The Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN is going all out to make The Pirate Bay inaccessible to the Dutch public. After successfully blocking The Pirate Bay through court, and then censoring proxy sites that linked to it, they are now demanding that the Pirate Party should be banned from "discussing" how…
The Dutch Pirate Party is taking local anti-piracy group BREIN to court in the hope of overturning a recent order that prohibits the Party from operating a Pirate Bay proxy site. The Pirates claim that the Hollywood backed group is guilty of "legal harassment" and "trampling people's freedoms." They demand…
Today the Dutch Pirate Party had the chance to become the first democratically chosen Pirate Party in a national parliament. Although the Pirates tripled the number of votes compared to last election, it was not enough. Leading up to today’s elections several polls put the Pirate Party at one seat…
Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament last year, but has yet to score its first elected seat…