Indeed a nice article about PP, well worth the time to read it through!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Nybergh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@nybergh.net">thomas@nybergh.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hufvudstadsbladet, the highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper<br>
in Finland (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufvudstadsbladet" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufvudstadsbladet</a> )<br>
published a pretty well thought out editorial on the pirate movement<br>
and Piraattipuolue, the Finnish party.<br>
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<a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/ledare/2009/8/31/d31383.php" target="_blank">http://www.hbl.fi/text/ledare/2009/8/31/d31383.php</a><br>
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Those of you who don't read Swedish may be interested in Google's<br>
almost coherent translation:<br>
<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbl.fi%2Ftext%2Fledare%2F2009%2F8%2F31%2Fd31383.php&sl=sv&tl=en" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbl.fi%2Ftext%2Fledare%2F2009%2F8%2F31%2Fd31383.php&sl=sv&tl=en</a><br>
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The name of the movement is pointed out as being odd, but the writer (<br>
<a href="http://erkki.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://erkki.wordpress.com</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/andelins" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/andelins</a> in Swedish)<br>
does seem to have accepted the the pirate parties' favorite concerns<br>
as legitimate in the context of the overwhelming growth of technology<br>
in everybody's daily lives. The Information Society vs. imaginary<br>
property struggle is also compared to earlier ideologies and previous<br>
conditions that caused interest for change.<br>
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The writer, Jan-Erik Andelin was previously the editor in chief of Ny<br>
Tid, a Finnish, Swedish-language and left leaning magazine covering<br>
general interest topics. Imho <a href="http://www.nytid.fi" target="_blank">http://www.nytid.fi</a> is a bookmark worthy<br>
source of interesting stuff for Swedish readers. No rss, though :(<br>
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<font color="#888888">Thomas Nybergh | <a href="mailto:thomas@nybergh.net">thomas@nybergh.net</a><br>
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