Pirate Party support soars with legal file sharing policy

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Friday 01 May 2009 10:25 BST
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A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalising internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June.

The poll published yesterday in the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter shows the Pirate Party's backing has surged after a court verdict against The Pirate Bay file-sharing site.

Four men behind The Pirate Bay were convicted this month of copyright violations and sentenced to a year in prison.

The survey of about 1,500 people shows 5.1 per cent of Swedish voters support the Pirate Party. Four per cent is the minimum for a seat in the European Parliament. The error margin was 1.8 percentage points.

The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 with the aim of legalising non-commercial file-sharing of music and films on the internet.

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