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German MP jumps ship for Pirate Party
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| A German MP has quit the Social Democrats in protest at the country's
| approval of controversial laws to crack down on child porn, and pledged his
| support for the Pirate Party.
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| Joerg Tauss's defection from one of Germany's ruling coalition partners means
| the Pirate Party - whose key policy demand is the right for computer users to
| swap content untrammeled by copyright laws - has two elected representatives.
| A Swede under the Pirate Party banner took a seat in the European parliament
| elections earlier this month.*
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/german_mp_pirate/
German Elected Official Switches Parties To The Pirate Party
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090622/0145065312.shtml
Recent:
The Pirate Party
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| The Pirate Party has a constructive and reasoned proposal for an alternative
| to pharmaceutical patents. It would not only solve these problems, but also
| give more money to pharmaceutical research, while still cutting public
| spending on medicines in half. This is something we would like to discuss on
| a European level.
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| Patents in other areas range from the morally repulsive (like patents on
| living organisms) through the seriously harmful (patents on software and
| business methods) to the merely pointless (patents in the mature
| manufacturing industries).
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| Europe has all to gain and nothing to lose by abolishing patents outright. If
| we lead, the rest of the world will eventually follow.
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http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
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