The swedish Pirate Party has had an explosive growth in members during this weekend after the Pirate Bay guilty verdict.  It is up to 30.982 registered members as I write this and is Sweden’s fourth biggest party by that count, well on their way of overtaking the third at 47.866 members.

Also related, the Norwegian Pirate Party makes another start attempt with what has to be the worst domain registration choice for a political party ever:  http://www.piratpartiet.biz.  Biz??  Still, Norway needs a serious a debate about this topic as the Swedes are having so I hope they do well. Explosive pirate party