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Pirate Podcast 3: Samir Allioui on PPI and Dutch Elections

epriezka — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:52:37 GMT

Samir Allioui is Interim Co-President of Pirate Parties International and Chairman of the Dutch Pirate Party. For episode 3 of the Pirate Podcast, we talked about how he splits his time between the two roles, the plans for the PPI conference to be held in Brussels, and the national elections to be held in the Netherlands.

The interview is available here: http://piratepodcast.org/2010/03/samir-allioui-of-ppnl-ppi/

The Pirate Podcast is available from http://piratepodcast.org or via the iTunes store http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/pirate-podcast/id350878945

Swedish Pirates Invade Germany

pirateblondbeard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:53:54 GMT

Hello my fellow pirates from Sweden,

I'm writing you from Ireland (I'm German but live in Ireland) for the belongings of the German Pirate Party in North Rhine-Westphalia (http://nrw.piratenpartei.de), the largest state in Germany with about 18 million inhabitants: Please check also out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany

We the German Pirates have elections in our state on the 9th of May and we wonder if Swedish pirates might be interested in supporting us. Our plan is to have one weekend in late April to have some kind of "European Pirates Invade Germany for more Freedom and Transparency". We want to gather some pirates from all over Europe and have a weekend full of pirate stuff (drinking rum i.e.) handing out flyers to people etc. We also want to call the press and hope that the TV is coming as well to get great media coverage.

In the general German elections in September 2009 we got exactly 2,0% of all votes. So around 1,000,000 people voted for the pirates. This year we try to get in the parliament but we need 5% for that. We think that if we get into parliament, that this might give a boost to all pirates over Europe

Would be great if you would support us! We would pay for your Ryanair/Easyjet or whatever flight. You can crash on couches of local pirates and have fun in the great city of colonge: http://wikitravel.org/en/Cologne

Over day: Promoting the pirate party

And have fun at night in the local pubs!

What do you think? Do you think that might work? Anyone interested?

Bye,
Felix
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:Flix

Help get Canada's Prime Minister to speak about ACTA secrecy!

rantmedia — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:52:59 GMT

Help end ACTA secrecy!!

The closed door ACTA secrecy negotiations affects all 11 countries involved which include the USA, European Union, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Canada, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore and United Arab Emirates. These countries are secretly negotiating your rights away with NO PUBLIC INPUT and only corporate interests are able to view the documents such as the MPAA, RIAA, Pfizer, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont and Monsanto.

ACTA INFO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

TO HELP:

Similar to the event Obama recently held on the Internet, PM Stephen Harper is having a 'Your Interview with Prime Minister Harper' on YouTube. Help get Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper to publicly respond to ACTA secrecy! Anyone in the world can vote it up!

1) Search http://www.youtube.com/TalkCanada for "ACTA"
2) Upvote related questions.

Thank you!

Pirate Party Radio Episode 019: March 11, 2010

rantmedia — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:50 GMT

Pirate Party Radio
Episode 019: March 11, 2010

About Pirate Party Radio
Your host James O'Brien discusses Privacy, Surveillance, Anonymity, Net Neutrality, Copyright Reform, Free Culture, Free Speech, Patent Reform, Open Government and Pirate Party news from around the world.

Download Page:
http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/episodes.php

SPREAD THE WORD ON ACTA / VOTE FOR MY VIDEO
'Your Interview with Prime Minister Harper'

1) Go to http://www.youtube.com/talkcanada
2) Search for 'ACTA'
3) Upvote my video entry (under the name James O'Brien)
4) Look at other topics of interest to upvote

Intro Clips

Corey Doctorow talking about the three strikes rule applying to businesses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6SzNxbMyc

EU commissioner: Piracy should be a wake up call for policy makers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWf-X2ARz1Y
Viviane Reding, a Luxembourg politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Sent in by DC

In Pirate News

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Needs To Address The Hacking Incidents
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-mark-zuckerberg-needs-to-address-his-facebook-hacking-incidents-2010-3

KeePass Password Safe
http://keepass.info/

Internet access is 'a fundamental right'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8548190.stm
Sent in by Scott

Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-03/05/archiving-britain%27s-web-the-legal-nightmare-explored.aspx
Sent in by DC

World Day Against Cyber Censorship
http://www.rsf.org/World-Day-Against-Cyber-Censorship.html

You cannot copyright a Tweet
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/25/you-cannot-copyright-a-tweet/

Publish & license tweets with Creative Commons
http://tweetcc.com/

Wikipedia Article on Ashleigh Brilliant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Brilliant

DMCA Muscle Kills DVD Copying, for Real
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/dmca-muscle-strong-arms-dvd-copying/

OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights
http://www.fastcompany.com/1578965/ok-go-ditches-record-label-after-very-public-tussles-over-youtube-embedding-rights
Sent in by DC

Pirate Party News

Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race-100308/

ACTA Supporters - UKIP named and shamed
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/10/acta-supporters-ukip-named-and-shamed/

SPREAD THE WORD ON ACTA / VOTE FOR MY VIDEO
'Your Interview with Prime Minister Harper'

1) Go to http://www.youtube.com/talkcanada
2) Search for 'ACTA'
3) Upvote my video entry (under the name James O'Brien)
4) Look at other topics of interest to upvote

Closing Track & Closing Words

'The Cult of Originality
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY
Sent in by DC

Why DRM Doesn't Work or How To Download An Audio Book from The Cleveland Public Library
http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=205

The Right To Read by Richard Stallman
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Shunned by Derek R. Audette.
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php

ACTA leaked!

Idee — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:20:53 GMT

http://sites.google.com/site/actadigitalchapter/acta_digital_chapter.pdf?attredirects=0
to download or just to look at...

Germany: BVerfG (highest court): Today's Data Storage against Constitution (2nd March 2010)

Idee — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:20 GMT

Decision:
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rs20100302_1bvr025608.html
Press release:
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg10-011.html

Pirate of the World, Unite!

dichter — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:05:35 GMT

Ahoy,

You might be aware of the upcoming international pirate conference
in Brussels the will be happen April 14th-16th
At this conference the International Pirate organization (aka PPI)
will be founded. I have put up a presentation on the statutes
task force on slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/dichter/pirates-of-the-world-unite

and would be glad if some people from Piratpartiet would
join the task force and contribute your ideas, on what this
organization should be like.
http://www.mypirates.net/ppi_development
(please enter in your profile what pirate party you are from
to get access to this group)

sincerely yours,

Gregory Engels
International Coordinator
Pirate Party of Germany
Leader Statutes Task Force, PPI

Pirate Party Radio Episode 017: February 25, 2010

rantmedia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:58:47 GMT

Pirate Party Radio
Episode 017: February 25, 2010

About Pirate Party Radio
Your host James O'Brien discusses Privacy, Surveillance, Anonymity, Net Neutrality, Copyright Reform, Free Culture, Free Speech, Patent Reform, Open Government and Pirate Party news from around the world.

Download Page:
http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/episodes.php

Intro Clips

Mike Schroepfer from Facebook Talking about how it's too Hard to Program Effectively for Privacy with social network sites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3faNd3sU5_E
Sent in DC

Italy Convicts 3 Google Execs in Abuse Case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PlxJ4UW4Zw

Pirate News:

Court: Don’t Need Warrant to Seize P2P Files
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/88176/court-dont-need-warrant-to-seize-p2p-files/

Practical Advice for Music Bloggers Worried About DMCA Takedown Censorship
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/mp3-bloggers-protecting

US Government Consults Public On Illegal File-Sharing
http://torrentfreak.com/us-government-consults-public-on-illegal-file-sharing-100224/

Software industry lobbyists claim open source promotes piracy
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/21838.cfm
Sent in by Mindinversion

Google bosses convicted in Italy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8533695.stm

Can Google Secure a Safe Haven for BitTorrent Sites?
http://torrentfreak.com/can-google-secure-a-safe-haven-for-bittorrent-sites-100225/
Sent in by DC

UK Says ‘No’ To Disconnecting File-Sharers, Sort Of
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-government-says-no-to-disconnecting-file-sharers-sort-of-100222/

Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is
http://www.torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-killing-the-movie-industry-greed-is-100222/

MPAA, RIAA Want Canada to Remain on Copyright Watch List
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1914

Reminder: You Don't Compete With Piracy By Being Lame, The DVD Edition
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100219/0139308235.shtml

Fun With Stats: Do 80% Of Australians Really Support Gov't Censorship Of The Internet?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100223/0144198263.shtml

Pirate Party News:

Senator Lundy and Censorship Lite
http://www.pirateparty.org.au/senator-lundy-and-censorship-lite

Closing Track & Closing Words:

Not wrong, just illegal
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/not-wrong-just-illegal-84292007.html

Mark Thomas talks about the Digital economy Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4S4siQAfY4

Swedish - English; Swedish - German; English - German Translator

Idee — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:23:56 GMT

May i ask you to provide/name nevertheless one (or more) translator for Swedish?
I will prefer an online translator.

For example this one:
http://translate.google.com/
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Swedish
and some dictionaries...

Perhaps you have some exercise which translator/dictionary is good.

For German English there is a good dictionary:
http://dict.leo.org/
Well it is no good to let it translate whole texts on its own, but if you are in need of some phrases or words it will do its very best.

Edit (1 day after): Can nobody post me (in here) an ([fool] prooved) online translator e.g. Swedish English? I can't believe.

Urgent, 16.02.2010 take part in the US hearing (official site)

Idee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:38:56 GMT

http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/contentStreamer?objectId=0900006480a7bbba&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf
"Tuesday, February 16, 2010 (by 5:00 p.m.) – For interested parties, except for foreign
governments: Submit written comments, requests to testify at the Special 301 Public Hearing,
and hearing statements."

Anyone who wants to file a comment can go to
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html
number USTR-2010-0003,
include the term "2010 Special 301 Review"
click at "Submit Comment"
Please be sure your browser accept skripts.

Perhaps someone tells christian about...

Crime vs state

Henrik Rydberg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:39:52 GMT

I suggest that making up laws should be recognized as a crime vs. state. It means that the act of making up laws outside recognized law writing authorities should be contend as a military assault on the state and give the military right to interfere vs. such activities.

It is in my opinion a very logical propositional to reduce crime and corruption levels in society.

Pirate Party Radio Episode 013: January 28, 2010

rantmedia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:02:38 GMT

Pirate Party Radio
Episode 013: January 28, 2010

Download Page:
http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/episodes.php

Introduction:

The ACTA Threat
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4725/125/

Lords debate how to STOP ACS LAWs "Legal Blackmail"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE8ol60TLsE

News Items:

ACTA documents: official and leaked
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4730/125/

Consumer advocates declare war on copyright treaty
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/26/acta-copyright-secret-discussions.html
Sent in by DC

Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/nsa-spy-cases-tossed

Anti-Piracy Scheme “A Scam & Legal Blackmail” Say UK Lords
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-scheme-a-scam-legal-blackmail-say-uk-lords-100128/

Photographers protest over UK terror search laws
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476318.stm

The Public Domain Manifesto
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2010/01/24/the-public-domain-manifesto/
Sent in by DC

Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-browser-tracking

Estimating The Cost of a Three-Strikes and You're Out System
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4731/135/

FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Would Permit Blocking of BitTorrent
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/net-neutrality-plan-would-permit-blocking-bittorrent

Playing of recorded music in prisons to be banned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/19/prison-music-ban

Pirate Party News:

US Pirate Party Election Results
http://www.pirate-party.us/content/congratulations-brittany-phelps-our-new-administrator

Closing Words:

Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/offline-book-lending-costs-us.html

Interview with Andrew Robinson from UK Pirate Party
http://audioboo.fm/boos/93408-andrew-robinson-from-the-pirate-party

Pirate Party Radio Episode 014: February 4, 2010

rantmedia — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:40:07 GMT

Pirate Party Radio
Episode 014: February 4, 2010

Download Page:
http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/episodes.php

Introduction:

AFACT Loses Australian Court Case
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid42757772001?bctid=64768239001

Net Neutrality and US President Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP01t0Z4Hr8

Incoming Messages:

data.gov idea submissions by Crunge
http://smf.rantradio.com/index.php?topic=2459.0
http://www.datagov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/18514-6440

News Items:

Pirate Party Australia Welcomes Decision in iiNet Trial
http://pirateparty.org.au/iinet-trial

Interview with James O'Brien and David Crafti, President of the Australian Pirate Party
http://southernstand.blogspot.com/2010/02/ep-11-jan-31-2010.html

Brussels denies rumours of secret anti-piracy treaty
http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/brussels-denies-rumours-secret-anti-piracy-treaty

Newzbin Usenet Indexing Trial: Day One
http://torrentfreak.com/newzbin-usenet-indexing-trial-day-one-100202/

Attorney-General Michael Atkinson's Backﬂip No Consolation
http://pirateparty.org.au/attorney-general-michael-atkinson-backflip-no-consolation

WikiLeaks whistleblower site (still) in temporary shutdown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8490867.stm

Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/google-seeks-nsa-help/

Grandma endures wrongful ISP piracy suspension
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10444879-261.html
Sent in by Weirdwolf & Morpse

UK government enlists public to spot terror Web sites
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/334806

Nearly 1,000 Olympic security cameras go live
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/02/01/bc-olympic-security-cameras.html

Denmark adopts ODF and PDF/A
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,40016263,00.htm

Rights group argues against human gene patent
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6115MP20100202
Sent in by shinyblackroses

Pirate Party News:

Russian Pirate Party elects first official leadership
http://www.pp-international.net/node/465

Three Strikes in France will act on 25.000 Users Daily

Idee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:58:02 GMT

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gulli.com%2Fnews%2Ffrankreich-ermittlung-von-25-000-filesharern-t-glich-2010-01-27&sl=de&tl=en
(I have to apologise, it's translated)

In short: There is a company in France which will do it's very best protecting the copyright. They say they have the capability to come up with 25k users each day who violate the copyright. The firm can send 10k "Red Cards" each day.

Well, best is to let it happen!
In 100 days 800k Users have the third "Red Card" and where abandoned from the net. 800k users are quite much if they can't look online for jobs or get another part of there studium at university. 800k users against Sarkozy's next "election".

800k people will vote for the PIRATES!
(alone in 100 days)
=> If it is going on...no one will chat in france language via internet.

End of Free Internet Communication in Germany?...One Step of ACTA?

Idee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:46:09 GMT

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.1und1.de%2F2010%2F01%2F22%2Fdas_ende_der_freien_kommunikation_im_internet%2F&sl=de&tl=en
(I have to apologise, it ist translated from google.)

To cut a long story short: Providers will have to look through all files to protect youth living in the internet.

Here is a pdf also translated from the concept to work on...it is not ready yet, though the providers can make their statement:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.odem.org%2F2010%2F01%2F12%2FArbeitsentwurf-JMStV--Stand-2009-12-07.pdf&sl=de&tl=en
(1&1 did not agree with this paper.)

Is there anything comparable in Sweden? I think it could be a step of ACTA.

Three Strikes Law "strikes" back

Idee — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:49:06 GMT

Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) is supposed to have violated three times the copyright
first strike
"Its beginning took it all with a song of the band MGMT, which were used in a Wahlclip." (Wahlclip = clip for party campain)
second strike
"They hastily removed the logo of the original copyright holder and stated instead that the film was produced by the "audiovisual media service" of the president. Shortly thereafter they brought several hundred copies of documentation among the people. The original manufacturer - Galaxy Press - had sold only 50 copies. Sarkozy's party had brought more than 400 illegal copies on the road."
third strike
"Many feverish with joy by this fact already. They hoped for a third violation. The wait seems to be rewarded. As recently became known, the UMP has infringed the third time in a row, the copyright of an artist. This time it's a video clip, singing in which some politicians of the UMP. The problem is simple: The music was not properly licensed."

I have to apologise that it is a google translation from a German "News Ticker" gulli.

Gender quota, pirates version

Arvid-DE — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:33:03 GMT

After being dicusud in mny ways, the german prirate party will not implment a gender quota in any way.
This is because the pirates defines and understand themselves as non-dicriminating in respect to gender-relation in-between party members.

This results in the fact, that the gender of a member is not tracked at all. We can't tell how many menbers are male or female. We could only guess.

I asked Amelia Andersdotter why you did implemt a quota and receivied this answer:

A gender quota on the election list is good to show
representativeness. Statistically, women vote more for women and men
vote more for men. Also, having both women and men on the list
increases the chances of everyone feeling more "at home" on the list.
Having an all-male list would make people feel excluded.

The quota is currently implemented at 30/70, which is bad because its
not enough. 40/60 is what is generally considered to be "equal". It's
going to be implemented so that we put at least 40% but no more than
60% female candidates on our lists.

As i can see, the only reason for this quota seems to become more "electable".
Not being a friend of gender quotas at all, i am more then slightly confused.

Perheaps someone might tell me the why this decision has been established and what benefit you are looking forward to receive from it.

Greeting from Germany,

Arvid-DE

Pirate Party Radio

rantmedia — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:13:56 GMT

Hi, my name is James O'Brien and I host Pirate Party Radio. This show is the official Radio show of Pirate Party of Canada but I talk about issues and news stories that affect all of the Pirate Party organizations around the world especially Sweden! We are up to episode #5 so take a listen and enjoy! Listed below are the topics discussed on the latest episode of the show.

James O'Brien
Host of Pirate Party Radio

---------------------

Pirate Party Radio
Episode 005: November 26, 2009

Download Page:
http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/episodes.php

Introduction:

File Sharing
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1529573111?bclid=1740033160&bctid=1741161010

Incoming Messages

From FatNinja regarding the story about the shutdown of wifi the small community
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/63279
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/100724

News Items:

30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands
http://torrentfreak.com/30000-internet-users-to-receive-file-sharing-cash-demands-091125/
http://beingthreatened.yolasite.com/questions.php

9/11 re-enacted: Wikileaks publishes September 11 pager messages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/nov/25/september-11-wikileaks-pager-messages
Sent by Agent professional

No Doubt sue over Band Hero game
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8343980.stm

Ottawa aims to strengthen Internet child porn laws
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Ottawa+aims+strengthen+Internet+child+porn+laws/2254530/story.html

Company Receives Patent for Podcasting
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/company_receives_patent_for_podcasting.php
Sent in by Mobilediesel

Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/copyright-time-bomb-set-to-disrupt-music-publishing-industries/
Sent in by DC

Spotify Isn’t Ripping Off Artists, The Labels Are
http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-isnt-ripping-off-artists-the-labels-are-091123/
Sent in by DC

Mobile industry 'cannot identify pirates'
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39899832,00.htm
Sent in by DC

Civil Debate on Civil Liberties and Police Cameras
http://www.kcbs.com/pages/5714376.php?contentType=4&contentId=5085618

Senators Sanders and Brown ask White House to make ACTA text public
http://keionline.org/node/698

Pirate Party News:

Pirate Party of Canada seeks Chartered Accountant
http://www.pirateparty.ca/uncategorized/party-status

Closing Track:

Jerry The Mandelbot
http://www.pirate-party.us/content/jerry-mandelbot

Greetings alien visitor!

Björn Felten — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:42:12 GMT

I don't know how you found your way here, but I know that the search engine bots are busy chartering this site, as you probably can see if you click the Who's On link close to the right top -- there's usually at least one bot crawling around at any given time.

Or maybe you are here after an invitation in FidoNet, that not only I come from, but where the present chairman of the Piratpartiet (The Pirate Party) used to be a high profile sysop (you might remember him by his former name, Dick Augustsson).

Whatever the reason, rest assured that should you choose to enter any discussions here, every POV you might enter will be highly apreciated.

In the meantime, to give you some background to the reason for why we now have a party in Sweden, that is totally dedicated to abandoning the idea of Intellectual Property Rights, here's a link you can follow:

http://reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml

Christian Engströms(Pirate Party MEP) English Posts about his work in the EU Parlament and such things

Billy Gellerstedt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:12:44 GMT

I will try to keep this thread up to date, but chances are I will not be able to do it all alone, so if you got something in english that has to do with Christians work in the parlament, dont be afraid of posting them in this thread so our international viewers can read about it to.

Do provide a short summary of what the links are about, ie.. dont just provide a link.. =)

2 posts about the work around the Telecompackage and the amendment 138.

http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/2440/
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/an-insult-to-the-parliament/

A couple of pirate songs

piratesam — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:42:45 GMT

Both are by american ranter David Rovics - http://www.davidrovics.com

These versions were done by a local (Kent) folk Group Driftwood

Black Flag Flying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7euxvwMxSFw

Pirates Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSHxciWJ4Q

Enjoy - Keep the black flag flying....

pirate_sam

Swabbie

Posts: 1

Joined: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:41 am

Private message

Error

Henrik Rydberg — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:16:36 GMT

Error

Just a few ideas

albulnegrului — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:59:22 GMT

Is a long time I wait for something like this to form, exist and manifest. The letters of this announce are not big enough for what important I think it is what I want to say. And I`m sure many of you will agree with me.
The main reason a massive movement like this is hard to manifest is the lack of cohesion.
WE DON`T COMMUNICATE AND WE`RE DIVIDED!
This movement should have a common language for communicating internationally, and should be translated in all international languages, for the separate countries.

IT SHOULD EXIST AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM IN ONE LANGUAGE! Maybe English, since is the most spread international language and almost everybody speaks it (I`m not native English speaker, so I don`t say this to make things easier for me and my co-nationals).
The international website of the movement should have daily news and actions, examples of what goes wrong and what could go better if people support our proposals.
The movement should have few people who are doing only this and leave out of the organisation`s money, probablly donations.
This is not a Swedish, French, German, Hungarian or Spanish matter we're talking about here. Is VERY important for the future of mankind! So, it has to pass the borders of Sweden. Make an international forum for this, not only a sub-forum in English with a few threads. Link it to Pirate Bay, there are A LOT of PPL there.
It should be made much more known to the world! Flyers, posters, meetings and manifestations.
Try to get some important scientists, artists, important public figures on your (our) side! This is a very good method of spread the word.
Get people meet physically, not only on internet, is very important! Organize manifestations.
I`m SURE a lot of people will adhere to these ideas, not only for their rightness, but also because they offer a REAL alternative to the enslaving and disgusting politics everywhere in the world these days. Cover more points of interest for people, in this crisis period (not only financial, but political and MORAL crisis) and people will follow.
Give some examples, give them figures and ideas.
I could speak more, I will give you only one idea that comes into my mind now. I saw on the American pirate party`s page an image with a baby smoking. Might be very funny, but is very infantil approach, it will maybe get a few smiles, but it will also discredit the movement as a serious one. Sorry if I bothered anybody here, I just wrote my 2 cent ideas how they came in 5 minutes.

Peace politics

Henrik Rydberg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:35:45 GMT

To enchore the peoples survival it is essential to secure all life nessesatys.

First of all I encuragge all civilians to subbmisson to other power order than the state. Bank-busissnis, religus communitys and/or freedom under UN law is possible altrnativs.

Military and polise are sopposed to enforce law, order and peace as they do today and those things are inded life nessesitys. (If peace is remowed people will die in war related couses)

Today people can buy life nessesitys on credit. Loans can be repaid to banks but if we lack basic life nessesatys as food people will of stravation or of the violense coused by desperation to get food. The public are incurraged to use there money today to secure there survival of them and future generations.

Survive by securing acces to life nessesitys!

Greetings from Turkey

fkazak — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:40:39 GMT

Hi everyone this is Fazli!

I am a Turkish guy who is a student in the United States. I would like to say that we are as Turkish youth observing what the pirate party is doing in around the world. We already keep introducing what is the pirate party and what is their mission. I can say that, even you don`t have a Turkish website, you have hundreds of thousands supporter. We keep watcing you and wanna be volunteer to spread this idea in Turkey.

Best regards,
Fazli Kazak
B.A. economics
the George Mason University

Hello

lugalgal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:13:43 GMT

Hello from Turkey.Now I'm watching meditarrenean sea with a warm wind. There is a pirate party movement here.But I never saw them anywhere.It is a one month long deadborn movement.Leaders have died maybe I hope it will be better.Hello again...

My human rights

Henrik Rydberg — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:11:46 GMT

Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

I got an right to an international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration of human rights can be fully realized.

Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

I as a religious minority want the international community to force the Swedish authorities to live up to its obligations according to UN human rights article 28.

The Swedish police should enforce the law as it is written.

Our music - Our industry - Our rules

faomus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:53:11 GMT

Hi Pirates,

We think it's time to stop arguing with the major labels controlling the industry. They had their chance and blew it. It's quite strange for how long they're already getting away with restricting and threatening their customers.

Faomus suggests to challenge their ways, we are keen to hear your opinion and want you to get involved. Our project is dedicated to music and not to shareholder value. We want to create more opportunities for musicians to pursue their passion professionally and more influence for fans like ourselves on the market conditions.

We believe that only a fan-driven industry is able to set and sustain fair standards and diversity. Faomus does not want to act politically but we endorse many views of the Pirate Party especially regarding copyright and privacy. Along with the political power music fans should also recognise their economical weight and use it to press for changes.

Let us know how you want to shape the music industry on www.faomus.com/en

Ahoy!

French pirate party.

It — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:51:27 GMT

The french pirate party did 2.06% yesterday, at legislative elections, in the 10th discrict of Yvelines region.

This score is amazing, because they didn't have any budget, they didn't do any flyers and Maxime Rouquet (the pirate party candidat) make the announcement few weeks ago.

This first time for the pirate party is a good start, to be know by electorate

Link of the pirate party compaign in Yvelines: http://yvelines2009.partipirate.org/2009/09/21/resultats-du-premier-tour/

Link of the french pirate party: http://partipirate.org/blog/index.php

Yarrrrr!

It

Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum trials - Whats next? Absurdium

Martinth — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:41:52 GMT

Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum trials - Whats next?

I have a suggestion that pirate party blogs and other pages/forums could be the big djungle drum in trials like these two absurd ones. Whenever and wherever any trial like this comes up I think pp's all over the globe should beat the big djungle drum and force media to hype it.

If this is done in order to show solidarity to the "probably defendants" (ordinary folks), then sooner or later big business cannot enforce their wrongdoings without loosing to much goodwill.

What do you say about this? please write
MTH

Belarus

abukhvostov — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:48:28 GMT

Hello!

My name is Alec Bukhvostov Junior!

I created but not yet registered organization like your party.... So we are not along!

Researchers and their low-volume scientific books and articles

Old Researcher — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:04 GMT

As a retired researcher in the EU who signed away his copyright to publishers for my books and for every article of mine a journal has ever accepted for publication going back to the pre-computer days of the early 1970s, I am in favour of what you are trying to do.

The main political issue is on dowloading music and films, where there is a mass market. Academic publishing is a different ball-game. There are no profits to speak of but, as your website's DRM page link to the long chapter in Lawrence Lessig's online book on Free Culture shows http://libreria.sourceforge.net/library/Free_Culture/CHAPTER10.html#ArchitectureandLaw:Force, all authors – and especially researchers who can't afford an agent - should be worried.

It has been possible for my last 2 books to be downloaded to my computer, though the file has been configured to make it impossible to transfer it to a CD or save it to cloud storage so I could retrieve the file when I change computer. Its effectively fixed to the computer its downloaded into.

So getting a new computer leaves me without my books online. I've tried getting a replacement copy from the publisher, but to no avail. They don't say no but I get led a merry dance that leaves me nowhere.

There is also a lot of Digital Restriction Management to ringfence access to articles in scientific journals, ironically even articles I have authored I cant access to read if either I privately - or my university - don't subscribe to the journals or if I don't fork out the price of an article - to buy my own article! I guess I would have to contact each publisher separately for each such work of mine and ask pretty please may I have a complimentary digital copy of my own work?

We have let all this happen by default.

Any other researchers out there who are in the same position?

How is Digital Restriction Management different from pre-digital restriction management?

Old Researcher — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:12:56 GMT

I've read the statement on your Party website http://www.piratpartiet.se/politik/forbud_mot_drm and sure, IF you can get the EU to create a free internet in the EU by banning the use of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) to ring-fence websites, you effectively undermine all charging of a fee or subscription to access any website in all the EU member-states. Of course, you can still made to pay on websites in countries that have not banned DRM.

Its a bit like saying shops can charge whatever they like for the products they sell but the property cannot be locked at night or weekends, and there is no police force to prevent people coming into your shop and taking whatever they want, still less to apprehending them so the goods can be returned to the shop-owner. Locking a shop is also a kind of DRM - or more accurately a technologically pre-Digital Restriction Management - is it not?

How is the technical ring-fencing of a website any different from locking a shop at night?

The owners have a legal right to sell their stock - thats how shopkeepers make their living. But that right is backed up by deterrents to pilfering and shop-lifting. One of these deterrents is locking a shop at night and being able to call the police, as stealing is illegal and, crucially, there is a system of policing and courts of law paid by taxes to enforce this.

Greetings from Germany

Seriously — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:37:58 GMT

Just wanted to give you a quick hello. Congrats again for the successful European elections.
The German Pirates made it to approx. 1%, which is still fairly good.
Wish us luck for the upcoming German elections in September.

On Internet Censorship and The Right to Information

aseven — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:05:54 GMT

Hello,

First of all I am incredibly excited with what you have started in Sweden, how the Pirate Parties have been spreading all around the globe and thank you for enabling all of us to debate and exchange ideas on issues related to internet freedom through this forum.

I've read your principles and positions regarding the three main issues as you've defined them : copyright law, patents and right to privacy. I've also looked at the international growth of the movement, pirate parties being founded all around the globe, or, well, mostly around the "developed world".

I am not a fan of the highly political distinction between the "developed" vs "developing" world, and I do think that these categories can be misleading when taken for granted. However, it has always been striking to see the actual differences in the ways in which we define our priorities and burning issues, and it has been somewhat surprising to see that the issue of internet censorship is completely absent from your discussions, even though it is not a major issue in EU countries.

By the way, I am writing from Turkey, a country where the ongoing internet censorship has been a major issue in the last 2 years, with -among others- youtube being banned for almost a year. On the positive part, this has layed ground for the formation of various civil initiatives and associations around the defence of our right to information. I sincerely wish that my country will join the pirate movement, but if it does, website bans and the right to information will certainly be at the center of our agenda, and we are not the only people who, before copyright and privacy issues, has to defend its right to access information.

If this movement is to be truly global, and spread beyond the borders of the "Western" world to reach countries such as China, Vietnam, Iran, Cuba, Russia and so on, the issue of censorship and the right to information has to be addressed at some point. I know for example that various forces within the EU have lent support to civil initiatives in Turkey who were advocating for internet freedom.

Governments have so far tried to control and monitor their citizens' use of and access to information through the internet in various ways, by banning websites, monitoring individual users' accounts, emails and so on, and these are partly addressed by your political agenda. I seriously hope that this movement will gain strength also in the "developing" world in countries where censorship remains the main issue and that more organizations within these countries will be formed against internet censorship.

Finally, I would like to share a free patch that was developed by a Turkish guy who I don't know, but appreciate a lot, that once downloaded on your computer, will allow you to access all websites banned in your country. The website was initially only in Turkish, but is now available in English, Chinese, Arabic, and many other languages. You can also report banned websites in your country, they work on it and update the patch.
Here is the "judicial prohibition obliterator" : www.makat.org

Cheers ,

Asli.

Don't Take The Flu Vaccine!

Ingvar2012 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:01:26 GMT

Don't Take The Flu Vaccine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqMK_yu8APg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidicke.com%2Fcontent%2Fblogcategory%2F30%2F82%2F&feature=player_embedded

Hi,I want to know how to form a local party in my country

miclot — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:25:07 GMT

I'm from China,I didn't find my country on the http://www.pp-international.net/,and what should I do?

Hello from England.............

jcw001 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:19:00 GMT

Hi Must be Great to live in a country that people see fit to Vote for Such a party...........

Czech Pirate party

Anezka Bubenickova — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:19:02 GMT

Hi all,

We are just starting a pirate party in Czech republic. Unfortunately we started to late to be able to participate in EU parliament elections, but we are trying to get into czech parliament election in Autumn.
Just now is everything going here as fast as soaped weasels so we don't have much spare time and politics is for most of us terra incognita.
We will be certainly very grateful for any advice we could get.

Regards Anezka

UK Pirate Party

Dark_Ronius — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:31:05 GMT

I would be hugely interested in setting up/rebuilding/setting sail on the seven seas with the UK Pirate Party.

There's a huge anti-corporate feel just about everywhere... yet there's things like fair trade that show people do want to pay the price for those that have worked for it... rather than fat chief executives sitting on their arses.

Anyone else in the UK interested in starting talks/action for some kind of party? ... In particular stunts like the faces of filesharing one I think happened in Sweden... It's almost second nature for people my age (21!) to download music, films etc... but it doesn't mean we don't want to support those same artists. What are they going to do, jail 90% of teenagers in the UK?....