A man from Quebec has become one of the first to be charged under Canada’s new anti-camcording legislation after being caught trying to record the movie ‘Dan in Real Life’. The man – who intended to upload the movie to the internet – faces up to 2 years in jail.
All around the world now, people will be donning tricorner hats, eye patches, and affecting peg-leg walks as they ‘Arrr’ their way through the day. Yes, Talk Like a Pirate Day is here. We set sail from the Pirate Bay, and caught up with the TlaPD‘s schooner for a few words with Mark Summers, also known as “Cap’n Slappy”
On August 28, the Pirate Party of Sweden made their election program official. An introduction stating the ideas and ideology behind their program, the party stated their program for the election in a number of concrete points.
“Steal this film” is a series of documentaries about filesharing, and p2p networks. The first part is about the Piratebay, and their vision on the things that went down the end of May. In this documentary you’ll hear it straight from the Piratebay admins. How the raid went down, what happened after the raid, how [...]
Last week was the Stockholm Pride festival, which is arranged by the Swedish homo/bi/transsexual community. The festival has been a huge success in recent years. It is supported by the established Swedish society – authorities, media. organizations of various kinds back it up.
One thing that has emerged as a concept in the Swedish blogosphere over the last two years is the Bodström society. It obviously derives from the Swedish justice minister Thomas Bodström. The term relates to a society that is going in an Orwellian direction towards more and more monitoring of its citizens, often in a deceitful way.
The Pirate leaders are quite talkative today. First the US Pirate leader, now the leader of Sweden’s piratpartiet.
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