Just joined the Danish pirate party

Posted on | May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just joined the Danish pirate party, Piratpartiet, an equivalant to the Swedish pirate party, which has now grown to more than 44,000 members, fuelled especially by the so-called ‘spectrial‘-verdict (The Pirate Bay trial in which they were found guilty of assisting copyright infringement).

While the Danish party is still relatively small (I believe they have around 1,400 members as of yesterday), the Swedish pirate party has within three weeks grown immensely, making it the third largest political party in Sweden, succeeded only by Social Democratic Party and the Moderate Party – although at current growth rate, the pirate party will most likely overtake the latter in near future and move into second place. The Swedish pirate party is hoping to obtain one or more seats in the European Parliament at the election on June 6.

Both the Swedish and the Danish pirate parties share a principle program (the Danish program is a translated version of the Swedish, with only a few adjustments to fit into Danish law) and is dedicated solely to engaging in issues concerning the protection of integrity and privacy, criticism of current copyright and patent legislation and the free movement of culture and knowledge. Thus, to ensure unity and consent among all its members, despite their general political stance, the party will refrain from participating in any political issue that is not related to these abovementioned issues.

Visit the Danish pirate party website here (in Danish) – and the Swedish here (mostly in Swedish).

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