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Submission + - Pirate Party founder steps down after 5 years

Submitted by ktetch-pirate on Saturday January 01, 2011 @04:29PM

ktetch-pirate writes: 5 years to the day after he created the first Pirate Party, Rickard Falkvinge has stepped down as leader of Piratpartiet, the Swedish Pirate Party. The announcement was made in a webcast with Falkvinge and his deputy Anna Troberg, with Troberg taking on his duties effective immediately.

Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party 438

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @04:30PM from the i-voted-for-the-other-guy dept.

oskii writes "During his visit to the the Swedish capital Stockholm, Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange has struck a deal with the local Pirate Party. The party, which participates in the national elections next month, will host several new Wikileaks servers to protect freedom of press and help the whistleblower site to carry out its operation."

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers (piratpartiet.se) 1

Submitted by Ezel on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:42PM

Ezel writes: The Pirate Party will host several new WikiLeaks servers. This was agreed during Julian Assange’s visit to Stockholm last weekend, and the Pirate Party is happy to announce that everything has been finalized.
Last week, the Pirate Party challenged the other Swedish parties to assist WikiLeaks in its democratic effort. The Pirate Party has been the first to step up uo the plate, and keeps calling on others to defend freedom of the press in Sweden. As a result, WikiLeaks have commissioned a number of new servers that will be hosted and taken care of by the Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party will provide bandwidth and hosting to WikiLeaks free of charge as part of its political mission.

Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by rdnetto on Friday July 02, 2010 @09:02AM

rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.

Comment Re:Pirate Party is too narrow a term (Score 1) 173

by CrystalFalcon on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:15AM (#29593967) Attached to: Pirate Party Unites In Australia

If we had called ourselves any of those names, this story wouldn't have been here.

Comment Most welcome, Canadian brethren (Score 4, Interesting) 394

by CrystalFalcon on Sunday July 05, 2009 @05:27AM (#28585305) Attached to: Pirate Party Coming To Canada

As an official in the Swedish Pirate Party, I can only wish our Canadian brothers and sisters a heartily welcome up onto the barricades, and the best of winds.

We are changing the world together.

Comment Re:Ninja party for the win (Score 5, Funny) 246

by CrystalFalcon on Sunday June 21, 2009 @01:00AM (#28407869) Attached to: German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party

The ninja parties are there. They just aren't visible in the polls.

Submission + - Swedish State-Owned Media Freeze Pirate Party Out

Submitted by Anonymous Swedish Pirate on Sunday May 17, 2009 @07:57PM

Anonymous Swedish Pirate writes: Swedish state-owned SVT (Swedish Television) held a telecast this evening on the coming EU elections. The hot debate topic was file sharing and the repressive legislation passed this year by the current government. Yet strangely every major political party was invited except the Pirate Party. Rick Falkvinge is furious. People are writing to SVT to protest. Considering SVT is government owned it's not hard, according to some, to guess why the Pirate Party was excluded.

Submission + - Prehistoric man had sex for fun!

Submitted by ectotherm on Sunday April 29, 2007 @03:03PM

ectotherm writes: It turns out that sex has been for recreation as well as procreation for longer than we thought! A study shows that our prehistoric relatives were having sex purely for enjoyment, in addition to reproductive purposes. Details can be found at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269115,00.html So easy even a caveman can do it...

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