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Pirate Party Becomes a Registered Political Party In Australia
First time accepted submitter norpy writes "The Australian branch of the pirate party has today announced that their registration as a political party has been successful. According to the announcement the party will now turn its attention to selection of candidates and development of policies for the upcoming federal election. 'Organising and validating a membership database to then submit to the AEC for the purposes of registration is a daunting task. Fortunately, we had a team of volunteers who were prepared to spend many weekends ensuring that the list we sent to the AEC was entirely valid, and I thank them for their effort,' said Brendan Molloy, Secretary of Pirate Party Australia."
"Or maybe they are already mature enough to realise it's not about downloading music and video for free but rather about mankinds future."
LOL :o) Oh please, spare me the feeble self justifying party line that people like you spout
"You know, minor things like freedom, innovation and mankinds future survival in the long run."
Didn't you just say that? Or have you run out of argument already?
"All our progress so far has been dependant on refining things already done,"
Not everything , and whats that got to do with no paying for content that someone else took time to create? You can dress it up as some magnanimous gift for mankind that you're selflessly endowing upon The People(tm) if you like but you're not fooling anyone.
"and when the patent system stops"
The patent system in the USA. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit.