Kerstin Sjoden reports.

Activist Christian Engström looks more like a engineer than a buccaneer. But in June he'll be one of 20 candidates running for seats in the European Parliament under the skull-and-crossbones flag of the Swedish Pirate Party.

"If politicians want to prevent ordinary citizens from sharing files, they will constantly have to expand their ability to monitor," Engström said in a telephone interview. "It's necessary to reform the copyright legislation to ensure that citizens' right to privacy is respected."

Founded by copyright activists in early 2006, the Pirate Party believes people should be able to freely copy books or music for private use. The party is dedicated to radical reform of copyright law, abolition of the patent system and guaranteed online privacy rights. But despite an agenda near and dear to much of Sweden's youth, the party put in a dismal showing in the Swedish national election in 2006, winning only 0.63 percent of the votes.

But times have changed, says Engström. There's growing outrage in Sweden