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2009 August 30
Registering to Vote
2009 August 27
The Government moves the consultation goalposts
2009 August 25
New government proposals on filesharing
2009 August 25
Our Facebook group now has over 4000 members
2009 August 23
The Price of Justice
2009 August 21
Getting to Know You
2009 August 21
Pirate Party Claims of Using Common Sense Under Investigation by Parliamentary Standards Committee
2009 August 19
Volunteers with Key Skills
2009 August 19
Spotify: good for labels, bad for musicians
2009 August 19
rms talks to the Pirate Party UK
2009 August 18
For nearly everyone reading this post, rms will need no introduction, so I'll just say that if it wasn't for Richard M. Stallman we wouldn't have GNU, the Free Software Foundation or the GPL.
A while back, rms published an article about the implications of the Swedish Pirate Party's proposal for a 5 year copyright duration on the GPL, in which he proposed a system of source code escrow.
Well, if I had a penny for each time someone sent me a link to that article over the last week, I'd be sitting here wondering where a quite large pile of pennies had suddenly appeared from. I feel this matter needs some clarification, bearing in mind that we have not yet finalised our policy on copyright duration or the escrow proposal, and rms has been kind enough to provide it:
Homophobia will not be tolerated in this party
2009 August 18
The changes to the forum, a clarification of earlier.
2009 August 16
Hero of the Pirate Party: Gavin Sibley
2009 August 16
Why I'm Happy If They Criminalise It
2009 August 16
Membership Update
2009 August 15
Our Core Beliefs
2009 August 14
Pirate Party surpasses Tories on facebook
2009 August 14
The News is Out
2009 August 13
The Treasurer is Sinking
2009 August 13
Eric on Sky News 7:15
2009 August 12
The party is registered!
2009 August 11
The long-awaited news has finally arrived, the Pirate Party UK is now officially registered as a political party! This means we can raise funds, have Pirate Party Candidates at the next general election, and do all the other things that political parties do. Getting to this stage has been a long process, we've had to elect officers, raise funds, fill out forms, meet with some (very helpful) people at the Electoral Commission, and learn far more about electoral law and the special party funding rules that apply to Gibraltar than any same person would ever want to.
You can make a difference, right now.
2009 August 11
You can make a difference, right now.
Following they government's Digital Britain report, which outlined their plans for a £50,000 fine for file sharing and to introduce site, IP address and protocol blocking, port blocking, content-based censorship, transfer capping, bandwidth shaping and bandwidth capping for net connections for suspected file sharers without a trial or a chance to appeal, the Government's Department for Business Innovation and Skills are running a consultation on their plans.
Joining the Journey
2009 August 11
Enthusiastic support for the party has, up to now, sometimes blinded us to the fundamental truth: there was no party. The Pirate Party UK existed only as an idea. But now it is real, and here to stay for as long as it is needed. At the end of last month, the Electoral Commission confirmed the registration. You can see the PPUK entry on...
Pirate Party set for success in Germany
2009 August 10
The new website is here!
2009 August 09