Swedish Party “Pirate Bay”, advocating for the legalization of copyright infringement, won one seat in European Parliament on the basis of Europian Sunday vote, reported Agence France-Presse.

According to the counting of the votes from nearly all polling stations in Sweden, “pirate” party gained 7.1%, which ensures Sweden one of the 18 allocated seats in the European Parliament.

Translated from russian: “The issue of privacy and civil liberties is important for people, and they clearly demonstrated that today, during the vote” – says a local broadcast channel representative “pirate bay” Anna Troberg (Anna Troberg).

The remaining 17 seats were divided between the ruling conservative coalition, which includes the Moderate Coalition Party, headed by the Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Center Party, the People’s Party and the Christian Democratic Party (nine seats) and the opposition coalition comprising the Social Democratic Party , the Green Party and Left Party (eight seats).

Party Pirate Bay, holding the well-known torrent-trackers, which have been the cause of the trials, was founded in January 2006 and immediately attracted the attention of people perturbed mixed Swedish laws that prohibit the file and include the ability to view e-mails of global users network.

In mid-April this year, the Stockholm court sentenced the four founders and owners of Pirate Bay tracker for one year in prison each and payment of material damage amounting to a total of 30 million crowns (about three million euros).
They are – Peter Sanda, Gottfried Svartholm and Fredrik Neydzh – site sponsors – as well as Carl Lyundstrem support site.

We remind you that despite all fuss – Pirate Bay continues.

This is free torrent tracker (an opportunity to rock without registration), which is “to go” is also the largest in the world. Interface translated into all major world languages.

Rick Falkvinge (left), leader of pirate party:
- We have the third-largest party in Sweden

http://thepiratebay.org/

http://www.dn.se/webbtv/nyheter/riksdagen-nasta-for-pp-1.886598