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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. No one wants a one trick pony by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It might come as news to this guy , who knows, but anyone over the age of 18 - ie people who can vote - have more pressing concerns in europe right now that whether they can download pirated media. You know, minor things like over 50% youth unemployement in spain, the collapse of the greek economy and its knock on effects, mass immigration, enviromental degradation...

    But hey, I'm sure compaigning for being able to download crap for free is the golden ticket.

    Not.