. Also, kiss the pharmaceutical industry goodbye too, why bother researching cures when you can copy the next persons. Face facts, this hippy philosophy works fine for swedes IF they can copy all the IP made by other countries in Europe,japan, and the US. Does the 'pirate party' advocate only copying products made by other swedes? or are you happy to leach purely off other people? "Freeloading, maybe ... but not the whole way." ha, that makes it ok then. Thanks, I always thought your party was nothing mroe than a bunch of freeloaders, nice to hear it from one of you, openly. "Most people on /. hate IP laws anyways" wow, what a cutting argument. most people I know hate paying taxes. lets abolish them! yipee! im sure theres no downside! maybe you can persuade people in other coutnries to pay all the taxes so you lucky swedes can freeload from them eh? This isnt a legitmiate political party. Its students who have yet to experience the way the world works. Thankfully they got the electoral ass-kick they deserved.