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Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin

Posted by samzenpus on from the walking-the-plank-of-the-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Party won its first seat in the Berlin state elections with almost 9% of the vote. From the article: '"We will get right to work," top Pirate candidate, Andreas Baum, told ZDF television. "This is all new for us."'"

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  1. Re:First... by vranash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Weren't pirates often 'reliefing' the government of it's 'hard earned' tax dollars? By 'hard earned' I meant: 'stolen from the poor'?:D

  2. Re:Dear Pirate Party: by Tom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you had actually read the statements of the german Pirate Party, you'd know their position is not one of "screw the creators, everything free for everyone", but quite a bit more thought-out. Go read it.

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  3. Re:Dear Pirate Party: by Adrian+Lopez · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop screwing creators.

    Tell that to the music labels.

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    "In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
  4. Re:Dear Pirate Party: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can you justify a retroactive copyright extension like the one that got just passed in Europe one month ago? How the hell a retroactive extension is going to encourage creation in the past? Or is the copyright extension including a time machine?

    With these things one wonders how they are not getting even more votes....

  5. Re:Reactions of other parties by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. Minus the creationism, gold standard and crazy stuff, of course.