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 […]
Swedish Pirates Want to Send Minister of Justice to Mars August 29, 2013 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Party News The Young Pirates of Sweden has nominated the Swedish Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, to the Mars One project. They now hope that she will accept the nomination and leave Earth and politics behind her. The not-for-profit organisation Mars One made great waves […]
Digital Goods as a Public Good August 26, 2013 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic The Pirate Parties have an obvious lineage from The Pirate Bay and other forms of digital piracy, but bootlegging and sharing of media has been going on for decades. What is it then that has changed with the advent of digital media? Why has the concern of piracy […]
What is the TPP? (The Big Brother of ACTA Explained) August 23, 2013 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic Currently under negotiations is an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, a Pacific orientated trade agreement composed of Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. Eight additional prospectives have joined negotiations for membership, which would expand the agreement to Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, […]
Iceland’s Parliament Viewer, Keeping Track of Politicians August 22, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic In the run up to the national election in Iceland one of the comments about the Pirate Party was that they were keeping their electoral promises before the elections had taken place. One of the reasons for this was the development of the Online Parliament Viewer or […]
Icelandic Pirates Found a Youth Wing August 20, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News The Icelandic Pirates are at it again. Their party was only founded officially on 24 November 2012. Less than half a year later they became the first Pirate Party to get people elected in a national parliament. Now the Pirates in Iceland are taking a new […]
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