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Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat
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."
only fucking ignorant hippies voted for the "free stuff!!!1111" party.
The US makes billions from digital products. Only a fucking retard thinks its a good think tot tosally fucking trash the value of the futrues major economic production.
When the dumbass hippies who voted for them have to go get a job, their popularity will crash to zero.
This is such a joke. What civil liberties and personal rights are you voting to protect? Your right to pirate copyrighted materials on PirateBay? It's called the PIRATE party.
Slashdot has become a sickening pro-piracy website. Have you ever wondered why the big names like John Carmack no longer post here? Why doesn't he deserve to get paid for his work?
Ugh. How horrible. It's like seeing the Communists placing in the EU elections. Neither of them understand basic economics.
'file-sharing' is the new cuddly way to avoid admitting that it's theft.
In other news, car-jacking is to be called 'motor-car scrumping', hence making it seem socially acceptable.
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Give an example of the "harm" it has done. Meanwhile, you're the one advocating not paying artists for their work, which is more harmful than Disney having the rights to friggin' Mickey Mouse. That you actually think something called the PIRATE party deserves a place in government is scary.
Face it. Copyright owners deserve to be able to make money off their work. If Disney works to get copyright extended, it's simply because the technology of entertainment has changed so that people still make money off of works from decades prior, and the laws have changed to accommodate it.
All you want is to get shit for free, like other Slashdotters. Nothing more, nothing less. Any arguments about freedom or economic harm are mental justifications you use in your mind so that you don't feel like a bad guy when you pirate somebody's hard work.
It concerns me that people think they can use the product of my mind for free and against my wishes. How can you justify that? Don't the rights of those who create the content matter?
No. People voted for the "free stuff!" party (seriously, why do you think they call themselves pirates) because they're leeches who don't want to lose their free ride. Slashdot has become notorious in the last decade for becoming a closed-minded pro-piracy haven, arguing that no content creators have any rights to make money off their work and constantly bashing the RIAA, day after day after day, to convince its readers that people who legally pursue copyright infringers are somehow the bad guys (never mind that Slashdot said during the Napster trial they should do that, which is another example of the goofy hypocrisy around here).
I think it's really strange how piracy is lauded around here and how people don't want to admit that their motives are strictly selfish. Nobody wants to consider the consequences that if artists don't get paid for their work, they won't be able to make a living off their work, and it will be harder to contribute anything to the world. There's this idealistic notion that people will just happily give everything away for free, and money will magically spring out of thin air to keep them going. Even Linux is a well-funded corporate creation these days, sponsored by companies who offer support contracts and such and developed by employees and volunteers with a vested interest.
It would be interesting to hear what you guys would say to an artist whose work is getting pirated. They're just supposed to accept it? What would you tell John Carmack--that the years of his life he spent on Doom 3 don't deserve compensation?
"Sufferin' succotash."
It is absolutely maddening that this is what Slashdot has become. For people who supposedly pride themselves rational thought, have you ever taken a step back to look at your own views?
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).
And how do they get paid if anyone can replicate their content for free? Just hope for donations? There's a guy with a guitar on the corner of my street who does that. It doesn't seem to be working all that well for him.
But not, apparently, the freedom to share information. So what "freedom of information" are you talking about -- the freedom for information to exist? The freedom to own information and stifle the speech and actions of anyone else who wishes to use or share it?
How about the freedom of matters of fact? For example, we should have the freedom to know how our tax dollars are spent. That doesn't mean Microsoft should have the freedom to steal the code for Firefox, slap an IE-logo on it, and call it their own.
Only if your definition of "freedom" excludes freedom of speech.
You've got to be kidding. You really think that the "freedom" to steal an author's or musician's work is the same as the freedom to criticize government policies?
You're acting like a child.
I seriously don't understand this. I hope this is merely a protest vote, and that all these people aren't advocating outright theft as a legal activity. Seriously, what's going on here? Is there so little sense of right and wrong with the 18-30 range that stealing is now considered ok, as long as it's done online and against people you don't like? Who honestly believes after thinking about it that this party is for personal rights or civil liberties? Who associates the word "pirate" with "civic minded person"? This is a "political" party in only the loosest of terms. I seriously am worried about the future of humanity here.
It is time for the old "Me Generation" to give up their title. A new generation is much more deserving of it now.
take a look at 'civony' the copyright infringing free-to-play crappy MMO that is advertising all over the net.
A total fucking timesink designed purely to aggravate players into paying to avoid the drudgery of the gameplay.
Thats your future business model kid, And you are fucking welcome to it.
Its sad that immature snarky drivel like yours is considered insightful by the groupthink pirates here.
Guess what kiddies, content developers don't make content for people like you any more, you have made yourselves truly fucking irrelevant.
DRM-free indie games for the PC and Mac: Positech Games
So if there were no music you could copy, you would finally be happy.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck