Fareed Zakaria just discovered the Pirate Party, which actually put up a very good showing in the recent German elections.
globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.comIts members are tech-savvy youngsters who wear hooded sweatshirts, throw cool parties and play up their group’s name with pirate boats. But don’t let the cool facade fool you. They won 9 percent of the vote in Berlin’s parliamentary elections. That puts them well ahead of the laissez-faire Free Democratic Party, a long-established party and part of Angela Merkel’s established coalition.
The rise of the Pirate Party, which started in Sweden in 2006 and initially gained strength around The Pirate Bay’s legal troubles, is now a multi-country political empire. And when someone up-and-up on international affairs like Fareed Zakaria is fascinated in your story (over such boring things as Palestine formally submitting a UN bid), that’s good news. Folks like Zakaria give credence and credibility to the party’s work.
The Pirate Bay Claims It's Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters
techdirt.comOne of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret location. We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary.
With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.
Artists Will Not Receive Royalties From $675,000 Via Pirate Bay; Labels To Spend Money Elsewhere
Pirate Bay is a widely popular file-sharing community, and earlier this year the site was sentenced to pay major labels $675,000 to compensate artists for royalties lost via illegal downloading. Regardless of the preconceived notin of this action, the labels have decided to use Pirate Bay’s money in new anti-piracy campaigns instead of giving a dime to any artists. Check out part of an article discussing the matter below by clicking “Read More.”
Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament | TorrentFreak
torrentfreak.comThouest Peter Sunde has announced he will run in the European Parliament elections next year. Sunde, the mortal man whoest worked for The Pirate Bay, will partake for the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party. Will he crown the spoils of victor? I say thee nay,
The portable Pirate Bay: 1.64 million torrents in just 90 megabytes
If you’re worried about the number of torrent sites disappearing lately, the Pirate Bay now offers a mobile solution for your torrenting pleasure. 1.64 million torrent files can now be downloaded in a single 90MB file. Yay!
