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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."
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?
'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.
DRM-free indie games for the PC and Mac: Positech Games
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.