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06/17/2009 02:31:08 AM · #1 |
"Sweden's Pirate Party, riding a wave of discontent among voters who want a more unregulated internet, has won a seat in the European Parliament, according to early results from Sunday.
The Pirate Party captured 7.1 per cent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot, good for at least one of the 18 seats Sweden holds in the 785-seat European Parliament."
//www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/09/pirate-party-sweden-europe-parliament.html
What's everyone's opinion on this?
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06/17/2009 02:34:20 AM · #2 |
| I wonder how many Ninjas voted? :P |
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06/17/2009 08:29:16 AM · #3 |
And the most interesting bit of all is that they are popular because of the conviction. If the pirate bay was never taken to court in the first place, most people would never have heard of the Pirate Party.
It definitely feels like people are pushing back against the movie / record industrys now, and every move they try to make to hold onto their current way of doing business is putting them in a much worse position.
And yet the huge irony is, companies that were fast to change their business model to embrace the Internet are doing great! Look at Apples iTunes Store, audible.com, etc, they're not doing too badly at all.
I guess some industries are too big, heavy and full of fat cats to change. They should get together with the newspaper industry and grumble about how things aren't like they used to be. |
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