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| Nov 9, 2024 | This Week In Techdirt History: November 3rd – 9th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, we noted how the FCC’s freakout about Huawei was out of step with the way it ignored the internet of broken things. We were not shocked to learn ISPs were cutting back 2020 investment plans despite all the ... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | Pirate Party Urges Swedish Govt to Stop ‘Copyright Troll’ Invasion | In recent years, millions of file-sharers around the world have been ordered to pay significant settlement fees, or face legal repercussions.
These so-called “copyright trolling” efforts have been a common occurrence in several countries, w... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state | Gustav Nipe, seen here in this 2006 photo, is the chairman of the Young Pirates.
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| Feb 23, 2012 | Swedish Piracy Crackdown: #2 Torrent Site Calls It Quits | On February 1st, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it would not be granting leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay case. This means that the prison sentences and millions of dollars in fines previously handed out to the four def... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts | It is no secret that the US Government has been actively involved in copyright enforcement in other countries, including Sweden. After the raid on The Pirate Bay’s servers in 2006, it became clear that the US had threatened to put Sweden on... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | Reporters Without Borders 'Affirms Support' For Wikileaks; What Could Be Lurking Inside Insurance.AES256? | It was about a week ago that Wikileaks came under fire from several human rights organizations for not taking the proper precautions to protect various Afghan informants. It should be noted that Reporters Without Borders, which had criticiz... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Pirate Party Ramps Up To Invade Swedish Politics | The eyes of the world are often on Sweden when it comes to file-sharing. It was once the home of The Pirate Bay, and also the place where the first Pirate Party was founded. These two pillars have become increasingly entwined over the past ... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | Sweden’s Pirate Party Launches Its Own ISP? | First they helped prolong the existence of The Pirate Bay by donating bandwidth to its servers, and now Sweden’s Pirate Party – a political group focused on copyright and patent reform – has announced it has created a safe haven for Swedes ... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament | When the Swedish Pirate Party announced, back in mid-May, that they were the new ISP of The Pirate Bay, it surprised a lot of people. With their latest announcement, that they will run The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish Parliament, they... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | The Swedish Pirate Party moves The Pirate Bay to parliament | Interesting developments coming out of Sweden vis-à-vis The Pirate Bay, a site that I’m shocked is still around. Do you know anybody who still uses it? I sure don’t. The Swedish Pirate Party—inspiration to pirate parties all over the world,... |
| Dec 6, 2009 | Pirates of the courtroom – game over for file-sharing in Scandinavia? | [Sweden] It’s not looking good for the pirates in Sweden. The usually pirate loving country that spawned The Pirate Bay and the world’s first Pirate Party, is now pursuing illegal file-sharers like it’s 1790 and the outlaws need to be gunne... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Video: This is what Sweden's Pirate Party is all about | http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf
Probably the name needs to change, but Sweden’s Pirate Party has its heart in the right place. It doesn’t aim to give everyone the right to download the latest Modest Mouse album from pri... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Pirates in Parliament | Article content
When Rick Falkvinge mentioned in an online chat site that he had just put up a web site for his newly launched Swedish Pirate Party, three million visitors flocked to the site in its first two days.
That was January 1, 2006.... |
| May 27, 2009 | Pirate Party Backed by Sweden’s Most Prolific Writer | Lars Gustafsson is a Swedish poet, novelist and literary critic whose controversial writings often go against the establishment. For several years he worked as a professor at the University of Texas teaching philosophy and creative writing,... |
| May 6, 2009 | Pirate Party 3rd Largest Political Party in Sweden | The explosive growth rate displayed after the Pirate Bay verdict has skyrocketed the Pirate Party’s member count and today they’ve surpassed that of the Center Party. Of all the established parties only the Social Democratic Party and the M... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Sweden Considers Police Action Against File-Sharers | Swedish file-sharers have traditionally enjoyed a certain amount of freedom, but that could all change if the government gets its way. At the moment, the police can’t go after uploaders of copyright works, unless their activities could attr... |
| Jan 17, 2009 | Young Pirates get Government Funding | Ung Pirat, or ‘Young Pirate’, is the youth organization associated with the Swedish pirate party. Yesterday it was a big day for the group, getting 1,325,744 Swedish Krona (Approx €121,900, or $161,700 US) from the national board for youth ... |
| Dec 26, 2008 | Pirate Party Gets Massive Support in Sweden | When the Swedish Pirate Party was launched three years ago, the majority of the mainstream press viewed them with skepticism, with some simply laughing them away. Times have changed though. As the government works to introduce harsher copyr... |
| Dec 11, 2008 | Pirate Parties are “A Classic Civil Rights Movement” | It was almost three years ago that the first Pirate Party was formed in Sweden. Its aim is to deal with over-reaching copyright law, and this is exactly what the Pirate Party stands for in most people’s minds. But there is more.
In recent t... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Sweden to Introduce Controversial Anti-Piracy Law | The law will make it easier for copyright holders to get a court order in order to force ISPs to release the customer info linked to a suspect IP-address. The Local reports that, although the law is based on a EU directive, the current draf... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Study Says Intellectual Property System Should Die | When we write about “Intellectual Property” and copyright, it is mostly related to the entertainment industry. However, the problems are much broader than some would expect. A study, published by non-profit group The Innovation Group (and r... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | Anonymous P2P May Not Deliver — But It Doesn't Need To | Rick Falkvinge, the head of Sweden’s Piratpartiet has just given a new interview, and it’s worth a read. As you might expect from the leader of a pro-piracy political party, he’s rather bullish on the future of filesharing: |
| Jan 10, 2008 | Swedish Politicians Strike Blows at Copyright Lobby | Initially, Karl Sigfrid, and 6 other MPs [Members of Parliament] wrote to Expressen (Swedish, English) to express their opposition to a plan proposed by Cecilia Renfors, a copyright analyst appointed by the Swedish government, in what Expre... |
| Nov 4, 2007 | Swedish Pirates Stand Up Publicly To Stay Anonymous | The bill is part of Sweden’s implementation of an EU directive aimed at reducing privacy, for the oft touted aim of ‘security’ , the security of the intangible State, that is, rather than the individual securities of the citizenry.
In short... |
| Jul 6, 2007 | Sweden To Try And Block The Pirate Bay, Again | Previous entertainment industry-led attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay torrent search engine haven’t been successful, but the Swedish police are still trying to help out. Consequently, next week, the site will be blocked to anyone from in... |
| Jul 6, 2007 | Swedish Police About to Shut Down The Pirate Bay (again) | Piratebay administrator brokep got wind of this addition to the blocklist, which is maintained by the police, and which Swedish ISPs voluntarily use. He said in a response:
“If the police would find anything wrong – shouldn’t they first con... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Swedish Elections: The Pirate Party Sails On | The Swedish Election turned out to be a litlle disappointing for The Pirate Party. However, it was the first time the Ship was in the “open water”, but definitely not the last.
This Swedish election has been special in many ways. It was if ... |
| Sep 11, 2006 | “Pirate parties” raid Europe, US | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Uncork the bottle of rum, because the pirates are coming. Following in the footsteps of Sweden's successful Piratpartiet, a gro... |
| Sep 11, 2006 | Yet Another Pirate Party | Earlier this year Pirate Parties were founded in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Spain, Russia, Poland and the USA.
And of course the International Pirate Party Umbrella organization PP-International.
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| Aug 29, 2006 | The Swedish Pirate Party presents their election manifesto | The program consists of a total of 15 pages, and should be the most concrete and factual of the programs presented by parties running in the elections.
After The raid on the popular BitTorrent tracker “The Piratebay“, the Pirate Party has t... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Pirate Party introduces anonymous internet | Rickard Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party states in the press release:
There are many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet,” says Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party. “If the gove... |
| Aug 1, 2006 | Austrian Pirates Separate from Communists | Austria now has its very own pirate party. Initially the communist party KPÖ presented itself as the national Pirate Party, but it appeared that not all pirates wanted to be associated with the communist ideals.
The Austrian Pirate Party i... |
| Jul 12, 2006 | Pirate Parties on the Rise | In the slipstream of their Swedish counterpart they defend the “right to pirate” and privacy related issues.
The USA now has its very own pirate party (interview), and recently The French founded a pirate party, as well as Italy and Belgium... |
| Jun 11, 2006 | Young Swedes Love Filesharing | 75% of the young voters in Sweden support filesharing, even if it’s illegal, according to a recent survey. This indicates that filesharing is going to be a hot topic in the coming elections.
Over 75 percent of those asked said it was OK to ... |
| May 31, 2006 | The Piratebay is Down: Raided by the Swedish Police | There’s a message on the IRC channel stating:
The site is currently down – Yes it’s the police – No, we’re not gonna close the site (and we have no logs of transfers)
Brokep, a Piratebay admin told slyck:
“We are not sure when it will retur... |
| Mar 12, 2006 | The Piratebay wins 6000$ thanks to TV-Show contestant | Thanks to Petter Nilsson, a candidate of the Swedish TV show Toppkandidaterna (Top candidates), the Piratebay just won over 6000$. Petter Nilsson said earlier that he would donate over 6000$ (20% of the total prize money) to ThePiratebay if... |
