Solving Democracy Through Technology: Introducing Wasa2il September 29, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic Pirates have been designing policies and software that have the aim of bringing citizen participation into politics using technology and the internet as a platform. Many Pirate Parties are implementing liquid feedback systems internally such as PPDE which uses it as a sort of running straw-poll of membership […]
Spanish MP Gave Power to the People September 26, 2013 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Topic The roots of a democracy as it should be is giving the power to the people, and this was done recently by a Spanish Member of Parliament. Joan Baldovi, a Member of Parliament for the Greens (Compromís-Equo) was persuaded by members of a free software development group to […]
The Commissioner of Fundamental Rights Receives Signatures Against Surveillance September 25, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News Several thousand signatures collected at stopwatching.eu after recent privacy scandals were handed over last Thursday. The commissioner of fundamental rights was first hesitant to receive the collected signatures but after some convincing, her assistants accepted them for her. The signatures were a “call… About Koen De […]
The Plutocracy of Copyright Holders September 23, 2013 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Editorial Opinion The analogy that attacking piracy is a game of whac-a-mole appears to be quite a good one. Any effects to reduce piracy will be countered with new means of circumvention—if you hit a mole it reappears somewhere else. A good example is the United Kingdom’s blocking of torrent sites, […]
German Pirate Party Receive 2.2 % in Elections, No Seats in Parliament September 23, 2013 · by Cécile Dupont · in Election The first results of the German federal election were revealed on Sunday 22 September, 2013. The German Pirate Party received about 2.2 % of the votes, 0.2 percentage points more than in the last federal elections of 2009. This was a good result but unfortunately not enough for them… About Cécile Dupont […]
PPSE Poster Campaign: For Sweden in Future Times September 22, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Learning (tips&tricks) Looking at ideas and the execution of campaigning strategies can tell us a lot about a political party. Pirates should be good at remixing and re-using good ideas which is why we hope to write more tips and tricks such as this in the future. […]
Sarah Palin Sued for Copyright Infringement of 9/11 Photo September 20, 2013 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Topic The American politician Sarah Palin and her political action committee has been sued for copyright infringement after publishing a famous 9/11 photograph. The story is reminiscent of the recent story in which the Swedish Pirate Party reported the Minister of IT for copyright infringement, a […]
Flattr Appreciation During August Euro 18.80 September 17, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In August 2013 we had 31 things flattred by 14 unique users. In total we were flattred 36 times last month and received Euro 18.80 in support for our work. Iceland’s Parliament Viewer, Keeping Track of Politicians August 22, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in […]
Flattr Appreciation During August Euro 18.80 September 17, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In August 2013 we had 31 things flattred by 14 unique users. In total we were flattred 36 times last month and received Euro 18.80 in support for our work. We had one Flattr click less than last month and 4 more supporters, and gained 11 […]
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 […]
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