THRASHER2
08-15-2007, 03:40 AM
Pro-piracy politician proffers his worldview
Rickard Falkvinge doesn't exactly look like a pirate king.
http://news.com.com/i/ne/pg/fd_2007/070810_pirate_party_120x90.jpg
Dressed in a gray suit and red satin shirt, his look suggests hip, young, European politician. But the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party could represent a very serious threat to the music and movie industries.
Falkvinge is a budding politician, a Microsoft-trained technologist and bitter foe of U.S. copyright law. Last year, he founded the party that surprised many when it amassed enough votes to become one of the country's top 10 political groups. (There are nearly 40 in Sweden.)
The organization failed to win enough support, however, to gain membership in the country's parliament and is now raising money for elections in 2009 and 2010. The party's platform is a promise to thwart U.S. attempts to enforce copyright law on Swedish soil.
Link (http://news.com.com/Pro-piracy+politician+proffers+his+worldview/2100-1028_3-6201976.html?tag=nefd.pop)
Rickard Falkvinge doesn't exactly look like a pirate king.
http://news.com.com/i/ne/pg/fd_2007/070810_pirate_party_120x90.jpg
Dressed in a gray suit and red satin shirt, his look suggests hip, young, European politician. But the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party could represent a very serious threat to the music and movie industries.
Falkvinge is a budding politician, a Microsoft-trained technologist and bitter foe of U.S. copyright law. Last year, he founded the party that surprised many when it amassed enough votes to become one of the country's top 10 political groups. (There are nearly 40 in Sweden.)
The organization failed to win enough support, however, to gain membership in the country's parliament and is now raising money for elections in 2009 and 2010. The party's platform is a promise to thwart U.S. attempts to enforce copyright law on Swedish soil.
Link (http://news.com.com/Pro-piracy+politician+proffers+his+worldview/2100-1028_3-6201976.html?tag=nefd.pop)