A Swedish party that wants to legalise
Internet filesharing and beef up web privacy scored a big victory
Sunday by winning a European parliament seat, results showed. The
Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of votes, taking one of Sweden’s 18 seats
in the European parliament, with ballots in 5,659 constituencies out of
5,664 counted. "Privacy issues and civil liberties are
important to people and they demonstrated that clearly when they voted
today," one of the party’s candidates, Anna Troberg, told Swedish
television on Sunday. -[source]
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