Ironworks Gaming Forum - Swedish Software Pirates Found Political Party!

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Swedish pirates found political party
“Put your X here if you use pirated software…”
A new Swedish party has been founded by software pirates with the aim of abolishing copyrights, patens and trademarks. They founders want to be in the next election for the Riksdag (Swedish parliament, ed.) which is scheduled for September 24th and the party is a reaction to the stricter legislation against piracy introduced by the current Swedish government. Fittingly this new party has been christened ‘Piratpartiet’ – the Pirate Party.

Should the Pirate Party gain the majority of votes in the election, its first move will be to remove all copyright according to the Party’s programme. This will be done without any delays or studies. The party also wants Sweden to declare to the UN that the country no longer will accept international treaties on the matter.

The party is currently looking for people who want to run for a parliamentary seat, of course they need to be software pirates.

In order to be able to be listed as a party in the upcoming elections the pirates needed 1.500 signatures. After they opened a website on January 1st they got nearly 5.000 electronic signatures, which now have to be verified. However, in order to gain the first seat in the Riksdag, they need 225.000 votes. But the pirates aren’t worried about that, according to their own estimates, 800.000 Swedes use pirate software/games/media.

What do they really hope to achieve?