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Pirates: jail or parliament? Popularity of the seizure

In Sweden, the court condemns the Pirate Bay for copyright infringement. But within hours of the Pirate Party gains 1800 new members. And you start to win the European parliament with over 20% of the vote.

Friday morning, the Stockholm District Court convicted for violation of the copyright controllers site The Pirate Bay , most point of reference for the practice of file sharing 'peer to peer' (P2P ). The three founders of the site, Fredrik Neij , 30, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and 24 years, 30 years, and their financier, Carl Lundström , 48, may have serve one year in prison and to pay € 2.7 million to reimburse the lost profits of the big record labels and film.

The four have reacted to the decision with his usual arrogance. Peter Sunde said on Twitter: "Do not worry, nothing will change for The Pirate Bay, either for ourselves or for download. It 's just a staging for the media. To appeal and we get rid . While on the site reads: " As in any good movie, the heroes lose first round, but just to get a win even more epic at the end." Since 2003, the site of the Bay allows 22 million users to share among themselves all kinds of files, including copyrighted not physically host the files and then rejects the charge of carrying out an illegal activity.

Five hours after the announcement of the award, the Piratpartiet ("Pirate Party"), born in 2006 in support of the site, registered 1800 new registrations, reaching 16,500. Led by Christian Engström, 49 years, the party has now exceeded the number of registered Greens and the Left, while a poll in December gave him 21% of the vote. Some observers believe that the echo aroused by the then ruling could have a boomerang effect. Considered by most as favorable to special interests, and contrary to the general, the sentence could indeed determine the prossime elezioni europee, una clamorosa vittoria del Partito Pirata, che da anni si batte per la libera circolazione del sapere e per la limitazione del diritto di proprietà sui beni immateriali.

(Fonte: Le Monde 1 , 2 )