Swedish party favours piracy
June 11, 2008 Web User
Sweden, one of the first countries in the world to implement a welfare state,
could make another first if it legalises internet piracy. The Left Party of
Sweden, or Vänsterpartiet, passed a motion on sharing copyrighted material
over the internet, otherwise known as piracy, at its annual congress last
weekend.
Although the Left Party is not in government, by voting in
favour of the motion to upload and download copyrighted material for
non-commercial purposes it shows that some Swedes are prepared to think
differently than lawmakers elsewhere.
In a statement released after the motion was passed, the Left Party said: "To
many of us in the Left Party, file-sharing is something positive in the same
obvious way that public libraries are."
Sweden is home to the infamous The Pirate Bay website, a peer-to-peer (P2P)
network which facilitates the uploading and downloading of material. It is
also the bane of record labels all over the world. The Pirate Bay recently
entered the top 100 of most visited websites in the world.
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