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Founded and most active in Sweden, The Piratpartiet exists to reform copyright and intellectual property reform laws and strengthen the right to privacy on the Internet and in the offline world.
The party is connected the PiratbyrĂ„n, or “Bureau of Piracy”, the intellectual properties reform group which oroginally founded the BitTorrent tracker Pirate Bay.
As of January, the Pirate Party has over 9300 members in Sweden making it the largest political party without representation in the Swedish Government, capturing a significant percentage on the vote in the 2006 election. They have also credited with causing other, more mainstream parties in Sweden, including the Greens, to reform their official positions on intellectual property law. Outside of Sweden, pirate parties have been started in several countries, including Spain, Austria and Germany, the United States, the UK, Australia, France, Poland, Italy, Russia, and Belgium.






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