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Creator Dominic Guhl News Pirate Topic

Pirate Party Charges Banks for WikiLeaks Boycott | PirateTimes

Pirate Party Charges Banks for WikiLeaks Boycott December 18, 2012 · by Dominic Guhl · in Pirate Party News, Pirate Topic The Swedish Pirate Party is pressing charges against banks in Sweden for presumed acts of discrimination against WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks organisation has been declined receiving donations by several payment providers since 2010. In 2010, donations to WikiLeaks have been blocked by several financial institutes, including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal – and Swedish banks. The latter have been pressed charges on, by the Swedish Pirate Party with the Finansinspektionen (the local authority of financial supervision). An earlier initiative by the Pirate Party suggested regulations on credit card corporations on EU-wide level to …

Creator Loïc News Pirate Topic

Mediagoblin: Media hosting done right | PirateTimes

Mediagoblin: Media hosting done right November 21, 2012 · by Loïc · in Pirate Topic Do you share videos, sounds, pictures or 3D models? If so, you probably had to create accounts for countless sites, one for each medium. Every single one of them is run by a different private company with its own agenda and onerous user agreements that you have to trust for keeping your files online. But don’t worry, this won’t last. The GNU project is working for safe, free and transparent content hosting. Its new baby is named MediaGoblin. MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform. Now what does that mean? If you know about …

News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

Transparency | PirateTimes – Part 3

New Draft Reveals OpenCleanIT Was Shortened November 4, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Pirate Topic This is an update to yesterday’s article, which analysed the draft CleanIT document published and opened for comment by the OpenCleanIT platform. Another draft of the CleanIT document has been published (version 0.77 dated October 30, whereas the previously discussed document was version 0.762, dated October 24). It seems as if the version published on the OpenCleanIT platform was severely shortened. Pirates open up CleanIT. But has it changed? November 3, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Pirate Topic CleanIT is a public-private partnership project by several European governments, internet industry firms, …

Creator News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

CleanIT: New Draft Reveals OpenCleanIT Was Shortened | PirateTimes

New Draft Reveals OpenCleanIT Was Shortened November 4, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Pirate Topic This is an update to yesterday’s article, which analysed the draft CleanIT document published and opened for comment by the OpenCleanIT platform. Another draft of the CleanIT document has been published (version 0.77 dated October 30, whereas the previously discussed document was version 0.762, dated October 24). It seems as if the version published on the OpenCleanIT platform was severely shortened. A quick overview of the new document reveals that some ideas which where left out in the discussed draft are in fact still in there. There still is a “best practice” chapter …

Creator News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

Pirates open up CleanIT. But has it changed? | PirateTimes

Pirates open up CleanIT. But has it changed? November 3, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Pirate Topic CleanIT is a public-private partnership project by several European governments, internet industry firms, and NGOs that has been subject to strong criticism. Opponents fear CleanIT endangers civil rights and internet freedom, while keeping their work hidden from public oversight. This secrecy has now been reduced. Last weekend, the project officially published the latest draft of their working document. This was achieved due to the efforts of Sven Clement, President of the Pirate Party of Luxembourg, and Pascal Gloor, Vice-President of the Pirate Party of Switzerland, who takes part in the CleanIT …

Andrew Reitemeyer Creator News Pirate Topic

Send a Friend to NDAA Jail | PirateTimes

Send a Friend to NDAA Jail September 29, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic CC BY-NC-SA by watchingfrogsboil Icelandic Pirate Birgitta Jónsdóttir is working against the 2012 NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) that allows the US military to detain citizens from any country, including US citizens, without limit and without trial. She recently tweeted about an app from DemandProgress that aims to spread awareness and opposition to the act. The app takes a picture of a Facebook friend and superimposes prison bars over it. This is then posted to the friend’s wall for them and all their friends to see and a link learn about NDAA and …

Anton Nordenfur Creator News Pirate Topic

Portugal Declares File-Sharing for Personal Use Legal | PirateTimes

Portugal Declares File-Sharing for Personal Use Legal September 28, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Topic After the anti-piracy group ACAPOR reported IP addresses of 2,000 suspected file sharers, the Portuguese Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) has come to a somewhat surprising conclusion: not only will these file sharers not be prosecuted, but it seems that file sharing for personal use is not illegal in Portugal. The DIAP prosecutor argues that copyright should not restrict the “right to education, culture, and freedom in cyberspace”. While the report doesn’t specifically cover uploading original content, it is legal to both download and to share the content, for example via torrent seeding. Quoted …

Creator News Pirate Topic Stathis Leivaditis

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy | PirateTimes

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy September 26, 2012 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Topic A 27 year old was arrested by Greek police on charges of blasphemy, because on his Facebook page he satirized a monk, well known as Elder Paisios, paraphrasing his name to Elder Pastitsios, referring to the famous Greek food “pastitsio”, macaroni pie with minced meat. Are there limits to freedom of expression? Is there censorship in satire? The answer depends on from which angle one sees things, but no one can close his eyes when constitutional rights are being blatantly violated. And in the case of the 27-year-old from Psahna Evia, his …

Creator Europe News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

Inside the Clean-IT conflict | PirateTimes

Inside the Clean-IT conflict September 25, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Europe, Pirate Party News, Pirate Topic CleanIT is a project by several European governments and private stakeholders. The project officially aims to reduce the use (or abuse) of the internet by terrorists. The list of the CleanIT goals reads, on the surface, like it is motivated by the wish to protect children or otherwise easily influenced persons from exposure to terrorist content. This protection is motivated through a fear that these people might become radicalised or otherwise harmed by seeing it. After a recent leak made public by European Digital Rights (EDRi), a Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO), CleanIT has …

Creator News Pirate Topic Zbigniew Łukasiak

Neigher left nor right | PirateTimes

Neither left nor right – an essay on Pirate politics September 20, 2012 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Pirate Topic “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is one of the most well known Marxist slogans and it is also how Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) is being used and produced.  Is FLOSS communist? In FLOSS you choose what you want to do and you do it your own way and you don’t need to ask anyone to let you test your ideas, just like in the free market you can test your business ideas without asking for permission. Is FLOSS libertarian? FLOSS meets …

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