Sweden Got a Pro-piracy party

From a news item in slashdot ,
"Tired of being called criminals, a group of Swedish filesharers have
started a new political party, The Piracy Party (Piratpartiet in
Swedish). The party wants to abolish all intellectual property laws,
reverse the data retention directive passed by the EU last month, and
protect privacy with new laws. The party expresses no opinion on other
subjects. The Piracy Party's webpage is so far only available in
Swedish, at piratpartiet.se The party's goal is to get into to the
parliament, which requires 4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes.
Elections are held in September"
Well for me I am not pro-piracy, I believe in intellectual property
rights, but believe in concepts of free speech and freedom to live and
behave as one desires. That means I don't support government
interference, and somebody telling me how I should I live or not live
my life.
It must also be kept in mind that piracy is the only way through many
in the third world can afford expensive softwares and books. You can
download softwares and even necessary books from IRC or some P2P
network more easily than you can even get them legally. Most books are
not even available in libraries of third world nations.
So the $100 dollar laptop (developed by MIT scientists) could not only
lessen the digital divide ,it may also give an opportunity to people
from third world nations to actually read good books.
I believe that the copyright laws are stringent and patents
/copyrights should expire in say 10 years so everyone could share the
amazing stuffs that gets into a developed country's market every year.
So this might be the right move towards this direction.