Reda’s Report was Approved – A Turning Point for Copyright June 23, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Party News The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament passed an amended version of Julia Reda’s copyright evaluation report on 17th June in Brussels. The committee’s non-legislative report, assessing the effects of the key piece of EU copyright law, was approved by 23 votes […]
Sunday’s Elections A Big Challenge For PPGR Pirate Party Norway Increases Slightly in Elections Birgitta Sponsors a Motion in Inter-Parliamentary Union PPNO Achieves 4.1% in School Elections Pirate Activist Risks 4 Years in Prison for Protest Your Pirate Movement Needs You June 23, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Editorial Opinion The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International (PPI) will be held two weeks from […]
New Brazilian Law Strips Citizen’s Rights June 19, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Party News Marco Civil da Internet: Don’t Believe the Hype In 2012 a general director of Google was arrested in Brazil. Since then, this big corporation has invested millions of dollars in lobbying the Brazilian congress, political, academic institutions (like FGV, the Getúlio Vargas Foundation) and activist collectives influence […]
PPI Statute Reforms Proposal June 15, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The Pirate Party of Germany has tabled some amendments to make some important changes to the statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI). The full wording of the amendments can be seen in the conference section of the PPI wiki. There are five changes being proposed: Admittance of MembersThis amendment […]
Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 008 June 10, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcast The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 7 June 2015 and recorded on 9 June. Out of four invited Icelanders two where able to to make it – this was done with the knowledge that due […]
Key TTIP vote postponed June 9, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Party News An important vote on TTIP at the plenary session of the European Parliament, which was due to take place tomorrow morning (10 June 2015), has been delayed at the last minute. The reason offered is that there has been such a large number of amendments to the proposal that MEPs need […]
Pirate Teachers Stay Above SYRIZA’s Union Ballot In Athens’ “Aristotle” June 8, 2015 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: Greek The most impressive thing about Pirates in Education is that in “Aristotle”, one of the largest associations of Athens’ teachers, for the 4th time in a row, they got more votes than than their colleagues in […]
Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 007 June 4, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcast The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 31 May 2015 and recorded on 3 June. An evening with Spanish Pirates Dario Castañé, local pirate politician in Barcelona and Lorena Müller-Nischt, chair of the Spanish… A report from […]
Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 007 June 4, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcasts The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 31 May 2015 and recorded on 3 June. An evening with Spanish Pirates Dario Castañé, local pirate politician in Barcelona and Lorena Müller-Nischt, chair of the Spanish Pirate Confederation, were […]
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij Released from Prison June 4, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Topic Fredrik Neij was released from prison in Skänninge, Sweden, on 1 June 2015, after serving two-thirds of a 10-month prison sentence for his involvement with Pirate Bay in enabling copyright infringement. Neij was instrumental in the operation of the Pirate Bay and was involved in the […]
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