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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. A Serious Concern by Haffner · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't this bring up some real issues about the legitimacy of the Swedish government? While I think this is a great (hilarious!) idea, I think this would probably do more harm than good.

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