Flattr Appreciation During September Euro 17.75 October 16, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In September 2013 we had 46 things flattred by 19 unique users. In total we were flattred 99 times last month and received Euro 17.75 in support for our work. Activity went up all over: more things, users supporting us and flattrs. The amount received in […]
Local By-election in the UK. Pirate Candidate Gets 4.5% October 14, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Election In the UK, a Manchester City council seat was vacated when Jim Battle resigned his job to take the job of Deputy Police Commissioner. This forced a by-election that took place Thursday 10 October 2013. The Pirate leader, Loz Kaye, was competing for the single […]
PP Norway got 0.3% in National Election and 750.000+ Euros September 19, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News For a political party that is only a year old getting 0.3% in their first election is a good result. The Pirate Party of Norway managed to get 9.868 votes of the total 2.848.986 votes resulting in 0.3%. PPNO are pleased… Swedish Pirate […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Commissioner of Fundamental Rights Receives Signatures Against Surveillance September 25, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News Several thousand signatures collected at stopwatching.eu after recent privacy scandals were handed over last Thursday. The commissioner of fundamental rights was first hesitant to receive the collected signatures but after some convincing, her assistants accepted them for her. The signatures were a “call… About Koen De […]
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, […]
German Pirate Party Receive 2.2 % in Elections, No Seats in Parliament September 23, 2013 · by Cécile Dupont · in Election The first results of the German federal election were revealed on Sunday 22 September, 2013. The German Pirate Party received about 2.2 % of the votes, 0.2 percentage points more than in the last federal elections of 2009. This was a good result but unfortunately not enough for them… About Cécile Dupont […]
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. […]
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 […]
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