http://www.piratepartycyprus.com http://www.piratepartycyprus.com http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/data/images/logorss.png 99 100 PP Cyprus en-us No Copyright, Pirate Party Cyprus, 2009. News http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1333158792&archive=&go=news 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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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.

Read More...]]> Admin Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:27:36 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1330923000&archive=&go=news 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!]]> Admin Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:50:00 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1330140822&archive=&go=news 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.]]> Admin Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:33:42 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1327647124&archive=&go=news "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.]]> Admin Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:52:04 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1312045077&archive=&go=news 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.

Read more... or discuss more here]]> Admin Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:57:57 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1304214453&archive=&go=news The Free software foundation has already started a campaign against DRM with a website found:http://www.defectivebydesign.org/.

As well it has been declared as the 4th of May this year 2011 and every year as the Day Against DRM.

The DRM (Digital Rights Management) is been reference to technologies that withdraw/restrict the user from his/her rights against Movies, Music, E-Books, Books, Software and other Digital Stuff like that.

We invite you to spread this day in every way.

More information about the "Day Against DRM " can be found here.

More discussion on the topic...]]> Admin Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:47:33 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1297824413&archive=&go=news
"What if the defendant authorises another to use their Internet connection in general and, unknown to them, the authorised user uses P2P software and infringes copyright?" asked His Honour Judge Birss QC last Tuesday.]]> Admin Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:53 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1295403973&archive=&go=news The House of Representatives in our country Cyprus is examining an amendment of the Copyright Law under which the following will be achieved:

• The burden of proof will be transferred to the defendant and hence it will be for the defendant to prove that the items in issue are not infringing.

ALRIGHT, so in that sense, I must prove that the table I have in my kitchen is NOT stolen!

This is BSA and MS (same thing anyway) lobbying.

This comes in direct contradiction with 6.2 of the European Human Rights Convention, where YOU DO NOT have to prove YOUR innocence!

Your Comments about this Law]]> Admin Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:26:13 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1294962916&archive=&go=news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u7gXNekPis.]]> Admin Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:55:16 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1294864296&archive=&go=news
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Since mid-December 2010, waves of protest have engulfed Tunisia, where throughout the country, people have expressed dissatisfaction with the government of Zineel-Abidine Ben Ali, the current president.

Pirate Parties from at least 27 countries(including PP-Cyprus), deplore the violent reactions of the law enforcement agencies against Tunisians and denounce the arrests and disappearances of many bloggers, artists, activists and political dissidents in Tunisia.]]> Admin Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:26:25 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1292117475&archive=&go=news So tonight was the night to discuss on the topic of Wikileaks. I was involved to the conversation where I was needed to as well, now as much I understand from my point of view is that Pirate Party of Switzerland had to get involved into this so that they have to let Press do their job as much freely as possible and don't have to get involved into their feet all the time or either wise if they needed any further help they would say so...

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This site aims to help visualise the resistance against the phantoms of ACTA. Everyone should see how numerous we are and that we are real people! We need faces! Faces against ACTA! We need your face! Show your face on http://faces-against-acta.net/.]]> Admin Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:15:02 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1285720948&archive=&go=news
If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information.

Stop the Internet Blacklist

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition
DemandProgress.org - Petition to Stop the Internet Blacklist!]]> Admin Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:42:28 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1269060154&archive=&go=news Swiss Pirate Party has recently published their STOPP-ACTA website. This is a portal designed to inform us about and coordinate our efforts against this "international trade agreement" that proposes significant infringements of our civil freedoms.

As a first step in registering your opposition to this treaty, please sign the e-petition and be one more to say NO to the governments that are promoting this monster in their attempt to control the Internet and our modern methods of communication, sharing knowledge and relating to each.

You can also join their forum or use their "Tell a Friend" system to let people know what ACTA is and why we must resist it. Let us gather facts about this agreement and inform the public so everyone can make their own opinion.

• German version: http://www.stop-acta.info/


• English version: http://www.stop-acta.info/

]]> Admin Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:42:34 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1259856414&archive=&go=news [Word document] [Word document Greek] and also in [PDF] [PDF Greek].We have also made a translation in Greek language, translation is made by Filippos.]]> Admin Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:06:54 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1258701030&archive=&go=news
We already create a facebook community here, which has somewhere around 45 to 50 people who already join us and receiving our newsletter every month.As well we contacted several webmasters via email including gamato.info.]]> Admin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:30 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1254845075&archive=&go=news phpBB the forums and how to Moderate them as well.Any volunteers should apply here into this topic.]]> Admin Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:04:35 -0500 http://www.piratepartycyprus.com/?subaction=showfull&id=1254620650&archive=&go=news
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party sits at the top of the list. Below are the Social Democrats (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Left Party, the Greens and the Christian Social Union (CSU). And there, at the very bottom, are the Pirates.
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Opinions?
Or discuss more here.]]> Admin Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:09:58 -0500