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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Whoa.

[Pojut]

"They have the biggest balls since balls came to ballstown." -Master Shake, paraphrased

I love it!

[fuzznutz]

How do those guys find pants to fit with balls that big?

I'm moving to Sweden

[alvinrod]

I'm moving to Sweden and starting the Hooker Party.

The party supporters will still get screwed, but not in the way usually associated with politics.

Re:I'm moving to Sweden

[frosty_tsm]

I'm moving to Sweden and starting the Hooker Party. The party supporters will still get screwed, but not in the way usually associated with politics.

Umm, dude, prostitution is legal in many European countries. Why go through all the work of starting a party when you could just start a "party".

Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real?

[Qzukk]

so unless you plan on pirating from INSIDE the building

It worked for the Permanent Assurance.

Re:*sniff*

[dkleinsc]

a. Visit your country on vacation

Wi not try a holiday in Sweden?
See the loveli lakes
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestik moose
A moose once bit my sister

Re:A Serious Concern

[Etcetera]

Is having the country run by Christians or oil magnates really any more sensible than pirates?

Yes. And, as usual, South Park puts it best:

Super Adventure Club Head Explorer: [Our founder, Phinehas] discovered that children have things called marlocks in their bodies. And when an adult has sex with a child, the marlocks implode, feeding the adult receptive cavity with energy that causes immortality, so saith the ruler of Bethos. Phinehas traveled the world, loving many, many children, and he lived for eternity. Until he was hit by a train in 1892.
Kyle: Do you realize how retarded that sounds?
Super Adventure Club Head Explorer: Is it any more retarded than the idea of God sending his son to die for our sins? Is it any more retarded than Buddha sitting beneath a tree for twenty years?
Stan: Yeah. It's way, way more retarded.

Re:*sniff*

[Per Wigren]

Mastering Swedish, lesson 3 (and the other parts) is a quick way to learn Swedish. It contains all the common phrases.

Sweden is beautiful in july and august when the weather is good but awfully cold most of the year. If you go here, make sure it's in the summer.

Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real?

[impaledsunset]

Just beam the other vessel aboard the parliament, and you're in the clear.

Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real?

[Miseph]

I'm not sure that I would really classify all members of Homo Sapiens Sapiens as human... And I've observed a rather high concentration of inhuman examples at high levels of government.

There is one.....

[ub3r n3u7r4l1st]

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Re:About the language

[arcade]

As a Norwegian, I'll have to say that Swedish is pretty darn simple to both speak and to understand. :-)

Oh. Right. Maybe because Norwegian is just as damn difficult for freigners, and so closely related to swedish that the two languages can be considered dialects of eachother.