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Avast, me hearties! Eyepatches and peg legs have swept ashore in Prague and Paris as new political pirates hope to drink grog and make scurvy copyright landlubbers walk the plank.
(Editor’s note: apologies for the embarrassing pirate prose. We have tossed the Orbiting HQ copy of Treasure Island out an airlock and hope that solves the problem.)
New pirate parties began in both France and the Czech Republic this month after Sweden’s original Piratpartiet scored a major victory in European elections and saw one of its members shuffle off to Strasbourg to join the European Parliament.
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Better if they find a job.