The Swedish Pirate Party that wants to legalise Internet filesharing and beef up web privacy scored a big victory Sunday by winning a European parliament seat. The Pirate Party won 7.1% of the votes, taking one of Sweden's 18 seats in the European parliament.
The party was founded in January 2006 and quickly attracted members angered by controversial laws adopted in Sweden that criminalised filesharing and authorised monitoring of emails. Its membership shot up after a Stockholm court on April 17 sentenced four Swedes to a year in jail for running one of the world's biggest filesharing sites, The Pirate Bay.
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