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Swedish political party votes for legal piracy

11 June 2008 14:53 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 9 comments

The V�nsterpartiet, translated to the Left Party of Sweden, held its annual congress last weekend and passed a motion that will legalize the online sharing of copyright material.

During the debate on whether to pass the measure, the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was cited as why current copyright legislation is outdated.

�The farce that is the ongoing legal procedures against The Pirate Bay also shows how legal security is in risk of being compromised by those trying to enforce the current ban on file sharing.�

Members continued on, �To many of us in the Left Party, file sharing is something positive in the same obvious way that public libraries are.�

Additionally, the measure asks for the end of "big brother" tactics such as surveillance, entrapment and lawsuits for alleged pirates.

The party only holds 22 seats in the Swedish parliament currently but hopefully this measure will see the light with the other political parties in Sweden.

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nintenut (Member) 11 June 2008 16:21
Oh, hell yes! This is the best day ever. [ + quote]
shummyr (Member) 11 June 2008 16:31
Finally someone sees the light [ + quote]
Solo_Tek (Junior Member) 11 June 2008 17:22
More reasons to love Sweden. Hot Chicks and Legal Piracy as well as Free college, hate paying student loans. [ + quote]
Pr3 (Newbie) 11 June 2008 17:45
you should come to denmark, where you get money to study ;P [ + quote]
shummyr (Member) 11 June 2008 18:06
*Originally posted by Pr3:* you should come to denmark, where you get money to study ;P *Originally posted by Pr3:* More reasons to love Sweden. Hot Chicks and Legal Piracy as well as Free college, hate paying student loans.;P The USA Needs to get rid of the mpaa riaa fbi anti piracy units and any other companys/divisions/sectors of the goverment [ + quote]
domie (Member) 11 June 2008 18:18
not to put a dampener on anything but let's not get carried away *Quote:* The party only holds 22 seats in the Swedish parliament currently but hopefully this measure will see the light with the other political parties in Sweden. oh yeah , of course .....the centre parties and right wing who make up almost 95% of the Swedish Parliament are sure to follow this idea aren't they ? This party have 22 seats out of 349 - that's just over 5% of the total - hell of an influence huh ? lol . [ + quote]
nobrainer (Inactive) 11 June 2008 18:43
@ domie The one thing in common that the V�nsterpartiet and the other parties share, is the Orwellian, police state, above the law tactics the media industry is using to spy on us all, and control the distribution of information, so even if free information for all is not achieved the topics of fascist behaviour will be raised. The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI. The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI. The IFPI Are: The same anti consumer lot as listed above! The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 11 June 2008 18:44
iluvendo (AfterDawn Addict) 11 June 2008 19:23
They could pool resources with the new "Pirate" party. [ + quote]
rlessmue (Junior Member) 12 June 2008 18:43
...doen't look good (odds): =========================================================== Current party representation in the Riksdag Parties� Leaders� Seats� Votes� Social Democratic Party Mona Sahlin 130 34.99% Moderate Party Fredrik Reinfeldt 97 26.23% Centre Party Maud Olofsson 29 7.88% Liberal People's Party Jan Bj�rklund 28 7.54% Christian Democrats G�ran H�gglund 24 6.59% Left Party Lars Ohly 22 5.85% Green Party Maria Wetterstrand and Peter Eriksson 19 5.24% Total 349 94.32% ======================================================== ...so is the "Left Party" strong & have much influnce? [ + quote]