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Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat

Posted by timothy on from the replace-amateur-clowns-with-professional-clowns dept.

reeeh2000 writes "According to TorrentFreak, with half of polling stations now closed in Sweden, the Pirate Party has at least one guaranteed seat in the EU Parliament. Currently, the party is sitting with 7% of the vote. Depending on how the remaining districts voted, the Pirate Party could win another seat, for a total of two." Reader lordholm adds a link to an article about exit polls in Sweden (link in Swedish) indicating that the Pirate Party will score two seats, writing "According to the polls, the pirate party is the largest party in the 18-30 year age category of voters. The final counting of votes (including around a million postal votes) will not be done until later next week."

3 of 674 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bravo! by Narishma · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Aren't you tired of copy-pasting the same crap in every article?

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    Mada mada dane.
  2. Re:One great big.. by dave420 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't want to sound like a dick, but there's a pretty decent argument that online privacy isn't the most pressing issue affecting Europe at the moment.

  3. Re:Bravo! by MrHanky · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's a pretty ignorant interpretation of their policies. The digital entertainment industry in its current form might depend on copyright, but abolishing copyright would result in a new digital entertainment industry that separates producing content (their job) from making copies (not their job).

    That's purely wishful thinking.