Swedes backing Pirate Party

the Pirate Party is Sweden's third largest party - http://www.piratpartiet.se/storlek.

They know they are wrong, yet they try their best to make it look right.

A crime is a crime.

What ever happened to the day you would rip something off and keep it a secret and not tell the world+dog about it?

I am getting tired of this Pirate bay crap.

No one has the right to steal.

It doesn't matter if its from the rich or from the poor.

wrong is wrong.

It doesn't matter if you take a persons PC, or take software. Its all the same.

People who take software bennifit from it. Sites that promote bittorrents bennifit from it (traffic and adds revenue).

Instead of stealing software, why not put your energy into something usefull like developing programs for linux that is free.

We don't have the right to steal, but we do have the right to make alternative solutions available to use to help address the problem with some people just being poor bumbs without money.

I support linux. I don't support criminals, especially ones with big egos thinking they are allowed what they are doing.

WHat the hell? Is everyone a cheap skate these days?

Cant they aford $20 for a cd? Man people need to get jobs + lifes.

Most sites provide a way to sample music before buying it. And most software provides trials. So people have no excuse to say 'i needed to try it first'.

Hitler thought he had a right to kill people. Only him getting put out of his missery fixed his problem. He had extream justifications for his actions. But we all know he was a retard that thought what he was doing was right.

People need to pay more attention to the 10 commandments a little bit more.

'Thal shal not steal'

Unless your brain dead, you will agree with this rule.

No one wants to be stolen from. It sucks. Happened to me a few times.
So why do it to others?

You know not all companies selling software are big. Most companies are small companies and need to sell products to say alive or employ people.

You know what. If I can't aford to buy software, I don't use it then. That is my way to protest.

Sometimes I even go as far as creating my own custom software to do what I need.

If more of us just created software that did what we needed and shared that software with the community, then that would be our way to protest agains the rich corporations and a good way to better computing at the same time.

I see this as more of whats happening in the background. Changing the laws and giving Corporations more rights then individuals. Its really about control of the internet, using propaganda and misinformation by the powers that be. We need people to be elected that can stick with their principals and not give in to greed and selfishness. It gets pretty hard and tempting when a multibillion dollar Corporation bribes you with unlimited wealth for the rest of your life just to vote yes to their agendas. Ps Multibillion is still not in the built in dictionary.

That's good. Hopefully we will have some knowledgeable guys in the EU parliament that will really defend our rights as free internet users that don't give up their will the manipulating TV media. I’m tired of party members that are in fact lobbyists for the big companies that pay them instead of defending the rights of the people that voted them in place.
What’s wrong with these guys?! The internet seems not to be the most evil invention for all the governments in the world. They all pass laws that limit its users. Back in the day, there were lots of voices shouting the gospel of Hollywood's apocalypse by VHS or music by K7 . The piracy was huge back then and the law was much more permissible if not inexistent. Nobody died! The sales were high, the business was good. What about now?! Well, the business is 10 times better, the revenues and profits are much higher. The music is worse .. :) But they are greedy. They want MUCH more money. They are not talking about bankruptcy in the movies business and the music industry. They are only talking about the money they COULD have pocketed IF there would have been no piracy. Well piracy exists and I think that if you could borrow a book from your friend, you should be able the borrow a movie. If you could copy a book BY HAND just to distribute it , just because you like it and you want your people to read it (even 500 years ago) , you should be able to SEE a movie and listen to a song and IF you like it enough and respect the author's talent , you WILL buy it. How many time did you read a book borrowed from a friend and then, having made an extraordinary impression on yourself, you buy it to have it in your own library and to be able to read it any day and you would even buy and offer it as a gift to your friends. There would be another thesis about the fact that ONLY really good art (book, music or film) deserves to be sold for 10 ~ 20$ a piece and the less POPULAR (not less worthy) should sell for less than that. But now, it's something like a lottery: they're all priced the same when launched, but there's a HUGE difference between a Denzel Washington movie and a David Hasellhoff one ... Want to know how good it is? Then play the lottery , buy them both only to realize in the end that one is 100 times more valuable than the other and the other isn't even worth the time.

It's only greed, they have huge piles of money and they want more even if it's not worth it al the time. We should be allowed to weigh and decide.

YES, if there's a guy SELLING pirated content, making money over something it's not his, he should go to jail as this is theft.

But jailing the torrent sites' administrators that don’t make any money from the multimedia content shared !?!? That's crazy . And ... NO ... the money from the ADVERTISEMENTS on the torrent sites are not a direct consequence of the torrent contents but they are the reward for the site's administrators for the public information service they do by helping us evaluate the shared content.

Complicated ethics but some things are obvious :

1)The companies are only guided by greed;
2)The business is much better and the money are hundreds of times more;
3)But they obviously want more money for less work as in our days there's much less talent and much more playback involved;

and on , and on ...

The laws that are being passed in the last years are scary : The Patriot/Idiot Act in USA ; The Big Brother Act in the EU (all phone calls, SMS ,emails ,IMs etc. are being recorded and stored for 6 months) ... voted with unanimity without any public debate in Romania ... When will there be a limit too this crazy machine that takes us back in Orwell's "1984" ?!?! Why are they so interested in our private communications that are guaranteed by The Constitution (at least in Romania). If Sweden is unable to make the first step to put an end to this, I’m afraid that nobody will

So it seems that once again History repeats itself.
Big Media tries to put down little dog with anything that works, legal or not, and guess what ? The People globally do not appreciate the act and turn to supporting the little dog.
This scenario has been so rehashed Hollywood doesn't even use it anymore.
When will they get a clue ?

That's not the only thing that rocks over there - their pornography is awesome too!

Bye. Jon.

Sweeds Rule !!!
And also they rock !!!
I'm singing along on a Beavis and Butthead videoclip .

Actually, a 1.8% margin of error is quite low for a scientifically valid survey. 1500 is a good sample size. You're conflating the *results* of the survey with the MoE and that is not a valid criticism.

wtf? Who did the survey a 10yo?