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Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament

Posted by kdawson on from the criminalizing-dirty-tricks dept.

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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  1. Whoa. by Pojut · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. I love it! by fuzznutz · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  3. I'm moving to Sweden by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:I'm moving to Sweden by frosty_tsm · · Score: 5, Funny

      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".

  4. Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real? by Qzukk · · Score: 3, Funny

    so unless you plan on pirating from INSIDE the building

    It worked for the Permanent Assurance.

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  5. Re:*sniff* by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  6. There is one..... by ub3r+n3u7r4l1st · · Score: 3, Funny

    Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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