Pirate Party Wins European Parliament Seat

How much can one seat out of 785 do when it comes to creating policy? I’m guessing not much. But for the cretins who don’t want to pay for content like movies, music and software, this is a huge victory.

From Reuters here:

Sweden’s Pirate Party, striking a chord with voters who want more free content on the Internet, don’t want to pay for music and movies on the internet, won a seat in the European Parliament.

The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot, enough to give it a single seat. The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet.

“This is fantastic!” Christian Engstrom, the party’s top candidate, told Reuters. “This shows that there are a lot of people who think that personal integrity is important and that it matters that we deal with the Internet and the new information society in the right way.”

Previously an obscure group of single-issue activists, the party enjoyed a jump in popularity after the conviction in April of four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest free file-sharing website. The Pirate Party will take up one of Sweden’s 18 seats in the 785-seat parliament.

Abolish patents, intellectual and real property rights?  These folk are all morons.  They simply want to legitimize their criminal activity.  Of course this movement will fail.