Archive for the ‘Managing Pirates’ Category
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Right now, there’s a bit of confusion about exactly what happens to the mandatory number 19 and 20. We know that we have 19 seats, with full qualification if and when the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.
But the question is what happens before then. Until yesterday, it was crystal clear—it ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
As I sit here and prepare to go to the voting booths, a couple of things strike me.
It strikes me what a fantastic organization of activists we have which allow us to build this together. It has not happened in living memory, that ordinary people without a community have managed ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Friends:
As this letter goes out, it’s 36 hours until the polls open. I thought now is the time to swarm with the strength of a tornado just before the election itself.
For we are many. We are fifty thousand members and fifteen thousand activists.
So many people making a difference
Now we have—after ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
I wake up with the sun at 11. The alarm clock was needless today.
I remember a time when everyone had to work simultaneously. So… unnecessary. But this was before the swarm work model. What a waste! How could people work so stifled? Without creativity and innovation? And so… limited by ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
This close to the election, we're seeing a sample of what the copyright lobby wants. Today, the HADOPI Act passed in the French Parliament.
HADOPI is intended to "protect artists against file sharing." It involves:
People may have their Internet shut off without a court order for three allegations (!) by large ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Hi all,
I've rarely been very personal on this blog. This will probably be my most private and sensitive topic ever. I'll explain why in a minute.
The backgrund is, we're doing very well right now. We're starting to gain momentum for our thoughts and ideas. The time has come to scale ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
This is a brief monthly report of what's happening with the Swedish Pirate Party.
Summary: November has been an intensive month. Sweden is discussing a new piece of proposed legislation that would let copyright monopoly holders find the identity of an Internet subscriber on suspicion of file sharing; this would give ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Liveblogging from International Pirate Party conference
The lunch was Chinese and cost exactly SEK 1337 for the group.
We're currently in breakout sesssions, summarizing our plan for getting seats in the European parliament. The three groups are divided into post-election strategy, major political bullets, and mobilizing support.
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