The Pirates at the European Parliament
The Pirate Party, for the first time in history, will enter into European Parliament, having gained in Sweden 7.4 percent of the votes. A turning point which tells how nowadays the popular feeling around the topics of copyright on the Internet has changed. The main purpose of the Pirate Party is in fact to change the laws on the protection of copyright and they promit: “We’ll Defend freedom on the web”
This success is probably partially due to the process against the Swedish Pirate Bay, but there is more. It is a sign that young people want that the rooted habit to exchange music, films and games with their friends is recognized as a right and governments have to deal with that, without moving roughly against peer to peer and other forms of free distribution of knowledge.
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