Abstract
Pirate parties are a phenomenon that has existed formally for almost fifteen years. This group of parties corresponds very well programmatically to the much broader concept of post-material values, which was formulated several decades earlier.
Issues of intellectual property, privacy and data security, Internet freedom or a transparent political system are significant for Pirate parties as well as for life in the twenty-first century. Although the Pirate movement has its roots in Sweden, it has succeeded in establishing itself in other European countries as well.
This study aims to map the foundations of the Pirate movement, successful examples of Pirate parties, but also sociological aspects of the activities of this type of parties. The success of the Pirate movement is conditional not only on the salience of certain issues in the public debate but also on what can be identified as a crisis of politics.