Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament

pickens writes "TorrentFreak reports that with 95 percent of the votes counted, it is clear that the Pirate Party will not enter the Swedish Parliament. The Party is currently stuck at about 1 percent of the total vote, nowhere near the 4 percent threshold it needs. This means that neither WikiLeaks nor The Pirate Bay will be hosted under Parliamentary immunity and the Party won't get the chance to legalize non-commercial file-sharing or criminalize 'copyright abuse' as they planned. 'The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever. Unfortunately, the wind was not in our sails this time, as it was with the European elections,' says party leader Rick Falkvinge. The party will now have to wait four more years before they have another shot at entering the Swedish Parliament. 'Each generation must reconquer democracy,' adds Falkvinge. 'Nobody said it was going to be an easy fight.'"

Comments

Re:Democracy?

[Haedrian]

No no, capitalism is a magical thing which involves the passing around of pieces of paper being 'good' and the pieces of paper not being passed around being 'bad'.

So anything that stops you from passing around paper in their direction is 'bad'.

Re:Oh, the Pirate Party

[Xacid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats

They're practically the same as the conservatives in the States. You poor, poor souls.

Re:Democracy?

[oldhack]

How is democracy related to stealing revenue from other people?

Don't know about democracy, but that's the essence of free market.

Re:Oh, the Pirate Party

[BitZtream]

Heres the hint to take from that ...

People will vote for the Nazi wanna-be's before they'll vote for the idiots that make up 'the pirate party'.

That should put it in perspective for you.

Thats not because they like the Nazi's, its because 'The Pirate Party' is about as retarded as you can get. Its an example of what happens when you let people with the maturity of a 12 year old boy act as if they are adults and let them play in the real world.

Re:I prefer this name...

[Hatta]

Right and wrong are independent of legality. Defrauding someone is wrong, whether it's legal or not. Copying something is ok, whether it's legal or not.