Hungary on the way towards Orwell’s 1984? October 30, 2013 · by Matic Urbanija · in Pirate Topic During the past few months the world has been focused on NSA snooping as well as the drama that surrounded Edward Snowden. This has caused some things, smaller in scope but equally vital for the privacy of people, to pass… European Pirates: A Common Programme for European […]
Pirates Fighting Estonian Municipal Elections October 13, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election Municipal elections in Estonia started already on 10 October 2013 using e-voting and will culminate on 20 October with traditional paper ballots and the Estonian Pirate Party is taking part. Ten Pirate candidates are running in election coalitions and one Pirate is… Record Labels = $4.5 Billion / Pirates = $0. Not […]
Hungary on the way towards Orwell’s 1984? October 30, 2013 · by Matic Urbanija · in Pirate Topic During the past few months the world has been focused on NSA snooping as well as the drama that surrounded Edward Snowden. This has caused some things, smaller in scope but equally vital for the privacy of people, to pass with little or no notice. One of […]
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, […]
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