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The Pirate Party is the Swedish political party, supports legalization of filesharing and reduction of measures for copyright protection on content in Network. The batch managed to achieve a large victory on elections to the European Parliament on June 7, 2009. This batch sensationally took the third place after social democrats (25 % of voices) and conservatives (18.5 % of voices), having collected 7.4 % of votes that grants it the right to occupy two of eighteen Swedish seats in the European Parliament.
Swedish Pirate Part was created in January, 2006, but on elections of the same year gave for it only 34 thousand votes. Rather large number of new members because of controversial laws of the country according to which filesharing is considered crime was succeeded to attract batches, and representatives of the authorities have the right to viewing e-mail of citizens, AR reports.
In particular, the popularity of Pirate Part promptly grew after in April, 2009 the Swedish court sentenced four founders of the popular The Pirate Bay torrent tracker of Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfried Svartkholm of Varga (Gottfrid Svartholm Warg), Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom to one year of imprisonment and also obliged to pay a penalty in the amount of $ 3.58 million. During legal procedure prosecutors accused defendants that The Pirate Bay promotes distribution of content protected by copyright.
After this event the number of party members trebled and now is about 48 thousand human. Also in elections to European Parliament the similar batch participated in Germany, but it received only 0.9 % of votes.
Party members
- Rick Falkvinge is the leader of Pirate Part.
- Anna Troberg — one of candidates for European Parliament of Pirate Part.
Quotes
"We just rewrote political history. Today politicians understood that such actions as restrictions of the rights of citizens in Network, will cost them works. We build the future of civil liberties" — Rick Falkvinge, the leader of Swedish Pirate Part after success on elections in June, 2009 said.
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