Η πρώτη επίσημη συνάντηση του υπό ίδρυση Πειρατικού Κόμματος Κύπρου έλαβε χώρα το Σάββατο 1η Δεκεμβρίου 2012 με 7 μέλη. Η ιδέα της ελεύθερης έκφρασης σε όλα τα επίπεδα της κοινωνίας, η διαφάνεια και η άμεση δημοκρατία σε κάθε απόφαση που αφορά το δημόσιο συμφέρον είναι οι κύριοι πυλώνες της ιδεολογίας μας. Η τεχνολογία, η επιστημονική προσέγγιση και η ελεύθερη πρόσβαση στη πληροφορία, όλα στη υπηρεσία του πολίτη για την καλυτέρευση της κοινωνίας και των δημοκρατικών θεσμών αυτής, τα εργαλεία στα οποία πιστεύουμε. Αυτό είναι το όνειρο των μελών του Πειρατικού Κόμματος και αυτό θέλουμε για την Κύπρο.

We have come to pass in front of the Treaty on the European parliament. This time will be organized during long march of the Treaty on 09/06/2012 if you want to participate in this course, then all you have to do is just follow us at 11 o'clock in the morning I've mentioned above. For more information you may apply to the following website: Stop ACTA Cyprus.

The European Parliament�s international trade committee has rejected a proposal by David Martin, an MEP who is drafting the Parliament�s position on ACTA. Martin wanted to ask the European Court of Justice for its opinion on the controversial anti-piracy treaty, but the committee decided yesterday that wasn�t needed and will now vote in June on whether to approve ACTA. Opponents of the treaty see the development as a victory.

In a February announcement, EU trade chief Karel De Gucht said that following discussion with fellow Commissioners, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) would be referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

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A HANDFUL of people gathered yesterday to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), currently referred to the European Court of Justice for scrutiny.

ACTA is an international trade agreement to help countries be more effective against large-scale intellectual property rights violations.

It is designed to make it easier for countries to exchange information on infringement of any intellectual property and stop the marketing and use of devices or products circumventing technology.

This is anathema for people who rely on the internet to get high-quality information fast, by using websites such as Wikileaks, which actually made ACTA public by leaking a discussion paper in 2008.

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The Piarate Party of Cyprus is gong to an event outside of the Ministry of Commerce Industry and Tourism with the slogan "We shall all shout against ACTA because ACTA violates our human and personal rights". Here you can find the event on Facebook to join us!

Today the EU Commission decided to ask the European Court of Justice
about the consititutional compatibility of the ACTA. The decision is
made after big protests against the ratification process in many member
states.

A judicial trial is of course necessary. But this decision is still
extremely strange, both in terms of time and shape. A court statement is
limited to only take into account the so called primary law of the
union, the treaties. ACTA is about much more than this, says the Pirate
Party MEP Amelia Andersdotter.

"Yo-ho-ho! And a bottle of rum! "I do not know about you, but when I hear the word pirates I always think of men with shabby clothes, teeth rotten from chewing tobacco, often with a missing leg or arm, with the typical pirate hat and a bottle of their favorite rum in hand, looking for the treasure of Captain X on a remote island. In recent years we have started talking again about pirates, but they do not even remotely resemble the characters from my favourite children's books.

Today's pirates are among us, they are interested in the things that affect our contemporary daily lives and have ideas on how to change them. The first pirate party in the world was established in Sweden six years ago. Since then pirate parties have been established in 56 countries worldwide, and 21 of them are now officially recognized. In Europe they have already elected two Members of the European Parliament, 15 Members of the local Parliaments and 194 municipal councilors. A few days ago in the Greek media the news appeared that the establishment of a Pirate Party is also expected in the country. GRReporter contacted Anestis Samurkasidis, owner of an e-commerce company, who explained what drove the pirate flag to the warm Mediterranean.

In a deliberately provocative move the Czech Pirate Party has launched not one but two movie download portals. The sites, which offer links but don't host any infringing material themselves, are being launched to protest the plight of a high school student facing a 5 million euro damages claim for linking to copyright works.

In many countries around the world people are falling foul of laws originally penned for the analog world, but which are now being applied to a rapidly developing digital landscape. In the sphere of file-sharing and digital media the effect is particularly pronounced, as a teenager from the Czech Republic has found to his peril.

The 16-year-old from Liberec was accused by the Czech Anti-Piracy Union of posting links to infringing material on his website, acts which the Union claim have caused damages of more than 5 million euros.

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