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Pirate Party UK Gets 1.8 Million Visitors in a Day After Pirate Bay Block

The Pirate Bay block in the UK has been having all sorts of effects, though stopping piracy, or even just the Pirate Bay, doesn't seem to be one of them. In fact, just after the block went live, Pirate Bay traffic shot up to record numbers. But it's not just the Pirate Bay that is seeing record traffic...

18 May 2012
19:41 GMT

Swedish Pirate Party Banned from Gaming Show

The Pirate Party was banned last minute from Gamex, Sweden's largest gaming exhibition, after some of the organizers considered they were too controversial to take part in the event. According to TorrentFreak, after they booked a booth as a result of an invitation from the sales people, they received a notice t...

7 November 2011
07:59 GMT

Pirate Party's Perspective on Copyright Monopoly Adopted

The Swedish Pirate Party celebrates its first big victory as they recently convinced the Greens group, the fifth largest from the European Parliament, to adopt their view on copyright monopoly matters, which implies openness, transparency and accountability. “It must be made absolutely clear that the copyright ...

7 October 2011
10:58 GMT

Anonymous to Pirate Parties: We Won't Stop the DDoS

Following reports that Anonymous intends to honor a request from the US and UK Pirate Parties to halt DDoS attacks against the entertainment industry, the group released a public statement clarifying it doesn't plan to do so.Late last week, in an open letter [pdf], the Pirate Parties from UK and US asked Anonymo...

23 November 2010
13:29 GMT

Pirate Parties Ask Anonymous to End DDoS Campaign

The UK and US Pirate Parties have released a joint statement asking Anonymous to halt the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and focus on more legal methods of protesting.It's been two months since Anonymous launched a DDoS campaign, dubbed Operation Payback, against entertainment industry associations...

23 November 2010
02:20 GMT

The Pirate Party Will Host Wikileaks

The Swedish Pirate Party has agreed to host some servers for Wikileaks. The two parties have already signed an agreement and said the Pirate Party will be dedicating several servers at an undisclosed location in Sweden as well as provide free bandwidth to the whistleblower site. A few weeks ago, the Pirate Party said...

18 August 2010
10:58 GMT

The Swedish Pirate Party Is Prepared to Host Wikileaks

By now, news of Wikileaks latest exploit has made it around the world. The site was already a target of plenty of governments and corporations. And the Pentagon wasn’t a big fan either. Now, with the over 90,000 documents on the war in Afganistan revealed, there are some fears that the US military will use any ...

28 July 2010
11:39 GMT

The Swedish Pirate Party to Launch Pirate ISP

The Pirate Party has been taking a very hand on approach so far. Having secured a few seats in the Swedish Parliament and even in the European Parliament, it’s not waiting around and, until it can achieve its objectives through political means, it’s looking at more practical approaches. The Party made the...

20 July 2010
08:55 GMT

The Pirate Bay Resurfaces with the Pirate Party as Its ISP

The infamous Pirate Bay was taken offline yesterday thanks to the sustained efforts of the big corporate content creators. This wasn’t something new for the BitTorrent indexer and, like each time before, the site is now back online with the help of a brand-new ISP. Who would be willing to take on the task after...

18 May 2010
09:41 GMT

Canadian Pirate Party Launches Its Own BitTorrent Tracker

The Pirate Party is starting to pick up steam all over the world with several regional organizations on their way to follow the party's success in its country of origin, Sweden. Standing for a copyright and patent law overhaul and better privacy rights, the Pirate Party has also managed to get a good following i...

28 September 2009
06:47 GMT

Pirate Party UK Gets Official Registration

The Pirate Party, a political organization fighting for copyright and patent law reform, is going from strength to strength having secured a seat in the European Parliament and the German one. Now the organization is announcing that it is an officially registered political party in the UK, having been recognized by t...

14 August 2009
11:27 GMT

Pirate Party Gains Parliament Seat in Germany

Just a couple of weeks after Sweden's Pirate Party managed to secure at least one seat in the European Parliament, its German counterpart, PiratenPartei, has also succeeded in gaining one in its country's government. Jörg Tauss, a German politician, has left the Social Democrats Party (SPD) and joined ...

22 June 2009
03:56 GMT

Pirate Party Secures at Least 2 Seats in the European Parliament

Sweden's Pirate Party managed to win at least one seat in the European Parliament after the elections held this past Sunday. It gained a little more than 7 percent of the Swedish votes and was placed above several established parties. Sweden had a 43 percent turnout in the European elections and the outcome pl...

9 June 2009
02:26 GMT

Pirate Party on Its Way to European Parliament Seats

Sweden's Pirate Party is getting some high scores in the polls and may be able to secure a seat in the European parliament. The party is the third biggest in the country according to polls ahead of the European elections, as Times Online reports, and its popularity is growing, especially after the Pirate Bay tri...

23 May 2009
06:09 GMT


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