Archive for January, 2009

Countries report since last meeting

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Finnish Piraattipuolue – Anton Tamminen The Finnish pirate movement had activism at various degrees for a number of years; the most critical developments for creating a movement was in 2005 or 2006 when IPRED was implemented in Finland with a lot of resistance. Swedish successes inspired Finnish student Matti Hiltunen to found ...

Enroute to fourth conference

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The 4th international pirate conference is about to open in Helsinki, Finland. As I write this, I'm inflight from Stockholm and about halfway across the Gulf of Bothnia. I'm not sure who will be attending, although just meeting the hosting pirates in Piraattipuolue will be a reunion to look forward to. The ...

Swedish Pirate Party, end-December

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

...and here is the verdict of the Swedish Pirate Party by end of December 2008: We had a successful "Join the Pirate Party day" on December 8 where exactly 600 new recruits joined up, that reverbed far into oldmedia (one of the largest dailies had as their top story that PP ...