Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany

bs0d3 writes "For the third consecutive regional election, The German Pirate Party has breached the five-percent mark needed to enter the state parliament, winning 8.2 percent of the vote in state of Schleswig-Holstein. From the article: 'The big winners on the night were the Pirates, an upstart party that has shaken up the staid world of German politics with a campaign based on more transparency in the political process and internet freedom.'"

Comments

Re:Can someone explain to me

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd think Slashdot users would know how to use Google or Wikipedia.

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

Why Not Support the Remaining 99% to Also Steal?

[ad454]

With crony capitalism that has legalized theft by the 1% from the remaining 99%, is it not a surprise that the popularity is increasing for political parties promoting the legalization of theft for everyone else, to make it a level playing field.

Heck, even I am thinking of joining the pirate party, but I will might need to mug someone to pay my membership dues. (Just kidding!)

But we do have a serious problem on how crony capitalism has corrupted copyright and patent law. Especially when you consider DMCA, SOPA, digital locks, copyright extensions that has choked off public domain, etc.

The only real possibility to fix crony capitalism is with true democracy, which means mandatory public financing of political campaigns, banning of private political contributions and lobbying, banning of super-pacs and other groups, etc. So I won't hold my breath that enough mundane people will magically become sufficiently enlighten enough to support it. (Especially with the steady decline in education.)

Re:All the Crap

[sjwt]

Interesting though, about an 8% vote for the Pirate party in Germany, and about an 8% vote for the Nazi party in Greece..

Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party