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By Peter Anthony Tariche at 6:55AM

Jul 3, 2010

Swedish Pirate Party Hosting Pirate Bay inside Parliament

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.

The Pirate Party is best known for its copyright activism. Roderick T. Long has long argued copyright is an infringement on freedom of speech; many other Austrians share this perspective as well.

Hayek wrote in The Intellectuals and Socialism, "It would be interesting to discover how far a seriously critical view of the benefits to society of the law of copyright ... would have a chance of being publicly stated in a society in which the channels of expression are so largely controlled by people who have a vested interest in the existing situation."

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By Brian Beyer at 5:37PM

Jul 31, 2009

Sweden, Here We Come!

With the nationalization of banks, auto companies, and just about anything the government deems too big to fail, it isn't far fetched to say that we're on our way to a Swedish style, heavily mixed economy. That comparison just became so much more real as Congress is expected to pass a bill which would give them the power to dictate the pay and bonuses of employees at companies with more than $1 billion in assets.

This is intended to "discourage excessive risk taking" according to Barney Frank (does he forget his cronies at Fannie and Freddy?). It was along these same lines that Sweden recently banned bonuses at state run companies in March.

If Frank was serious about discouraging excessive risk taking, he and Congress would take a pay cut. An enormous one at that.