Pirate Party to Run The Pirate Bay from within Swedish Parliament itself - Polidicks

[quote]After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament. When the Swedish Pirate Party announced, back in mid-May, that they were the new ISP of The Pirate Bay, it surprised a lot of people. With their latest announcement, that they will run The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish Parliament, they hope they will surprise people again. The Pirate Parties around the world are best known for copyright activism and are often seen as a ‘one-issue party’. While they also focus on privacy, government transparency, free speech, and patent reform, it is copyright that people’s minds spring to. So, with an election coming up, the Swedish Pirate Party has decided to play to their strength. The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament. This move will certainly push the site to center-stage in Sweden. It will ensure a huge amount of scrutiny in any and all decisions made regarding the site, which is undoubtedly the intent. “Sweden has long been a nation at the forefront of IT. But we have fallen in the rankings, largely because today’s politicians do not see the connection between file-sharing culture and future industry skills. We have now moved from place three to eight in available household bandwidth,” the Pirate Party informed TorrentFreak in a statement. “There is no reason for us to accept this development – there are no technical reasons for this, only political.” “Therefore, we can never accept the copyright industry’s way of systematically and legally harassing anyone who tries to build next-generation industries. The approach is criminal in the world and should be criminal in Sweden also, professional saboteurs are professional criminals, whoever they get their money from,” the Party added. Aside from hosting The Pirate Bay in Parliament, the Pirate Party also plans to criminalize copyright lawsuits against noncommercial file-sharers and websites, as well as lawsuits against ISPs for linking to copyrighted material. “The Lobby is used to using dirty tricks. Let’s see them take on legislators under constitutional protection who aim to criminalize their entire bag of dirty tricks,” Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told us. Of course, the plan can only take place if the Party wins some seats in the September 19th Elections, where there is a 4% barrier to overcome. However, last June they did manage 7% in the European Parliament elections, so it’s not an impossible goal by any means. We will have to wait and see what September brings. If The Pirate Party succeeds it will add some more controversy to the upcoming appeal of the ‘Pirate Bay Four’, which is currently scheduled to take place a month after the general elections.[/quote] You really could not make this up. [url=http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-to-run-tpb-from-parliament-010702/]Source.[/url]

I hope that piracy doesn't lead to sweden being a target for anything. Neutral country = less money on war, more money on tech.

Oh. Woow.

[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);23059160]I hope that piracy doesn't lead to sweden being a target for anything. Neutral country = less money on war, more money on tech.[/QUOTE] Why would internet piracy make Sweden a target for anything or anyone? :crossarms:

[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);23059160]I hope that piracy doesn't lead to sweden being a target for anything. Neutral country = less money on war, more money on tech.[/QUOTE] America wouldn't target an entire country for something a corporation happened to set up there that allows people from all over the world to exchange data with each other, and none of this data is routed through their servers at all. It's like throwing molotov's through your neighbour's window because one of his friends that he has over is stealing your wifi.

[QUOTE=bravehat;23059301]Why would internet piracy make Sweden a target for anything or anyone? :crossarms:[/QUOTE] Of the many things concerning the ingenuity of the human race, the ability to fuck shit up seems to be the dominant one.

[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);23059339]Of the many things concerning the ingenuity of the human race, the ability to fuck shit up seems to be the dominant one.[/QUOTE] Yeah, people don't attack a nation over data sharing, it just doesn't happen.

[quote]The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.[/quote] Please, for people who post without reading articles. At least read this quote from the article.

[QUOTE=bravehat;23059301]Why would internet piracy make Sweden a target for anything or anyone? :crossarms:[/QUOTE] Well the RIAA might target them, but that's a non-issue considering what the second A stands for.

im proud to be swedish :sweden:

[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;23059416]Please, for people who post without reading articles. At least read this quote from the article.[/QUOTE] I did read that. Note the wording of the title: "within" rather than "inside".

Welcome to socialist sweden, we got greater internet and more freedom then america. Oh yeah norway is fucking awesome to.

[QUOTE=Dr Nick;23059462]Well the RIAA might target them, but that's a non-issue considering what the second A stands for.[/QUOTE] That's not an issue for anyone anyway since the RIAA suck dick hard.

[QUOTE=TippZ;23059463]im proud to be swedish :sweden:[/QUOTE] I'm proud to be on you guys side. Scandinavians, yip-yip horray! :denmark::hf::sweden:

I am jealous. :britain:

In other news, MPAA and RIAA have requested permission to nuke Sweden.

Nice. Serious business too. I like how they make a point of the standstill of the industry.

That's why I love Sweden, it seems so smart about anything compared to others countries.

Pirate party is awesome.

I was worried for a moment there, woo pirate party.

Oh fuck yeah! Let's just hope they get into parliament.

I love Pirate Party and Sweden, but I fucking hate the language. And we're forced to learn it :arghfist::saddowns:

am i the only one imagining the pirate party's journey as some sort of epic film

[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;23059554]Welcome to socialist sweden, we got greater internet and more freedom then america. Oh yeah norway is fucking awesome to.[/QUOTE] lol socialist protip: they are some of the richest countries in europe

While the PP definitely isn't a good choice to run a country, I do like (and often agree) them standing up to the MPAA and RIAA. Also if MPAA and RIAA weren't such assholes, a lot of this probably would not have happened, the PP get's votes because people are fed up with RIAA/MPAA's shit (also trying to apply US laws to other parts of the world is possibly the thing that pisses people off the most). [editline]09:28PM[/editline] [QUOTE=raBBish;23063573]I love Pirate Party and Sweden, but I fucking hate the language. And we're forced to learn it :arghfist::saddowns:[/QUOTE] It's not melodic or verbose like certain other languages, but it's simple and straightforward (well relatively at least).

[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);23059339]Of the many things concerning the ingenuity of the human race, the ability to fuck shit up seems to be the dominant one.[/QUOTE] Not the human race, it can be changed if we want to. Statements like this seem to justify wars from which some people profit.

Fucking. Awesome. Now the RIAA will have to bomb the fucking Swedish Parliament to take the site down.

I love Sweden now.

Another thread where pirates insist they're not pirates but religiously support The Pirate Bay. And where they rate this post dumb six times each.

[b]Badass.[/b]