The Swedish Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a
seat in the European Parliament... the Pirates have 7.1 percent of the
votes ... This means that the Pirate Party will get at least one, but
most likely two of the 18 (+2) available seats Sweden has at the
European Parliament <br><br>Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge:<blockquote>"Together,
we have today changed the landscape of European politics. No matter how
this night ends, we have changed it. This feels wonderful. The citizens
have understood it’s time to make a difference. The older politicians
have taken apart young peoples’ lifestyle, bit by bit. We do not accept
the authorities’ mass-surveillance"<br><br><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/">http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/</a><br>
</blockquote><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Bill Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
turns out that the judge who passed verdict in the pirate bay case is <br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">"... a signed up member of <span>Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt ('the Swedish Copyright
Association'), where he is joined by Henrik Pontén, Peter Danowsky and
Monique Wadsted, all of whom represented the entertainment industry in
the case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay.</span><br><br><span>
The judge also sits on the board of Svenska föreningen för industriellt
rättsskydd (Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial
Property), a group actively advocating for more stringent copyright
laws.</span>"<br><a href="http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/" target="_blank">http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/</a><br></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">one of the lawyers has called for a mistrial<br><br>corruption in Sweden, whoever would have imagined such a thing?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br>On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Gavin Ballard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin@vitta.org.au" target="_blank">gavin@vitta.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">As Forbes points out, this decision also raises some interesting questions with regard to Google:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-google-technology-internet-pirate-bay.html" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-google-technology-internet-pirate-bay.html</a><br></font><br>
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"Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>Sent: Monday, 20 April, 2009 12:29:53 PM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected<br>
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fines for Violating Copyright Law<br><br>it will be interesting to see how the Pirate Party goes in the next <span>European parliamentary elections</span> (<span>June 7th)</span><br>
<br><a href="http://www.thelocal.se/18954/20090419/" target="_blank">http://www.thelocal.se/18954/20090419/</a><br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span>The Pirate Party organized demonstrations against the convictions
at several cities across Sweden on Saturday. More than 1,000 people
turned out in Stockholm to show support for The Pirate Bay defendents
and the practice of file sharing ...</span><br><br><span>
</span><span>Since the Stockholm district court passed judgment on April 17th the
Pirate Party confirmed on Saturday afternoon that its membership has
swelled to 21,000. </span><br><br><span>
The party's youth league is now, with its 10,000 members, larger than all of the parliamentary party youth organizations.</span><br></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yes, remember a trial in the 80’s when the film industry sued
Sony for manufacturing VHS tapes that were used for 'illegally' copying
movies? (now known as time shifting) .. history just repeating itself.<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios</a><br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/18 Anderson, Stuart L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anderson.stuart.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">anderson.stuart.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span><div>
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<div><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">I'm sure this will lead to the demise of torrents...........................................and pigs might fly.</font></div>
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