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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 opinion or PPIT which scrapped its boar in favour of letting its membership make decisions via liquid feedback. Liquid feedback is not without its critics and there are plenty of Pirate Programmers out there working on developing improved models. Spanish MP Gave Power to the …

Creator News Pirate Topic Stathis Leivaditis

Spanish MP Gave Power to the People | PirateTimes

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 use “agoravoting”,  an online voting system that is being used by the Pirate Party of Madrid, to directly ask  the Spanish people for their opinion on a current bill The bill in question was the Transparency Act, a bill being considered as a cover for politicians coming to …

Creator Editorial Opinion Michael Wartenbe News

The Plutocracy of Copyright Holders | PirateTimes

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, which simple led to a proliferation of proxies. However, while the optimistic analogy always sees an unhurt mole appearing elsewhere, it forgets that each blow and attempt to limit piracy is damaging something else—the right to privacy, online freedoms, and increasingly even democracy itself. To …

Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine Learning News Pirate Parties Tips & Tricks

PPSE Poster Campaign: For Sweden in Future Times | PirateTimes

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. If you would like to explain more about your Pirate Party’s campaign strategies we are very happy for guest posts. The text below has been loosely translated from the Swedish instructions about the poster campaign. — In 2014 the Swedish Pirate Party will face the …

Anton Nordenfur News Pirate Topic

Sarah Palin Sued for Copyright Infringement of 9/11 Photo | PirateTimes

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 case later dropped because the pirate party was not the copyright owner. In this case, Palin has been sued by the copyright owner, the North Jersey Media Group, reports CNN. According to Jennifer Borg of the North Jersey Media Group, they first tried asking Palin and …

Creator Inside Pirate Times Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Transparency | PirateTimes – Part 2

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 Pirate Topic the Pirate’s call for increased transparency was the development of the Online Parliament Viewer or Alþingisrýnirinn.The viewer sources its data from publicly available records and presents them in a way that is easy to understand. PIRATES OF DENMARK KEEPERS OF TRANSPARENCY May 28, …

Creator Flattr Inside Pirate Times Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Flattr Appreciation During August 2013 Euro 18.80 | PirateTimes

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 Euros more compared to last month. This is most likely due to summer holidays for most people and each click being worth more than normal. Thanks to our loyal supporters (18 subscriptions to our things = half of clicks this month made automatically) we got …

Creator Michael Wartenbe News Pirate Topic

Study finds file sharing helps small films | PirateTimes

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 with the MPAA’s sentiments, while others do not. Digging a little deeper, however, researchers at the Munich School of Management and Copenhagen Business School argue these contradictory results are due to treating movies as a homogeneous unit and find interesting results when dividing movies based …

Creator News Zbigniew Łukasiak

Freedom not Fear! Protest for privacy | PirateTimes

Freedom not Fear! September 12, 2013 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Pirate Party News The tragedy of September 11th, 2001 was used by the western governments as a pretext to rob us of our freedoms. To fight the terrorists the secret services of the USA and other countries were granted permission to further invade our privacy on a massive scale. Special laws were passed and special interpretations of these laws were made to let the spies to intercept all our electronic communication, analyse it at will and store it for whatever time they want. But often the spies don’t even bother with the special laws and just do whatever …

Creator News Zbigniew Łukasiak

PP³ – Connecting the European Pirates Bottom-Up | PirateTimes

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 meeting included a video conference with a Czech pirates board member, Mikuláš Ferjenčík; the manager of the election campaign in Saxony, Mark Neis; and Zbigniew Łukasiak, the vice president of the Polish pirates. The fast approaching sequence of elections in Germany, Austria and Czech Republic, …

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