We Don’t Need a Canadian Pirate Party – Green Party Leader
There was an interesting interview with Green Party Elizabeth May about Canada forming its own Pirate Party. Right off the bat, she concluded that Canada doesn’t need a Pirate Party because Canada has the Green Party. Before you think that this is an attack on digital rights, she explains that Canada needs a [...]
Swedish Pirate Party: “Copyright Laws Threaten Our Online Freedom”
Op-ed notes that govts, in order to enforce copyright laws, are slowly restricting our ability to communicate with one another online.
Christian Engström, newly elected member of the Swedish Pirate Party to the European Parliament, has written an excellent op-ed article for the Financial Times criticizing the damage that copyright law enforcement is doing to the [...]
Pirate Party of Canada Currently Seeking Membership
It may have taken a while, but the Pirate Party of Canada is finally on the road to forming. When asked about what’s currently happening, Jake Daynes of the Pirate Party of Canada said that the party is currently seeking membership to help give it some traction.
The manifesto of the Pirate Party of Canada [...]
French Pirate Party Member Refutes ‘Hacker Group’ Name
File-sharers have been called many things throughout the years. They’ve been associated with “bikey gangs”, terrorists and crime networks to name a few. While file-sharers have been named a number of things by the copyright industry and those that support them, that doesn’t mean they like being called these names. A French [...]
Voting Irregularities in Swedish EU Election Negatively Impacted Pirate Party?
Voting irregularities in this day and age seem to be par for the course when it comes to elections. The Pirate Party did celebrate their biggest election victory ever, but could the voter support in the final tally been higher had the irregularities not occurred? One report was recently published that suggested that [...]
Austrian Newspapers Want to Use Data Retention to Enforce Copyright
There’s some startling news appearing out of Austria recently. The Association of Austrian Newspapers have demanded that ISPs hand over IP addresses of those that could be found to be infringing their copyright. In order to do this, they demand the use of the data retention policies of the ISPs.
This may be the [...]
German Parliament Passes Web Censorship Legislation
Controversial or not, the proposed web censorship legislation is now one step closer to becoming law in Germany. All this after one member decided to become a member of the Pirate Party because he opposed it. While the government argues that the legislation is suppose to stop child pornography, many international examples suggest [...]
German Pirate Party Now Has a Seat in German Reichstag
While the German Pirate Party failed to gain enough support to win a seat, fate, it seems, had other plans for the party. A German Social Democrat, Jörg Taussig, was reportedly so fed up with the way the German censorship debates were going, that he dropped his membership as a Social Democrat and became [...]
Will Pirate Party TOR Nodes Be Used for More Than Iranian Free Speech?
There’s been particularly distressing news being reported today from 5 different countries for those who have believed in civil rights on the internet. Meanwhile, it seems that the Pirate Party has chosen today to launch two TOR nodes to help political dissidents in Iran exercise free speech in a country where free speech could [...]
Politician Discovers Equating Pirate Party Supporters to Rapists a Bad Idea
The argument falls on an age old argument against privacy – that if you have nothing to hide, why should you be worried about privacy. Unfortunately for feminist politician for the Centre Party Annika Qarlsson, that argument didn’t quite come out like that. Instead, while trying to make that argument, she ended up [...]
