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Pirate Bay Co-founder Peter Sunde Running For European Parliament

Posted by Unknown on from the lyndon-larouche-2016 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Peter Sunde aka brokep of TPB fame is going to run for European Parliament in 2014, as a Finnish Pirate Party candidate. As he still has a prison sentence to serve in Sweden, he might have to campaign from behind bars. 'Amusingly, the Pirate ticket in Finland could have been even bigger than it is now. Sunde informs TorrentFreak that he also reached out to Finnish-born Kim Dotcom to join the race, but the Megaupload founder currently has other priorities.'"

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  1. Re:No one wants a one trick pony by backslashdot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obviously you're willfully ignorant of the pirate party, as well as about the other issues you mentioned. Take a few minutes to research topics before spewing nonsensical stuff.

  2. Re:No one wants a one trick pony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone wants a one trick pony, because they steal votes from the major parties, forcing them to pay attention to the issues the one trick pony campaigns for.

  3. Re:No one wants a one trick pony by Viol8 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not ignorant of them at all - they're a one issue party that pays lip service to the issues adults actually care about. They're a joke.

  4. Re:No one wants a one trick pony by i+kan+reed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know, we should vote for the zero issue parties that pay lip service to the issues adults actually care about very loudly.