Pirate Party

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• Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde to run for EU parliament

  Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014.

• Pirate Bay quits Sweden to relieve pressure on bandwidth provider

  The Pirate Bay has opened two new gateways to its internal network in order to shield its current Internet provider, the Swedish Pirate Party, which had been threatened with legal action if it did not stop providing Internet access to the torrent sea...

• Swedish Pirate Party faces legal action for providing Internet access to Pirate Bay

  The Swedish Pirate Party faces a lawsuit if it does not stop providing Internet access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site by next Tuesday.

• German police seize Pirate Party servers

  Police in Germany have confiscated servers belonging to the Pirate Party as part of a criminal investigation.

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  Pirate Party can’t contest Federal election

  The Australian wing of the libertarian digital rights group the Pirate Party has had to abandon its stated aim of contesting the imminent Federal Election due to election regulations.

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  Pirate Party finds France fertile territory

  Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may ye...

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  Sweden's Pirate Party sets sail for Brussels

  The Pirate Party, a party campaigning for online civil rights, has won at least one seat in the European Parliament, after obtaining 7.1 percent of the votes in elections in Sweden.