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Pirate Parties International (abbreviated PPI) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world. It was founded in 2006 and was declared a 'Feitelijke vereniging' (or unincorporated association) under Belgian law in October 2009.

The PPI Wiki is currently hosted by PP-De but will soon migrated to this site. For now it can be found here. The Wiki contains a wide selection of information on PPI, its structure and activities as well as a details on individual Pirate Parties from around the world.

The planing for the International Workshop 2007, which is on June 8th-10th in Vienna (Austria), is nearly finished.

There will come Pirates for every where in the world, for example Peru.

Speeker will be Rickard Falkvinge (founder/chairman of the swedish piratepartiet), Eva Lichtenberger (politician of the european parlament), Rasmus Fleischer (Piratbyran) and more ...

Interested to come ??

Vitsit the International Workshop 2007 on the Wiki and sign the mailinglist.

here is the speaking of Rick Falkvinge (chairman of the swedish
Piratpartiet) at the german pirate party convention from the 20. May 2007.

On YouTube:
Ricks Speech: Part1
Ricks Speech: Part2
Ricks Speech: Part3

For download:
Mirror: Wunschik.net
Mirror: Chaotika.net

Since 20. May the german pirates have a new party executive.

Chairman: Jens Seipenbusch aka nanuk
Vice-President: Sven Riedel aka Sr
Political Secretary: Jan Huwald aka jh
Treasurer: Peter Böhm aka Bierat
Secretary-General: Bastian Grundmann aka NoEwS

[News, News]
The new german Ambassador for Int.PP and Eu.PP is jh (Political Secretary), formely NoEwS.

Last Friday, January 26, one of the coldest days in recent New York City history. It was also the day Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), the members of the Big 4 Organized Music cartel, sought to cast a permanent freeze on the activities of millions of their customers in the US, forcing them to comply with their vested interest dictates, or face potentially ruinous civil court proceedings..

They were appearing at an oral hearing before judge Kenneth Karas in Elektra v Barker, a landmark case lodged by the Big 4 record labels against Tenise Barker, a single New York woman represented by Ray Beckerman, the New York lawyer who runs the Recording Industry vs The People blog.

The forum became a bit of a spambot haven, and needs to be sorted. Unfortunately, the server decided to act up as well - so we're "inbetween" fixes at the moment. It means that all users that have zero in post count, will possibly find that their accounts aren't around after all things are said and done. We hope that you will find your way back, and register a new account, once we're done.

Basically, we need to sweep the database clean from bots, and the only idea so far is to delete all accounts that show zero in post count, and now that we have found a modification that will properly keep the spambots out. Quite possibly, an upgrade of the forum software will be in the works eventually as well.

The existence of legal systems without robust enforcement of copyright law, in countries where software development is a highly robust enterprise, is a serious threat to the free software model.

Open source development has always been an international phenomenon. After all, the killer app of the movement -- Linux -- was born in Finland, and the quintessential dual licensing business was started in Sweden with mySQL. Companies like Red Flag have stepped up in Asia to take Linux into double-byte territory.

The very essence of collaborative development is to break free from arbitrary or geographic barriers like the borders of the nation-state. But attempts to internationalize free software licensing -- the legal paradigm as opposed to the development model -- have been less successful.

Reformers shift battleground to Court of Justice

The European Commission has quietly iced plans to reform copyright levies, just days before they were due to go into effect.

The proposals would have allowed governments to dump levies on electronic media devices. The levies are collected by copyright groups to compensate artists for private reproduction of their work, and the reforms were vehemently opposed by artists and the French.

Reuters reports that a Commission spokeswoman told reporters, “"The Commission has decided more reflection is required on this complex issue. When it is ready, it will bring it on the agenda of the Commission."