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I like RMS view on piracy : "attacking ships is very bad, but helping your friends and your neighbours is good"

The Pirate Party uses that term in a humorous way. It all started as a joke after the Pirate Bay was attacked in a court of law.



If you're referring to the raid of TPB[1], it actually ocurred almost 6 months after the Pirate Party was founded[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_raid [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_%28Sweden%29#Histo...


How strange, I remember distinctly reading that it was a legal action (not the raid) that gave the idea to the founders to make a political party but I don't manage to find references.




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