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Aug 6 2008, Hollan

In 2006, for the first time in history, Pirates entered world politics in a big way. With the success of the Bit-torrent tracker The Pirate Bay.org, also based in Sweden, the Pirate Party became an official party in Swedish politics. Since then, the...

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