Two new parties performed particularly well: Bright Future, which won six seats, and the Pirate party, with three.
This year, the Pirate Party of Giessen is maintaining that it isn't organizing an official protest.
The international film industry, on the other hand, is less than thrilled with the Pirate Party's objectives.
Mr Taylor has requested that the Pirate Party UK respond to the BPI's letter by 6 December.
According to polls, nearly one in five Swedes under the age of 30 voted for The Pirate Party.
Mr Taylor argued that the Pirate Party UK's arguments to support the proxy were a "complete red herring".
Since launching the proxy, the Pirate Party UK's website has rocketed in popularity.
So far, the Pirate Party, which made its debut during the Berlin state election last September, seems to have a singular focus on the interne.
One can only imagine the amount of coalition wrangling during the next federal election with yet another political party on the scene -- the Pirate Party.
The rise of the Pirate Party, which is now in four state legislatures, makes it far harder for the SPD and Greens to form a coalition.
It could be a big boost to the Pirate Party elsewhere, particularly in countries with proportional representation rather than a single-member, district-based system which favors larger parties.
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The Pirate Party UK - which campaigns for the legalisation of non-commercial file sharing - said the passage of the bill marked "a sombre day for Britain's digital future".
The activists had been meeting for months on a German wiki dedicated to re-creating the efforts of like-minded activists in Sweden, who had recently formed a political party known as the Pirate Party.
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It is very important that the protest is not associated with the pirate party or any of its members, because that would make it a political dummy action that helps members of parties distinguish themselves.
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These ranged from the eccentric United Kingdom Independence Party and Geert Wilders's Freedom Party in the Netherlands, which both came second in their national polls, to Hungary's anti-gypsy Jobbik party and the Pirate Party in Sweden.
The Pirate Party UK - a political group that campaigns for an "open" internet - launched a proxy service to allow UK users to circumvent the block of The Pirate Bay, but that too was closed following legal threats from the BPI.
About an hour north of Frankfurt, in the small university town of Giessen, the local branch of the antiestablishment Pirate Party has taken the Tanzverbot on as a major issue.
But a representative of the UK Pirate Party - a political group that opposes the bans - told BBC News that more proxy sites had been made available "within minutes" of BT's move.
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The upstart Pirate Party, champions of internet freedom and privacy, got nearly five times that and will take the FDP's place in the city legislature.
Loz Kaye, the leader of Pirate Party UK, which had offered UK users a workaround for the ban on The Pirate Bay, said the BPI was "out of control".
That is one reason why he is likely to win re-election. (The main suspense involves the Greens, which could replace the ex-communist Left Party as Mr Wowereit's coalition partner, and the open-source-inspired Pirate Party, which might enter a German state legislature for the first time.) But the straddle is becoming harder.
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"There's a very strong community pressure that you're not able to criticize the church, " said Christian Oechler, a Pirate Party leader and one of the organizers.
Pirate Party UK - which is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay - said it created the proxy website as an act of "freedom of expression" and to support "the right to share information and ideas without interference and that censorship is never the right answer".
In 2009, Swedish voters elected two Pirate Party members to the European Parliament.
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As voters elsewhere clock the three Icelandic MPs, they may see a Pirate Party vote less as a political statement, and more as a realistic option.
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It is Chancellor Merkel's liberal partners who have suffered most in the polls in the past few months, while the Social Democrats have gained (plus a new "pirate" party, dedicated to internet freedom, who have been winning an astonishing 8% of votes cast in recent polls).
Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.
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According to web metrics firm Alexa, the party's site was ranked 1, 943 in the UK prior to the Pirate Bay ban.
Under Article 110 of the convention a warship has first to send an officer-led party to board a suspected pirate ship to verify any suspicions.
Pirate Party UK, a political group, has set up a proxy that can be used to reach the piracy site even though it has been blocked by the UK courts.
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