Pirate Party to Run The Pirate Bay from Within Parliament
Pirate Party to Run The Pirate Bay from Within Parliament
Posted 07/02/2010 at 2:25pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The Swedish Pirate party announced back in May that they would be providing hosting for torrent site The Pirate Bay. Now they are taking things a step further and are expected to run the site's business from within the Swedish Parliament. The Swedish Constitution, they say, would protect this endeavor with its guarantee of legal immunity for actions undertaken as part of a party's political mandate.
The Pirate Party stresses the issues of government transparency, privacy, free speech, and copyright reform. An election is coming up soon, so much of this could just be political bluster. Still, they sound pretty serious. "We can never accept the copyright industry’s way of systematically and legally harassing anyone who tries to build next-generation industries," said Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge.
It seems The Pirate Bay just won't die, no matter how many battles they lose. There's always someone to clean things up and fill in the missing pieces.
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whitneymr
July 05, 2010 at 10:43am
So the MPAA might want to get nervous if a Swedish warship pulls into LA?
Your Mother was a hampster and your Father smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
SYNK109
July 04, 2010 at 8:07pm
That's hilarious. Now how many times have they tried shutting down the Pirate Bay?
gendoikari1
July 02, 2010 at 11:00pm
Now the only way to stop TPB is to raid the Swedish Parliament. Good job, Pirate Party.
thetechchild
July 02, 2010 at 9:21pm
Some stuff just won't die. Apparently, that stuff includes pirates and porn.
Yusonice
July 02, 2010 at 4:28pm
So what if movie hosting websites close down? downloading from TPB gives higher quality videos! Videos ripped by aXXo or jaybob is small size and reasonable quality
Mighty BOB!
July 03, 2010 at 4:47pm
I've always wondered what kind of video compression techniques pirates use to get a full-length movie into a 700MB file size. Just exporting a 2 minute demo reel gives me a file size of several hundred MB or even a few GB... I don't know squat about good compression. XD
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