Their rating dropped?
s\quelled\swelled\ ?
I think thats what you mean anyway...
Two separate polls have today indicated that the Pirate Party could win at least one of Sweden's 18 seats in the European Parliament elections. Results aren't expected until Sunday, but surveys suggest that the anti-copyright, pro-filesharing party may have grabbed between six and eight per cent of the vote in Sweden. …
What sort of idiot votes for a single issue party, especially sending them to Europe? I dispare.
re: Romans party - he's a very nice bloke from Reading, mad as a fish, but very nice nontheless (my local libdem councillor knows him). He got 33 votes in the last local elections. Ave!
In monetary terms Sweden is the third biggest exporter of music in the World - and far outstrips pretty much everyone else in a per-capita measure, excepting perhaps Ireland.
It's not about copyright anyway, it's about civil rights - including not having to live your life in a perverse CCTV, phorm-snooping reality-show because of some makey-uppy "property" law.