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Pirate Party's North American Debut

Posted by samzenpus on from the scuttle-the-continent dept.

adonoman writes "A 25-year-old Winnipeg businessman is the first Pirate Party of Canada candidate to run for federal election. At the same time, the US and UK pirate parties have put out an open letter to Anonymous requesting that they cease Operation Payback's DDOS attacks and focus on taking a legal route to fix intellectual property law."

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  1. Update by airfoobar · · Score: 3, Informative

    O:P have replied to the Pirate Parties (link to pdf on their website), and basically told them to F off.

  2. Re:Yeah, right. by elfprince13 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Only when you can get positive media coverage out of it. Public sympathy is important.

  3. Re:Open letter in Flash? by PeterBrett · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why do we need to allow Flash to read the letter? It's a letter ffs, it should be in text or html format.

    I just posted the PDF on our website

    Yeah, I hate scribd too.

    --
    Pirate Party UK
  4. Re:Pirates create junk for the rest of us by c6gunner · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you actually speak English, or are you just running this stuff through google translate?

    FYI, "copyright" doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.

  5. Re:Yeah, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    An impossibility in itself, the media are the ones pushing for the laws, of course it will always be reported as a negative act.