Pirate Party Unites In Australia

bennyboy64 writes "iTnews reports that the Pirate Party has opened a branch office in Australia and is recruiting office bearers and supporters. The group updated the Australian website it registered last year and advertised for a president, treasurer, secretary, and supporting positions. A party spokesman, Rodney Serkowski, said the group was close to establishing a beachhead in Australia. He said that with 300 supporters it was on its way to signing the 500 it needed to become an official Australian political party. 'We are currently an online community, working together with the intention of becoming a registered party, and we're coming closer to reaching that goal,' Serkowski said. 'If we can get the required 500 members, and be registered by year's end, I think it is highly probable that we will contest the next Federal election in Australia.' At the weekend about two percent of Germans voted for the Pirate Party, although it needed five percent to gain a seat in the Bundestag."

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Re:Freedom is born where oppression reigns

[zwei2stein]

... inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet ...

All bet are on ...

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Could there be a more supid name

[Anonymous Coward]

For a political party?

"What's the name of your organization?"
"The Pirate Party."
"Oh, aren't those the ones that believe in pirating other people's hard work?"
"No uhh... the name is a uhh... shut up, Arrr!!!!"

Re:Yarr

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Couldn't you just pay with ten double-sided copies of 50GBP notes?

Re:Freedom is born where oppression reigns

[MichaelSmith]

As freedom loving descendent of criminals all Australians will...

(sees new iPod)

Oh Shiny!

im not sure a pirate party

[nimbius]

would gain any ground in the states, and for two reasons.

1. the average american has been boiled like a frog into accepting the illegality of downloading content that majority shareholders and major corporations deem "unsuitable." id hate to even think it, but it almost seems as though we just dont care about or rights and freedoms as long as we're marketed a product that appears to cater to our wants reglardless of our rights (ipod and zune for example)

2. most americans and lawmakers especially would have a terrible time not associating the pirate party with somali pirates, if not at least subconsciously. This would need to be retooled to have a prettier name at very least.

finally for extra credit, americans have trouble with things like sex and sexuality, so if there were an initiative as pervasive as AU to censor our tubes, its hard to think there would be much if any resistance to it simply based on our culture. Just my theory.