Study Finds File Sharing Helps Small Films September 16, 2013 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic Within the debate of the rights of copyright versus our privacy and freedom lies another debate, examining whether file sharing is even a danger to the industries. The MPAA offers an undoubting “yes”, forming the basis for its endless take down requests and attacks. Some scholars agree […]
Freedom not Fear! September 12, 2013 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Pirate Party News The tragedy of September 11th, 2001 was used by the western governments as a pretext to rob us of our freedoms. To fight the terrorists the secret services of the USA and other countries were granted permission to further invade our privacy on a massive scale. Special laws were passed […]
PP³ – Connecting the European Pirates Bottom-Up September 5, 2013 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Pirate Party News From August 30 to September 1, Pirates from the three neighbouring countries Germany, Czech Republic and Poland met in Dresden for the first PP³ conference. As a real and productive surprise, Pirates from Austria and France also made the long trip to join the meeting. The […]
Ethics of File Sharing – The Shallowness of Most Accusations September 4, 2013 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic Those who are open to others about their file sharing are keenly aware of the criticisms that are thrown at us, many times without much thought. Some of the more emotional accusations even equate us with pirates, a term that was easily adopted as […]
New Zealand Just Got Saner Software Patent Laws September 2, 2013 · by Hugo Ferreira · in Pirate Topics After five years of debate and lobbying from major multinational software patent holders, some sanity has been brought into New Zealand’s software patent system. New Zealand has announced that they will no longer approve meritless software patents describing age old processes solely because they are now […]
New Zealand Just Got Saner Software Patent Laws September 2, 2013 · by Hugo Ferreira · in Pirate Topic After five years of debate and lobbying from major multinational software patent holders, some sanity has been brought into New Zealand’s software patent system. New Zealand has announced that they will no longer approve meritless software patents describing age old… About Hugo Ferreira News […]
High Hopes for the German Pirates on Sunday’s Election September 21, 2013 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Election Sunday September 22, 2013 sees the federal elections for the German Pirate Party. Pirate Times sat down with candidate MP Felicitas Steinhoff to discuss these last few days before the election. “Two thirds of the voters are still undecided, so it depends on how many people we can […]
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