Pirate Party Banned From German Site That 'Pirated' Facebook

from the funny-that... dept

Fri, May 1st 2009 4:53pm — Mike Masnick

A bunch of folks have sent in the story on TorrentFreak about how the German social networking site, StudiVZ, has refused to allow The Pirate Party to create a campaign site, despite setting up campaign groups for every other political party campaigning for office. Chances are that this is just a screwup, where someone at StudiVZ was unfamiliar with the fact that The Pirate Party is a legitimate political party. However, what seems exceptionally ironic is the fact that StudiVZ is involved in a long and ongoing lawsuit with Facebook for copying Facebook's look and feel. Not only that, but StudiVZ's founder "freely admits that he took some of the basic ideas of Facebook and simply improved them." Thus, in the parlance of copyright maximalists, StudiVZ "pirated" Facebook. And, yet, now, it's shut down The Pirate Party's own site.

Filed Under: germany, pirate party
Companies: facebook, studivz

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Red Beard, 1 May 2009 @ 6:58pm

AAR MATEY
Aar them there swashbucklers don't need a site until they get their plank set on a solid deck. I say run 'em through with the cutlass...aar..
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Anonymous Coward, 1 May 2009 @ 7:38pm

ha..ha...suck my balls!!!!
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Tgeigs, 3 May 2009 @ 4:29am

Come on
This is GERMANY! What else do you expect? They are just going after the "software pirates" now because the world gave them a beat down when they tried to go after the "Jesus pirates". Bad innocent Jewish people! Stop stealing all our Jesus.
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