2012 September | PirateTimes – Part 2
Interview with Dirk Poot, first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party
Dirk Poot was the first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party for the past parliamentary elections on 12 September 2012. He is the press spokesperson and a member of the Board of PPNL. Even though the Pirates did not make…
Neither left nor right – an essay on Pirate politics
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is one of the most well known Marxist slogans and it is also how Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) is being used and produced. Is FLOSS communist? In…
Julia Schramm and DMCA Takedowns – a Pirate and Her Copyright
Julia Schramm, member of the national board of the Pirate Party Germany, published a book which came out a few days ago. Since she is a publicist, this should not have come as a surprise. Julia announced the book well…
PirateCon – the PPUK conference
The Pirate Party UK had a lot on their plate for their conference last weekend. On Saturday, around 15 pirates enjoyed a sightseeing tour with lots of socialising and had the opportunity to visit a gig the conference organizers arranged…
What is #piratepartyusa?
In the early hours of August 18, two images started making the rounds on Facebook, Twitter, and other parts of the Internet. The two images were both part of the same advertisement found in the then-latest issue of Adbusters, a…
Who Votes For Pirates?
German study on voting behaviour gives insights on Pirates’ target demographic Who is likely to vote Pirate? Previously, there have been mostly educated guesses about the target demographic of the Pirates, tending to name young technology affiniados. A recent representative…
Plastic Pirates Putin to Prison
One more attempt was made to get hold of the cat. The lasso was thrown, it caught on one of the candles, the chandelier fell down. (Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita) We heard that after failing to arrest the cat…
The Pirate spirit detouring around politicians and stereotypes
“Greece, what is really happening?” was the subject of the meeting of German and Greek Pirates, just 2 days before the German Chancellor and the Greek Prime Minister met officially in Berlin. Detouring politicians and stereotypes the German and Greek…
TrapWire – Big Business Brother Is Watching You
On 10 August 2012 operators of the notorious whisteblower site Wikileaks reported that they had been hit by a cyber attack. 10GB of data were supposedly fired at their servers in a pretty severe DDoS-attack. One reason for the attack…
PPNL Did Not Get a Seat But the Future is Looking Bright
Update: PPNL just passed 30 000 votes and has now a total of 30 438 votes with four regions left to count. One of these “regions” left is the postal votes. Pirate Times have been following the Dutch elections today. With…
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