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Sweden’s Pirate Party Doubles Membership
The Swedish Pirate Party has doubled its membership to 16,000 within the last few weeks after the party’s Facebook page was linked by a file-sharing website, according to a report by Sveriges Radio.
The influx of members places the Pirate Party ahead of the Left and Green parties in membership terms.
“If you compare our member figures with the parliamentary parties we are actually well placed. I hope that this bodes well for the election work which will start in 1-1.5 years,” party leader Anna Troberg told Sveriges Radio’s Ekot news programme.
There is one reservation to the party’s booming membership however and that is the fact that it is free to join the Pirate Party while other parliamentary parties charge a fee.
Sweden’s Pirate Party caused an election stir in 2009 when it claimed a seat in the EU parliament after winning 7.1 percent of the votes.
The party later added a further seat following the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
The reason behind the dramatic increase in membership in recent weeks is a result of a police raid on file-sharing website Tankafetast.com in October, which temporarily stopped visitors downloading files.
In protest the website directed all its traffic to the Pirate Party.
The Pirate Party’s membership peaked at just over 50,000 people prior to the 2009 election in the wake of The Pirate Bay trial. This figure however dropped off sharply though 2010 and 2011 as the issue fell out of the media spotlight.
Anders Bergkvist This is interesting. Although I have some background in computer programming, I have never been a hacker. Personally I work under the assumption that FRA/NSA and other such organizations have access to my information if they should desire. Only reason such organizations do not take advantage of the information is because I am not interesting enough. I do not believe it is possible to protect oneself from this unless you have massive resources (time and money) to take precautions.
Politically I believe it is dangerous to centralize control of information to a few hands, whether they are FRA/NSA or any other organization. I am all for transparency of power. I believe this is also the ambition of Snowden and Wikileaks and, in fact, the Pirate Parties.
In this light I do not quite understand all the drama here. Why is doxing considered such an awful threat? Essentially doxing is searching for information and sharing it, right? Isn’t this what Snowden and Wikileaks and the Pirate Parties are all about? What am I missing?
In fact, it would be interesting if you skilled people would like to dox me! Would you find all possible information you can about me and send it to me (I assume you will find the address!)? I’ll even pay you a reasonable amount in bitcoins for your efforts! It would be interesting to know what is hackable out there. Raymond Johansen, Can Tegmen, others?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing Doxing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
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https://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/www-piratpartiet-nere-oklart-varfor/
www.piratpartiet.se nere, oklart varför
Sedan igår 2011-03-25 är http://www.piratpartiet.se nere med förklaringen att man flyttar servrarna till en ny plats.
Anna Troberg skriver bl.a.:
Bahnhof uppmärksammade mig tidigare i dag om att en liten del av partiets it-resurser använts för kommersiella ändamål. Vi hade ett trevligt samtal och därefter fattade jag och vår it-ansvarige beslutet att plocka ner och flytta servrarna.
Ett mycket märkligt påstående eller så är man oerhört långsamma på att fatta. Enligt domarna mot TPB så är det ju bevisat att TPB drivs i kommersiellt syfte, det är mycket stora reklamintäkter kopplat till TPB och dess medhjälp till brott mot upphovsrättslagen. Piratpartiet lämnar bandbredd till TPB och bidrar alltså till både lagbrottet och användningen av it-resurser för kommersiella ändamål. Så då undrar vän av ordning varför Anna Troberg silar mygg och sväljer kameler? För leveransen av bandbredd till TPB är inte avbruten.
Vidare skriver Anna Troberg:
Piratpartiets it-resurser ska användas för att föra ut partiets budskap och till våra interna system. De ska under
inga omständigheter användas för kommersiella syften på det sätt som skett. Ett sådant användande går stick i stäv med vad Piratpartiet står för.
Under inga omständigheter? Med det ”försumbara” undantaget för Pirate Bays, TPB:s kommersiella verksamhet då. Eller talar hon med kluven tunga? Obegripligt!
Edit 2011-03-27:
En kommentar jag skrev igår i Anna Trobergs forum har inte blivit publicerad, jag har tills vidare lagt en kopia här. Det handlar om oskuldspresumtionen kopplat till mutanklagelserna/förföljelsen av polisen Jim Keyzer som såväl Rick Falkvinge, Christian Engström och Anna Troberg ägnat sig åt. I detta fall är det OK att starta bloggdrev och anklaga personer, oskuldspresumtionen är något helt bortglömt när det passar piraterna…
Translated from Swedish to English by Google Translate
Posted on March 26, 2011 by nejtillpiraterSince yesterday 2011-03-25 is http://www.piratpartiet.se down with the explanation that you move the servers to a new location.Anna Troberg review mentioned .:
Bahnhof drew my attention earlier today that a small part of the party’s IT resources used for commercial purposes. We had a nice conversation and then took me and our IT person responsible for the decision to take down and move the servers.
A very strange assertion or you are extremely slow to adopt. According to the judgments against TPB then it’s proven that TPB operated for commercial purposes, it is very large advertising revenue linked to the TPB and its complicity in violation of copyright law. Pirate Party leaves the bandwidth to TPB and thus contributes to both the offense and the use of IT resources for commercial purposes. So then wonder Friend of order why Anna Troberg strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? For the delivery of bandwidth to the TPB is not interrupted.
Furthermore writes Anna Troberg:
Pirate Party‘s IT resources will be used to bring out the party’s message and to our internal systems. They should under no circumstances be used for commercial purposes in the way that happened. One such use is at odds with what the Pirate Party stands for.
Under no circumstances? With the “negligible” exemption for Pirate Bay TPB‘s commercial activities then. Or she speaks with forked tongue? Incomprehensible!
Edit 2011-03-27:
One comment I wrote yesterday in Anna Trobergs forums have not been published, I have so far put a copy here. It is about the presumption of innocence linked to mutanklagelserna / persecution by the police Jim Keyzer as well as Rick Falkvinge, Christian Engström and Anna Troberg engaged. In this case, it is OK to start the blog ran and accuse persons, presumption of innocence is something completely forgotten when it suits the pirates …
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Rickard Falkvinge (PP) gör bort sig i Ekots lördagsintervju – Del 1-3
“För den som tvivlade på att Piratpartiet var ett enfrågeparti framgår det med all tydlighet i denna intervju.
Rickard Falkvinge Partiledare för Piratpartiet i Ekots Lördagsintervju, utfrågare Tomas Ramberg”
Del 2 och del 3
Om ni någonsin funderat på att rösta på Piratpartiet – så borde den tanken flyga iväg i världens fart efter ni hört denna intervju…. Dagens garv!
Rösta istället på sd som INTE accepterar FRA i dess nuvarande form.
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Rickard Falkvinge (PP) makes a fool of himself in echoes The Saturday interview - Part 1-3
“For those who doubted that the Pirate Party was a Single-issue politics, it appears very clearly in this interview.
Rickard Falkvinge Party leader of the Pirate Party in echoes The Saturday interview, interrogators Tomas Ramberg “
Part 2 and Part 3
If you‘ve ever thought about to vote for the Pirate Party - so should the tank fly away in the world’s momentum after you heard this interview …. Today’s tanning!
Vote instead of sd NOT accept the FRA in its current form.
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