Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament

rdnetto sends in this clip from TorrentFreak. To pursue these plans the Pirate Party needs to win 4% of the seats in Parliament in an election coming up in September. "After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament. ... The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from inside the Parliament, by Members of Parliament."

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[Joe Jay Bee]

Free speech, fine. Got absolutely no opposition to anything they say on freedom of speech, with them 100%. It's when they link such a thing to the ability to take otherwise-sold creative works for free (i.e. commit mass copyright infringement) that I take issue. GGP did not say that the PP is "a political branch", he said "THE political branch". The only one. I object to being lumped in with them, or the whole Internet being such, as I do not agree with them, and not everybody does. Just because I use the Internet does not mean I suddenly have to believe in copyright infringement and such being good (which is not, for what it's worth, the same as me thinking free culture and such is bad).