Political parties usually have political ambitions. Some parties favor smaller government, others expanding social welfare. At the core of things, the people generally hope that society's best interests are served - should tax money go to schools? That new highway project? What about health care? Or perhaps politicians should dedicate their resources to hosting The Pirate Bay?

This may seem very farfetched, but consider this for a moment. According to the Pirat Partiet, or the Swedish Pirate Party, there's a provision in the Swedish Constitution that claims a member of parliament cannot be sued or arrested for something that is part of their political mandate. So how does this all fit in with The Pirate Bay?

As the September elections roll through, the Pirat Partiet has several candidates who intend to run on the pro-Pirate Bay platform. The Pirat Partiet, who has been providing bandwidth to the Pirate Bay's website, is looking to promote technology and innovation, which they believe The Pirate Bay represents.

"The Pirate Party does this to protect several important values: Information security, fundamental freedom of expression, the future of Sweden as an industrial nation, and Sweden's reputation as leading the way into the future. The Pirate Party consists of people who act on their resources where other politicians only appoint investigations and try to avoid responsibility."

"Sweden has long been at the forefront as an IT nation. But we have fallen in the rankings, largely because today's politicians do not see the connection between file-sharing culture and future industry skills. We have now dropped from place three to place eight in average household bandwidth.

"There are no reasons for us to accept this development. There are no technical reasons for this, just political. This is why we never can accept the copyright industry's systematical legal harassment of anyone who tries to create the next-generation industries. Their approach is criminal on the international arena and it ought to be criminal in Sweden as well: professional saboteurs are criminals, whomever foots the bill."

Considering the legal judgment against The Pirate Bay, we're very interested to know how exactly this will be pulled off. But first, at least one Pirat Partiet member has to actually get elected. Once that happens, perhaps they'll create an ad hoc web server under their MP seats? Stay tuned...


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Date: 2010-07-06 Source: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1994