Hugo Ferreira | | PirateTimes

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 […]

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High Hopes for the German Pirates on Sunday’s Election | PirateTimes

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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Swedish Pirates Want to Send Minister of Justice to Mars | PirateTimes

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 […]

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Digital Goods as a Public Good | PirateTimes

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 […]

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What is the TPP? (The Big Brother of ACTA Explained) | PirateTimes

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, […]

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Iceland’s Parliament Viewer, Keeping Track of Politicians | PirateTimes

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 […]

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Icelandic Pirates Found a Youth Wing | PirateTimes

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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Pirate Times – Part 77

You can participate in European politics August 13, 2012 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Pirate Party News In the last week of June, a group of 20 young pirates from Germany traveled to Brussels for a visit to the European Parliament and the European Commission. The group had many meetings with lobbyists and representatives of different organizations… How Sweden Found an Effective Way of […]

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Happy Birthday Pirate Times! 1 Year of Pirate News | PirateTimes

Happy Birthday Pirate Times! 1 Year of Pirate News August 13, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our first news article was published here on Pirate Times one year ago. The two first articles we published on 13 August  2012 was “How Sweden found an effective way of broadening their politics” and “You can participate in European politics”. Since then we […]

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An Open Letter From Pirate Party Brazil About Their Progress | PirateTimes

An Open Letter From Pirate Party Brazil About Their Progress August 12, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News An open letter from the Pirate Party Brazil, explaining their progress. Translation by Josef Ohlsson Collentine — OPEN LETTER NUMBER 1, 2013 PIRATES, Our journey began in 2007 when a small group of people, inspired by the Pirate Party of Sweden, decided […]

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