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The hosting site MegaUpload was raided by police today, on orders by US federal authorities. MegaUpload's owner, New Zealand based Kim "Dotcom" Scmitz, and three associates were also arrested. The Swedish Pirate Party strongly condemns this action. - MegaUpload was well-known to act in accordance with the law, says Anna ...

Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the first Pirate Party, has been honored as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the magazine Foreign Policy. The magazine, which specializes in international high-level politics, presents the award annually to the thinkers whose ideas shape our future the most. Other people on this year's list ...

När vallokalsundersökningen presenterats i Berlin står det klart att det tyska Piratpartiet tagit plats i delstatsparlamentet. Piratpartiet får 8,5 procent i den undersökningen, och är därmed klart över den tyska femprocentsspärren. -- Taket lyfte hos Piratenpartei här i Berlin när undersökningen presenterades, säger Rick Falkvinge som är på plats. Stämningen är ...

The Swedish Pirate Party has long claimed that the copyright industry's statistics about lost revenue are made up. However, the party has discovered that the sums are real and significant. With the saved funds, the party has plans for hiring and buying a vacation resort. -- I'm happy to announce that ...

Today, several servers belonging to the Swedish Pirate Party have been the target of so-called DDoS attacks. The attacks began early morning at 3 AM, after the party had set up a Swedish mirror copy of the WikiLeaks website. The party's reason for doing so is that WikiLeaks, whose leaks ...

Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström were convicted today in the Stockholm Court of Appeals for their part in operating The Pirate Bay, which is a search engine for torrent files and one of Sweden's most recognized brands. -- This was a political trial from the start and it must ...

This is a preparatory press release about The Pirate Bay verdict today Friday at 2pm Stockholm Time. The Appeals Court in Stockholm will hand down its verdict in the case against two of the people previously behind The Pirate Bay, plus Carl Lundström, today at 2pm Stockholm time. The Pirate Party ...

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