A rookie political party in Sweden, the Pirate Party, has pushed the everyday actions of thousands of ordinary people – downloading music and films from the internet – to the top of the political agenda, forcing established parties to come up with legal yet flirtatious offers to cyber pirates in the Nordic country.
In the national elections in Sweden on Sunday (17 September), the new party did not make the 4 percent vote threshold needed to get a seat in the Swedish parliament, but say...
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