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Czech Pirate Party launches movie download linksite with motto, "Linking is...
The Czech Pirate Party is incensed that a Czech high school student has been sued for €5M for running a website with links to allegedly infringing downloads. The Party has expressed its outrage by...
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Pirate Party wins 14(ish) seats in Berlin parliament
LaHaine sez, "According to the first prognosis, the German Pirate Party has entered the state parliament of the city-state of Berlin with 8,5% of the votes, counting for 14 of a total of 149 seats."...
View ArticlePirate Party mysteriously barred from exhibiting at Sweden's Gamex
Sweden's Pirate Party says it was avidly courted by the sales staff for Gamex, the largest games conference in the country. The party bought a booth and went to some expense arranging to have it...
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Swedish Pirate Party MEP Amelia Andersdotter, on taking office at long last
Amelia Andersdotter is the Swedish Pirate Party MEP who won her seat more than two years ago, but is only heading to the European Parliament now, due to eurocratic delays. TorrentFreak catches up with...
View ArticleCanadian Parliament: a notorious pirate marketplace
The IP addresses assigned to the Canadian Parliament have been implicated in several copyright-violating BitTorrent downloads. The 192.197.82.0 – 192.197.82.255 IP block was seen to be in BitTorrent...
View ArticleDas Liquid Democracy and the German Pirate Pary
Amelia_G sez, "The German Pirate Party is working out its platform online, transparently. One key concept is 'das Liquid Democracy,' intended to be a flowing interface between direct and indirect...
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Pirate Party wins seats in second German state
The German Pirate Party has won four seats in Saarland, one of the smallest regions in Germany, described as a "conservative area." The PP campaigned on greater transparency in government. I'm...
View ArticleGerman Pirate Party wins seats in a third regional election
The German Pirate Party has won seats in a third federal district, taking 8.2% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein; they're on track to win seats in a fourth state next week in Northrhine-Westphalia....
View ArticleUN's copyright agency won't let the Pirate Party in
International non-governmental organizations with an interest in copyright and related issues have always been admitted to the United Nations's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as...
View ArticleUK record industry seeks to financially ruin leaders of the Pirate Party
Ever since the UK record labels got a court to order our national ISPs to censor The Pirate Bay, the UK Pirate Party has been offering a proxy that allows Britons to connect to the site and all the...
View ArticleUK Pirate Party drops its Pirate Bay proxy after legal bullying;...
The UK Pirate Party abandoned its fight against the BPI -- Britain's answer to the RIAA -- over its proxy for reaching The Pirate Bay, which is blocked by court order in the UK. The Party's executive...
View ArticleIcelandic Pirate Party lands three seats in Icelandic parliament
The Icelandic Pirate Party has won three seats in its national Parliament in the Pirates' best-ever showing on the world stage. They form a small part of the opposition to the "center-right"...
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Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is a candidate for Pirate Party MEP in Finland
Peter "brokep" Sunde -- who co-founded The Pirate Bay and founded Flattr, a system for allowing fans to directly pay the artists they love -- is standing for the European Parliament in Finland on...
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Own your crypto-extremism with the Torrorist tee
Celebrate yesterday's news that the NSA classes all Tor users as "extremists" and targets them for indefinite, deep surveillance...with fashion! The Torrorist tee is from the Luxembourg Pirate Party,...
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They put a Pirate Party MEP in charge of EU copyright reform: you won't...
Julia Reda, the sharp-as-a-tack Member of the European Parliament for the German Pirate Party, has just tendered her draft report on copyright reform in the EU. It is full of amazingly sensible...
View ArticleHelp the UK Pirate Party write its 2015 election manifesto
A reader writes: "The UK Pirate Party is launching their 2015 crowdsourced policy platform for their manifesto leading to the 2015 general election." We've been proud to run on British politics' first...
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Icelandic Pirates soar: citizenship for Snowden?
The Icelandic Pirate Party is out-polling all the country's other parties, with 24% of the population backing them. Iceland previously extended citizenship to Bobby Fischer, an exiled, jailed US...
View ArticleSave copyright reform in the EU!
Alex writes, "Copyright in Europe is broken. Your rights often end at national borders and the laws are not up to date with the Internet and our current habits." Julia Reda's report on fixing...
View ArticlePirate MEP's copyright reforms voted in by Europarl with "Right of Panorama"...
German MEP Julia Reda's brilliant recommendations for reforming EU copyright have passed the European Parliament, and the dastardly attempt to make it illegal to take "commercial" photos in public...
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If Iceland held its elections today, the Pirate Party would win
Pirate Party MP Birgitta Jonsdottir has long sat in the Icelandic parliament, later joined by two more MPs, being part of the reform movement that has repudiated the Icelandic establishment, which...
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