This week on London Real we have Rick Falkink of the Swedish Pirate Party.

As long as you follow the rules you will always be at best number two.

The established politicians do not understand the digital environment.

The big problem today for a lot of creators, for a lot of artists is not piracy, it's obscurity.

Hollywood is not in trouble.

They're posting record profits year over year over year.

We are fighting for things like the right to express yourself without being tracked.

You can see a lot of overlap between

party enthusiasts and Bitcoin enthusiasts.

They do not understand the internet, they do not understand that civil liberties need to be safeguarded more than ever.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you and then you win.

That's very, very accurate.

London Real presents Rick Falkink Pirate Party. Microsoft were absolutely terrified when they didn't see Windows 8 shared on

Power Bay at all.

Happy New Year and welcome back to London Real.

It's 2014. I hope you all have your New Year's resolutions in place.

It's going to be a very big year. I got a funny feeling and hopefully you've got a few of your goals laid out for you to make

sure you get the most out of it. We are back with a gentleman by the name of Rick Falkinge.

And for all you Swedish out there,

I hope I got the pronunciation right.

I properly butcher it during this interview

in the beginning, so you'll see that that he is the founder of the Swedish pirate party and you might know the pirate party now because they have a major representation in Germany and a variety of other European countries but at the time they were the first and it was a party from what I understand was was founded on you know internet freedoms piracy and then was later loosely associated with the Pirate Bay, which if you're a

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