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Top Candidate for Pirate Party Netherlands Elected
The Pirate Party Netherlands (PPNL) elected its top candidate for the national elections that will be held next year (15th of March, 2017). The election for top spot in the coming national elections took place last Sunday, during a general…
Norway Blocks The Pirate Bay and Other Sites
Despite a ruling last year, by a Dutch court, that declared blocking The Pirate Bay to be ineffective, Norway decided to block The Pirate Bay yesterday. This ruling comes with less than two weeks before local elections in Norway. In…
PPAU Translates Landmark Pirate Bay Case
In late August 2014 I was working on a submission to the Australian Government’s Online Copyright Infringement discussion paper. The Government was canvassing new measures to “tackle” the “problem” of online copyright infringement, and this was one of many opportunities for the…
Court Rules Blocking TPB Ineffective: PPAU Crowdfund Translation
Update: the translated ruling is now available for dowload (pdf). Earlier this year, a Dutch Court ruled that not only was blocking the Pirate Bay ineffective, BitTorrent traffic in the Netherlands had actually increased since the Pirate Bay was blocked. The Court decided…
Pirate Party in the Netherlands General Assembly
On Sunday, 6 July 2014, a General Assembly (GA) of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands was held in the city of Utrecht. The turnout was around 55 persons at the meeting. On the agenda for the GA was the election of…
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[Live] European Parliament Election Results
Today we will report live about the results of the EU elections. We expect the first public count to be available around 23.00 with some adjustments afterwards. Before that we will have exit polls, preliminary talk about possibilities and turnout….
The First Elected Pirate in the History of Dutch Politics
The Piratenpartij Netherlands (PPNL) has achieved an historic result with the Amsterdam elections of 2014. With the seat for Jelle de Graaf in the board committee of Amsterdam West, PPNL has the first elected pirate in the history of Dutch politics….
Pirates in the Netherlands prepare for local elections
The first half of this year will be a busy one for the Pirate Party of the Netherlands(PPNL). Not only will they compete in the European elections in May. On the 19 March 2014 PPNL will also participate in local…
The Importance of the Common European Election Programme
European Pirates are moving on to the next level by adopting the Common European Election Programme (CEEP) and getting ready for the European elections of May. The CEEP was adopted by consensus, last November, in Athens So far, Pirate Parties…
Pilot project for International Pirate Partnerships Announced
the Pirates of St. Vith, in Belgium and the Pirates of Düsseldorf are starting the first “grenzenlos Piraten-Partnerschaft” (border-less pirate partnership). The concept of partnerships, also called twinning, between two local Pirate groups in different geographical locations.
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