I notes with wry amusement that the Swedish Pirate Party has - to every one's astonishment - won a seat in the European Parliament. This is going to throw a major spanner in the works of the regulators .
The Pirate Party are the er er political wing of the Pirate Bay website who advocate Internet file sharing (note: they are NOT file sharers themselves but provide tools for searching for such) who were recently convicted by Swedish courts - 1 year in slammer and ordered to pay £2.5m....
It seems that although they are most famous for their file sharing activities, they stood on a platform which contested Swedish surveillance laws which allow the authorities to monitor telephone, Internet and email traffic. They should be at home in the European Parliament then ......
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