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Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours
An anonymous reader writes "Due to outrage over the verdict in The Pirate Bay trial, the Swedish Pirate Party has gained 3000 members in less than 7 hours. It is now bigger than 3 of the 7 parties represented in the Swedish parliament. 'Ruling means that our political work must now be stepped up. We want to ensure that the Pirate Bay activities — to link people and information — is clearly lawful. And we want to do it for all people in Sweden, Europe and the world, continues Rick Falk Vinge. We want it to be open for ordinary people to disseminate and receive information without fear of imprisonment or astronomical damages.'"
They do not have any cabinet members, but they do have several people in correctional services.
Except Ron Paul is a loon. The Department of Education may very well be unconstitutional, but saying that you will abolish it isn't going to win you popular support (No, really, it won't), especially when you would never get Congress to go along with it (how hilarious would it be if the House and Senate had both just voted through a budget using veto override?).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
You seriously can't be this naive. I can't read your post without picturing you winking and nudging me. It's called PirateBay, their logo is a pirate ship, they have the support of a "Pirate Party," and they run a tracker server that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted materials.
Come on. This "outrage" over the verdict is stupid. PirateBay was ripping artists off. People only want to support it because they don't want to lose their free ride. It has nothing to do with "linking people and information." PirateBay could have done that without posting torrents for copyrighted materials.
Get real, Slashdot.