Swedish Pirate Party intent on running the Pirate Bay from Parliament
You may remember that, back in May of this year, the Swedish Pirate Party became the new ISP of the Pirate Bay. That alone was not only surprising, but proved to be politically spectacular in the rawest sense of the word. Now the Pirate Party wants to take their stand even further, and plans to use a section of the Swedish Constitution to allow them to host the seemingly indefatigable TPB from inside Parliament.
The Party announced their plan in a blog post at their official site on Friday. They state that while there shouldn't be a need for such drastic action, that hosting the torrent site from within the walls of Swedish Parliament would carry "an important symbolic value." There's not much doubt that they're right about symbolism there.
The Party references a section of the Swedish Constitution that protects MP's from prosecution if they're acting in accordance with their political mandate. In this case, hosting the Pirate Bay would not only fall under that wide umbrella, but would also provide a measure of immunity that would be much harder to crack than ever before.
Read more...http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/03/pirate-party-to-host-pirate-bay-swedish-parliament/
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