The upstart Pirate Party, champions of internet freedom and privacy, got nearly five times that and will take the FDP's place in the city legislature.
It is Chancellor Merkel's liberal partners who have suffered most in the polls in the past few months, while the Social Democrats have gained (plus a new "pirate" party, dedicated to internet freedom, who have been winning an astonishing 8% of votes cast in recent polls).
Copies of Halo:Reach are fast spreading throughout the Internet, fueled by torrent download sites like The Pirate Bay.
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Ms. Schaake recently re-tweeted a comment by an Egyptian who said the U.K. blocking the Pirate Bay made it harder to secure Internet freedoms in Egypt.
Just this week, the English High Court ordered six of the country's Internet service providers to block access to the Swedish site The Pirate Bay on the grounds that it induced its users to infringe copyright.
In the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) took action to the courts, obtaining a court order to force internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
It was that program that drew Kim Dotcom, the Internet entrepreneur accused by the U.S. of operating a website used to pirate half a billion dollars in entertainment, to relocate to the country.
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The plan then: to acquire a Canadian license to pirate U.S. television signals and redistribute them to Canadians over the Internet, as allowed under Canadian law.
According to the SF Gate, several Internet Service Providers will send as many as six electronic alerts to customers whose accounts are used to illegally pirate files.
According to music industry analysts, hundreds of thousands of Web users who frequent copyright-infringing file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy, have chosen to download In Rainbows illegally, distributing their contraband around the Internet just as they might with any other pirated album.
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