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

Democracy?

[binarylarry]

How is democracy related to stealing revenue from other people?

If this was successful... whats next, the auto theft movement for "Rightfully freeing car from their owner for anyone to use."?

Re:Democracy?

[ibsteve2u]

Isn't capitalism essentially getting everybody to agree that you can charge them more for a good or service than it cost you to make or provide? I.e., extortion by mutual consent? A form of extortion that runs rampant when corporations grow to be large and few enough to rig marketplaces and buy politicians - a commonplace scenario, today?

My point is that perspective is everything, and the definition of crime these days often encompasses only the viewpoint of those with the most money.

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: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

[Xacid]

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

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

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:If they want to be taken seriously

[davev2.0]

if they represented the "Free Information" party

You want your information to be free? Great for you, go ahead and post all your personal information on line for us to look at. I like to keep mine under wraps, so I won't be voting for a party that wants "Free Information".

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.