Swedish Pirate Party leader quits due to boredom
Sucks to be a freetard
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The founder and chairman of the Pirate Party, Rickard Falkvinge, has quit after five years heading up the anti-copyright political vehicle, citing boredom as one of the reasons he decided to step down.
“There’s nothing left for me to learn. Everything ahead would be subtle variations of things I had already done,” he said in a blog post on 2 January.
“While one can say that this makes me professionally qualified to continue doing the same things, it also makes me bored doing the same things. When I’m not learning, I’m not living.”
Falkvinge said he was no longer having fun running the Swedish arm of the Pirate Party, which failed to secure a parliamentary seat in the country's general election last September, after it pulled in less than 1.4 per cent of the national vote.
“It was about a year ago I realised I was slowly beginning to stagnate, and while we’re far from fully there yet, I don’t want to go fully there, either,” admitted the party’s founder.
He will stay working as a “political evangelist” of the party mainly covering “keynote invitations” in Europe.
Falkvinge’s deputy, Anna Troberg, has taken over as the Pirate Party’s leader. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Don't understand how you can be anti-copyright?
Spot on GeorgeTuk. The same people who do not understand the need to copyright work and protect an individual's creativity are probably going to be storming in here and downvoting anything that slightly hints at being pro-copyright. They just don't get it.
If I could suggest one improvement to copyright it would be additional protection and advantages for individual creative artists, instead of protection for the publishers who pocket over 90% of the profit.
Bored
'He will stay working as a “political evangelist” of the party mainly covering “keynote invitations” in Europe.'
So he'll ditch the work and keep the jollies? Nice work if you can get it.
If it wasn't such shameful horsepucky I'd think about leading the UK's Pirate Party myself.
Not anti-copyright, but have downloaded
I've downloaded material that maybe I shouldn't have.
This is because the DRM on the legal downloads make it an inferior product. I think consumers should vote with their feet, and insist on legal downloads being DRM-free.
Oh, and I've worked on quite a few television shows and I'm a writer.
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