[patio11]

This sounds like a Monty Python sketch waiting to happen. "But you've got a bloody black flag!" "Its the flag of fighting the patent system!" "And you want to host torrents out of Parliament!" "They're personal integrity torrents!" "And movies!" "Doubtlessly movies about personal integrity!"

[Dementati]

The whole pirate theme is intended as humour, and a lot of us love Monty Python. The point of defending the Pirate Bay is that it is in fact not the site itself but it's users that distribute files with copyright-protected content. The Pirate Bay is a neutral medium.

[tzs]

Earlier you said that an important point of the Pirate Party is supporting privacy. Yet the Pirate Bay goes out of its way to be against privacy, yet you defend them too. For example, if someone steals someone personal and intimate photos and makes them available via a torrent, and the person whose privacy is thus being massively invaded asks TPB to please stop indexing that torrent--TPB will mock them in public, calling more attention to the availability of the invasive photos.

That's far beyond being neutral. That's condoning and encouraging privacy violations, and they are doing it to draw hits for advertising.

[maggit]

Is the first sentence in the linked article also intended as humour? "The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are (...)"

The Swedish Pirate Party is indeed trying to reform copyright. Of course, you might argue that they are doing other things as well, so they are not "dedicated" to anti-copyright. But you can't deny that this is one of the party's policies.

[Dementati]

Of course, the party also wants to -modify- copyright law, but that's a different point. I did not intend to summarize party policy with my previous comment.