this was the FIRST federal election the party has ever seen, everybody believing the 5% barrier could have been reached has to think again.

2% is really, a good sign, it showed all the big established partys that the pirate party is NOT just an internet joke gone real-life – before the elections lots of people didn’t even know the pirateparty – so this is perfect advertisment!

we have a lot of funding to expect, and with the rather very conservative “farmer’s party” CDU in power the people will come running for pirates in four years time..

Wait, what? So, if the pirate party has the same ideology as musicians, writers, and moviemakers, wouldn’t that mean that they are trying to get people disconnected, or at least throttle their bandwidth, and sue people without any real evidence of “taking something-for-sale without proper payment”? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the complete opposite the pirate party stands for??

Now hold on, whoever said the majority of musicians have the same stance as Lily Allen?
And please don’t use the “common sense” argument, common sense is often wrong.

Also they managed to become 6 largest party even befor the npd (national democratic partie – the rightwing nsdap follow up)and other long running parties.

So the 2% are quit a great success.

Oh, STFU. (bitchslaps RM)

Given this is a strongly pro-file sharing site, RM plays a useful (if frequently abused) role as Devil’s advocate.

Democracy is about views being heard, not that they are automatically taken seriously.

The mass media is likely to have an anti-file sharing bias, so having the PP funded will get a more open debate about what represents an acceptable balance between our individual privacy and rights, and a means of sustaining the music & film industry.