Archive for the 'piratpartiet' Category

Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

Posted in Hot Off The Press, Legal Issues, P2P and Filesharing, piratpartiet, Politics and Ideology, SWEDEN, the pirate bay | Comments Off

Europe’s Second Pirate MP Still Not in Office

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The Pirate Party may have won two seats in last June’s European Parliament elections, but it’s hard to see that in practice. Despite the Lisbon Treaty going into effect just over 6 weeks ago, there is still no news of when Piratpartiet may fill their second seat.

Posted in Amelia Andersdotter, european_elections, piratpartiet, Politics and Ideology, Tor-Rant | Comments Off