Pirate Party finds downloading of copyrighted material in House of Commons

Shawn Vulliez is the vice-president of the Pirate Party of Canada, a ragtag bunch of politically engaged computer geeks who believe that Internet copyright laws should be minimal and information sharing encouraged on the Web. The Pirates recently tracked downloads in the House of Commons and discovered that pirating copyrighted material — including Adele, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and, especially popular, Maroon 5 — is common practice among our politicos.