UK on EU “We will not benefit from antagonising neighbours” | PirateTimes

UK/EU Debate – PPUK: “We will not benefit from antagonising neighbours” January 25, 2013 · by Dominic Guhl · in Interview In the debate on the future of UK and EU, PPUK Leader Loz Kaye outlined a pirates’ vision of a citizens’ Europe in an interview with PirateTimes. In his opinion, Cameron’s initiative sounded threatful to some EU members. The vision of the PPUK for […]

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Pirates ran in 2013 Israeli elections and the results | PirateTimes

Pirates ran in 2013 Israeli Elections January 23, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election The number of Pirate Parties in the world is constantly growing and in some countries there are more than one. This is the case in Israel but only one, הפיראטים, managed to register and take part in the elections held on 22 January 2013. They did not reach the hoped […]

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Lower Saxony Pirates Fail to Gain Seats in State Parliament | PirateTimes

Lower Saxony Pirates Fail to Gain Seats in State Parliament January 22, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election Hundreds of Lower Saxony Pirates, together with Pirates from other Germans states and many from at least 14 other countries, gathered in Hanover to watch the results come in. As stated in our earlier article, the polls were showing 3-4% of the conservative leaning Lower […]

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Pirate Party Australia Registers as a Political Party | PirateTimes

Pirate Party Australia Registers as a Political Party January 21, 2013 · by Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer · in Pirate Party News Pirate Party Australia announced today, 21 January 2012 that its application for registration as a federal political party passed all tests and is now on the register of political parties. PPAU was founded in 2009 and is well on its way to being a force […]

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Pirate Party of Lower Saxony Fighting to make it into State Parliament | PirateTimes

Pirate Party of Lower Saxony Fighting to make it into State Parliament January 19, 2013 · by Justus Römeth · in Election Saturday  is the last day of campaigning  for the Lower Saxon Pirates before the state parliament (Landtag) elections on Sunday 20.01.2013 . The Pirate Party of Lower Saxony (Piratenpartei Niedersachsen) is accompanying its controversial posters  with a lot of street campaigning. This includes information […]

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Flattr Appreciation During December Euro 21.12 | PirateTimes

Flattr Appreciation During December Euro 21.12 January 17, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In December we had 47 things flattred by 15 unique users. In total we were flattred 103 times this month and received Euro 21.12 in support for our work. Our total current account balance is 96.88 Euros and we’re discussing how to invest the money. One idea […]

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Dominic Guhl | | PirateTimes

UK/EU Debate – PPUK: “We will not benefit from antagonising neighbours” January 25, 2013 · by Dominic Guhl · in Interview In the debate on the future of UK and EU, PPUK Leader Loz Kaye outlined a pirates’ vision of a citizens’ Europe in an interview with PirateTimes. In his opinion, Cameron’s initiative sounded threatful to some EU members. The vision of the PPUK for […]

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Global Internet Surveillance – all for the protection of copyright? | PirateTimes

Global Internet Surveillance – all for the protection of copyright? January 10, 2013 · by Dominic Guhl · in Pirate Topic In December, the ITU “World Conference on International Telecommunications” was held in Dubai. The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, having over 190 states as members. Numerous controversial proposals find their way onto its desk. Due to pressure […]

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Icelandic Authorities Blocking PiratePad as “Hate-Speech” | PirateTimes

Icelandic Authorities Blocking PiratePad as “Hate-Speech” January 5, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The Icelandic Pirate Party has confirmed their suspicions that the Reykjavik City authorities are blocking access to one of the party’s collaboration platforms, namely PiratePad. Different versions of PiratePad are being used by several other Pirate Parties around the world. The city of Reykjavik uses content filtering software […]

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Happy Public Domain Day! | PirateTimes

Happy Public Domain Day! January 5, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Topic On the first of  January, the beginning of the new year is not the only thing to celebrate. The first of January is also known as “Public Domain Day“. Due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of […]

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