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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country plummeted overnight—a sign that P2P users, fearing exposure at last, were abandoning their existing copyright infringement tools. The Pirate Bay defendants...
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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The government has revealed details of its Digital Economy Bill, trailed in the Queen's Speech. One proposal which has already attracted a great deal of attention is the introduction of new penalties for those suspected of internet piracy, from disconnection to hefty fines. Laws which allow the swift termination of pirates' internet connections (often on a 'three strikes and you're out' basis) have...
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Waffle (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Possibly the only good thing to come out of the recent ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon (which, pithily but accurately summarized in a sub clause, makes the EU far less democratic) is the reallocation of seats in the European Parliament. Sweden gets two more seats, and one goes to the Pirate Party’s runner-up Amelia [...]
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Paperholic (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
To finish a ( complicated ) story we had started here: European Elections 2009: Swedish Pirate Party will have 2 seats (Paperholic, June 8)… With the Lisbon Treaty being signed by all European Union member states, the Pirate Party has gained another seat in the European Parliament , writes Ernesto from TorrentFreak (November 4), and we are pleased to publish the picture of Amelia Andersdotter...
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Poli-Tea Party (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
As you might recall, Sweden's Pirate Party made international headlines last June, when it successfully won a seat in the European Parliament. In Germany's federal elections late last month, the nation's fledgling Pirate Party received over three-quarters of a million votes, enough to qualify for future federal campaign funds. At the time of the European parliamentary elections, I termed the
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MEMORY PALACE (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Pirate Party Australia Plans Election Onslaught tags : copyright After winning 7.1 per cent of Swedish votes in this year's European Parliament elections, The Pirate Party has opened up a branch in Australia and plans to contest the next federal election. The party , which will campaign on a platform of anti-internet censorship and the decriminalisation of non-commercial file sharing, has already signed...
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The Age (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
After winning 7.1 per cent of Swedish votes in this year's European Parliament elections, The Pirate Party has opened up a branch in Australia and plans to contest the next federal election.
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The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
New Pirate Parties are popping up all around the world, putting copyright, censorship and privacy issues on the political agenda. The Canadian Pirate Party is eager to join in. They are currently seeking federal approval and need just a few more members to become registered as an official political party. Source: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-canada-set-for-federal-approval-090923/
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TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
New Pirate Parties are popping up all around the world, putting copyright, censorship and privacy issues on the political agenda. The Canadian Pirate Party is eager to join in. They are currently seeking federal approval and need just a few more members to become registered as an official political party.
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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
If you asked a file-sharer in, say, 2005, if there would be a political party with a focus on, among other things, copyright and internet rights issues, you were more than likely to just get an odd look or a response wondering what kind of substances you were on. That was just four years [...]
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The French Pirate Party will present a candidate in an upcoming interim election for a vacant seat in the National Assembly, it announced Tuesday. Parti Pirate , the French affiliate of Pirate Party International, sees the election as a way to raise the issue of France's so-called three strikes law , which will return to parliament again later this month after parts of an earlier draft were ruled...
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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The Swedish Pirate Party winning one seat in the European Parliament was a major milestone for the party on the world stage. It inspired several people in different countries to form their own Pirate Party in different countries around the world. So, one can only imagine what it means for the international movement [...]
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The blogger of suburbia (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
So, they’ve found the Arctic Sea, the ship that literally dropped off the radar as soon as it hit the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It has certainly generated enough rumours to fill a cheap airport novel. Drugs or guns smuggled in during repairs at Kaliningrad, a hijacking in the Baltic Sea, the massive Russian response prompting the Finns to test the port for radioactivity, ransom demands,...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Will the Pirate Bay deal cost Sweden’ s Pirate Party valuable support? There’ s no question it was able to secure a place in the European parliament because of Pirate Power — the fact it’s closely linked in so many ways to The Pirate Bay, the once independent Swedish indexing [...]
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Room515 (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
RT The Pirate Party - which won a seat in the European Parliament in Sweden-plans to contest the… http://tinyurl.com/lehs94 (via @bbctech)
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