German Pirate Party

Type: Organization
Name: German Pirate Party
First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Germany: Sinking Pirates

The German Pirate Party held a convention in Neumarkt, Bavaria, from May 10 to 12, and elected its new political director. Katharina Nocuń, a 26-year-old student, succeeds Johannes Ponader, who became embroiled in a row with party chairman Bernd Schl ... [Published Presseurop - May 13 2013]
First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

German Pirate Party aims to revive election fortunes

Germany's Pirate Party gathered Friday just over four months before general elections to chart a course out of a crisis that has seen its poll ratings sink amid internal squabbling.With fighting talk and a new face among those at the helm, more than 1,000 ... [Published Expatica Germany - May 10 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Of Elections and the Internet [opinion]

A peculiar set of statistics from a 2012 study in Germany, shows that an increase in Internet usage by the potential electorate actually reduces voter turnout on actual polling date. The study, reviewed by Oliver Falck alleges that, when broadband Internet ... [Published Zecco - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Pirate Party makes history in Iceland elections

Election, SciTech, Politics, InternetIceland's Pirate Party, which was founded primarily in a bid to promote reform of the country's copyright and open content laws, has reason to celebrate as it has won parliamentary representation for the first time ... [Published Russia Today - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 6 reports

Internet activists turned pirates sail into Iceland's Parliament

Iceland's Pirate Party, a file-sharing activist movement, had wind in its sails in the country's election, becoming the first of its kind to win seats in a national Parliament.The libertarian movement, modelled on its Swedish namesake that has been campaigning ... [Published Merimbula News - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Iceland's Pirate Party scrapes in at national elections

Iceland Pirate Party leader Birgitta Jónsdóttir, speaking at an event in 2011 while an MP for the Citizens' Movement partyG20NWD/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Iceland's latest national election has seen the Pirate Party there narrowly manage to surpass the five ... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Pirate Party Elected To Parliament In Iceland, First Pirate Party Victory In National Parliament

There's been a bit of political upheaval over in Iceland with this weekend's national election. As was widely expected, the "centre-right" opposition parties have returned to power, though many are pointing out that these are the same folks who "bankrupted" ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

German police hope to use new spyware

German investigators are hoping to gain greater access to telecommunications data in order to combat terrorism. But there is controversy over the spyware they want to use to keep tabs on private computers.The application can search a hard drive and download ... [Published Deutsche Welle - Apr 28 2013]
First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Undergraduate Research Day Held at Western

MACOMB, IL - The 2013 Thomas E. Helm Undergraduate Research Day - A Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creativity was held Tuesday, April 16 and Wednesday, April 17 in the University Union.WIU President Jack Thomas and Provost Ken Hawkinson each ... [Published Noodls - Apr 18 2013]
First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Pirate Party founder warns 10pc of private equity gets wasted in patent defence

to bring about change.The Pirate Party International?s 2009 Uppsala Declaration commits it to reform of copyright regulations, patent law and the strengthening of civil rights and freedom of speech.In 2009 the Pirate Party was to bring about a seismic ... [Published Silicon Republic - Apr 05 2013]

Quotes

...The party's new political director, Katharina Nocun, formulated this somewhat less formally: "The Pirates are going to have to work their butts off, looking forward wherever possible."
"We Pirates have come to stay and leave our mark" Bavarian candidate Bruno Kramm said, rallying the party to set down the "basis for a new start" leading to its entry into the Bundestag lower house of...
Those issues included ''21st-century laws'' on online privacy, freedom of information and government transparency. "Many people see Iceland as a kind of laboratory for democracy" she said. ''We have to live up to this reputation.''
...He claims that they are currently only being used in five criminal hotspots in the entire state. "That shows how restrained the police is when it comes to surveillance" he said, adding that it prefers to use other methods, such as undercover agents, to investigate crime

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Software patents come under mainstream politica... [Published Intellectual Asset Management - May 15 2013]
Germany: Sinking Pirates [Published Presseurop - May 13 2013]
German Pirate Party charts course for success [Published Deutsche Welle - May 12 2013]
German Pirate Party aims to revive election for... [Published Expatica Germany - May 10 2013]
Of Elections and the Internet [opinion] [Published Zecco - May 01 2013]
Zimbabwe: Of Elections and the Internet [Published AllAfrica.com - May 01 2013]
Pirate Party makes history in Iceland elections [Published Russia Today - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published Merimbula News - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published The North West Star - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published Cessnock Advertiser - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published Esperance Express - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published Walcha News - Apr 29 2013]
Internet activists turned pirates sail into Ice... [Published Canberra Times - Apr 29 2013]
Iceland's Pirate Party scrapes in at national e... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 29 2013]
Pirate Party Elected To Parliament In Iceland, ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 29 2013]
Pirate Party sails into Icelandic parliament [Published Channel NewsAsia - Apr 28 2013]
German police hope to use new spyware [Published Deutsche Welle - Apr 28 2013]
Interview: Pirate Party founder on the collapse... [Published TheJournal.ie - Apr 20 2013]
Undergraduate Research Day Held at Western [Published Noodls - Apr 18 2013]
Political pirate Rickard Falkvinge is out to pr... [Published Silicon Republic - Apr 16 2013]
Pirate Party founder warns 10pc of private equi... [Published Silicon Republic - Apr 05 2013]
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