Pirate Party UK

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/ 24/filesharing-political-party

A breath of fresh air in British politics, or an insult to the intelligence of our youth?

[Gromit]

File-sharing encourages copyright infringement which is stealing.

While film and music companies are partly to blame for this, it is still appealing to people's dishonesty.

I hope this party fail just as I would hope the 'don't pay your TV license Party' would fail.

[rov1200]

I would assume that even if they attracted a sizeable youth vote nothin would change in the eyes of the law. They would still get hefty fines of up to �50,000 for illegal downloading.