Real pirates attack ships and murder people at sea (still do). “Pirates” copy information. To label them thus is so ridiculous it is not even insulting. It’s laughable.

There is only one kind of pirate that is less ridiculous to compare the filesharers to, and that is the kind romanticized in movies today: Unruly, gutsy, egalitarian, anarchic, yet with the kind streak necessary for movie antiheroes. (Ironically, Disney showed this kind of pirate in a hopeless underdog struggle against a vast, tyrannical trade empire.) This pseudo-pirate, who does not harm a fly, who steals from the rich and whose greatest ambition is the freedom to sail into the sunset, is the closest “pirates” will get to filesharers.

There is no shame in taking an epithet your opponents have given you, reinterpreting and making it your own. Consider the donkey of the US democratic party.

Set the sails! Yarrrr!

That’s actually true in a way. When successfully raided a ship the wounded usually got more of the loot then the others in the crew. Kind of like an insurance. Pirates also had the first democracy, voting for a captain and quartermaster, that being the most capable according to the crew. A lot of the pirates (that being during 16th-18th century) were also former slaves (usually saved by pirates), merchants, crew from military vessels and privateers that got tired of the mistreatment from their superiors or the East India Company.

This is probably the reason they picked Pirate Party as a name. Standing for true democracy, share alike and treat each others fair (except for those looking for exploiting others. They’ll walk the plank). Not to plunder, rape, kill and cause mayhem wherever they go.

Anyway the EU is a joke. Laughing my ass off when someone praise it.

They’ve already paid 1200/year for all you can eat Internet (unlimited) only to say fat people aren’t welcome (throttling, capping, etc)

Pirate Party, I wish you the best.

But like how Napster went viral, turning into web based bit torrent tech spawning thousands of p2p websites instead of a single point of failure (one Napster server shut down = death of music sharing)

…the same shall most likely be true for NEW political parties.

I’d rather vote an Open Source party, transparent /w all they do for their representatives as the main platform, fixing copywrong is 1 out of 100 MAIN topics needing reform/upgrades.

I push for daily voting on my 15 dollar Linux tribute website:
http://www.opensourceg.com

Voting every 5 YEARS is not enough.
Voting alongside our “leaders” will give VALUABLE stats for future elections.

Like Napster, the power should be distributed more, say to 7 billion people instead of 300ish American senators.

Also guests, visitors, and illegal Mexican workers should also have an online vote to shape policy (imo). Should be counted even if separated for civil voting tallies.

http://www.opensourceg.com
Sure as hell worked for Linux! :)