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Meet Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party MEP
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- As of December 1 Amelia Andersdotter will become Europe’s youngest MEP, and the second for the Swedish wing of the Pirate Party — Piratpartiet, locally — the world’s first and only global political organisation. She says on her website posted, obviously, before she was named as an MEP »»» My name is Amelia Andersdotter and I am 21 years old. I study Economics and Spanish at Lund University in southern Sweden.
Continue reading »Pirate Party Canada Starts a BitTorrent Tracker
The Canadian Pirate Party is one of the youngest Pirate Parties around but they are not too shy to make a statement. Today the party has launched a BitTorrent tracker of their own. By starting a BitTorrent tracker the Pirates hope to show that BitTorrent and filesharing are not a threat, but a great tool for artists to promote their work.
Continue reading »Finland gets its own Pirate Party
|| Politics:- Recently, p2pnet wondered if the takeover of The Pirate Bay by purely commercial interests might have a negative affect on the pro-filesharing, pro-P2P Pirate Parties which are springing up around the world. That remains to be seen but meanwhile, Finland is the latest country to witness the formal addition of a Pirate Party to its political line-up, with Pasi Palmulehto (right) as chairman. And he says the new Finland Pirate Party expects to field at least one candidate in the special municipal elections in Loviisa, in the autumn, according to Helsingin Sanomat , which goes on: “The special election is prompted by the merger of four adjacent municipalities.
Continue reading »Will Pirate Bay deal hurt the Pirate Party?
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 site sadly destined to become just another Big 4 music ’service’ . Its popularity flowed directly from the thousands of TPB fans to whom the site represented openness and freedom.
Continue reading »Britain has its own Pirate Party: official
To the Korporate Kopyright Klans, Pirate Parties were something to be laughed at. A joke. But not any more —- not since the Swedish Pirate Party sent elected Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström to the European Parliament.
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