Swedish 'The Pirate Bay' wins seat in EU Parliament

[Slav]

"Sweden's Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament.

The group - which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law - secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote. "

Read the full story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8089102.stm)

Wow, 7.1% of the vote :eek: I suppose having TPB trial only shortly before the EU parliamentary elections certainly gave them an advantage in terms of publicity.

Thoughts on this?

[kenshi4lyfe]

Hopefully that helps them out, but whatever happened with the appeal? Is that still ongoing too?

[Tsmiler]

thanks dude...........

[wideopenchannels]

the pirate party is becoming pretty popular in germany right now.
in some regions they reached up to 9,7 % of the votes in the province elections.
they are seventh biggest party in germany after the green party.

[acidraign]

Glad to here the youth are making a change

[goldenmard]

thanks my dear

[alik2b]

maybe they can change some laws or stop it from changing :)