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US Pirate Party Launches Book

No Safe Harbor in paperbackA common criticism lobbed at the various Pirate Parties is that they ‘just want stuff for free’ and don’t produce anything; that if it were their work, they wouldn’t be so quick to offer things to download. Today, the US Pirate Party took on that criticism, by releasing their own book.

Available to buy as a paperback, or a free eBook download, the book contains 20 essays and texts from 16 different authors, spread across the three core topics of the Pirate Party; Government Accountability and Transparency, Privacy, and ‘Intellectual Property’

One of the authors is our regular columnist Rick Falkvinge discussing the History of Copyright. There’s also a treatise on Fluid Democracy written by National Science Foundation member, William Sims Bainbridge, and tries to demystify the methods used by the German Pirate Party to great success recently. There’s also the EFF’s notes on the 4th Amendment, and the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the privacy section.

The book’s assistant editor, Andrew Norton said that the reason behind the book was “to help educate people on these very important topics”. An understandable sentiment given the recent outrage SOPA/PIPA caused over the past week or two.

The book is available in paperback from Amazon.com or you can download it in several eBook formats from www.nosafeharbor.com

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  • http://travismccrea.com Travis McCrea

    This is a great book (I am not just saying that because my stories are in there, that might actually make it LESS of a great book considering who else is in the book).

    I encourage everyone to download a copy.

    • Anonymous responder #1

      Allright, Nosafeharbor.com is already suffering the Slashdot effect…
      To prevent overloading it any further, you can visit it through
      http://www.nosafeharbor.com.nyud.net/ (CoralCDN, designed to solve exactly this)

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      It’s excellent, very professional right from the get go, very well done. All of you should be proud of yourselves, particularly for practicing what you preach. I wish the Pirate parties worldwide had much more pull and were much less of a joke, things are progressing but not nearly fast enough!

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  • PlatinumC

    Awesome, I may read it through when I have the time ( I’ve gotten way too used with audiobooks lol).

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  • Sebastián Ventura

    Downloaded it and donated money. Please consider this option instead of buying through Amazon.

  • Jon2

    I want to donate but paypal won’t let me. Anybody got an address I can snail mail cash to?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zack-Nelson/1287355169 Zack Nelson

    I read Norton’s contribution of the book about tatical voting, and I must say it does point out a lot of issues in American elections today conserning the two party system.

    I just hope that the GOP dosen’t have a debate in my state. I do not want to put up with the shitstorm of attack ads coming on every commercial break. They’re already invading YouTube.

    • Anonymous

      Thank you. Even though it’s not my best work (it was originally written the day before the 2010 elections), while I was incredibly sick (41C fever and losing 13kg in 8 days kind of sick) I hoped I managed to get things across well.

      Glad you enjoyed the book.

  • Anonymous

    The two party system is what needs fixing first.. however both the Republicans & Democrats (yea right, Democratic?) are probably against such laws and will be more likely to keep eachother in office to prevent that from ever, ever happening.

  • Frank .
    • Guest

      Fight ACTA:

      USA:

      https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK
      http://www.change.org/petitions/oppose-acta#

      EU:

      http://edri.org/stopacta

      UK:

      http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20685

      Belgium:

      http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/belgiumagainstacta/

      United Nations (directly)

      http://www.petitiononline.com/stopacta/petition.html

      Canada:

      http://www.petitiononline.com/actanono/petition.html

      Region: GLOBAL

      http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-sopa-pipa-acta.html

      STOP USA OWNING THE WORLD

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzS5rSvZXe8&feature=channel_video_title
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=related

      Quote below is from torrentfreak.com

      http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-founder-again-denied-bail-high-court-appeal-launched-120125/#comment-420781473

      Ok, the guy is annoying. But I gotta admit he convinces me.

      We all now the movie industries were in it for the long haul but WOW!
      This is a ten year timeline of manipulation by the studios; to engineer a generation of pirates, to manipulate and grow a market, to be able to manipulate copyright legislation to make it watertight, to manipulate governments so convincing them of the necessity to make it impossible for anyone to copy anything, ever again.

      I would go one step beyond what he is saying. I would go so far as to say SOPA and PIPA were a smoke screen, a rouse to deflect interest from the ACTA pact. With ACTA in place it would be illegal to own or share music that is not DRM protected; it would be illegal to make backup archives of your music or movies. Anyone in possession of these, say on an MP4 player found at a search at an airport check in, would be liable to imprisonment.

      I tend to believe that the conspiracy between the studios and the governments is complete. SOPA and PIPA where a broadsword, visible dangerous, something everyone wanted to avoid at all costs…but ACTA is the stilletto, the killing, almost invisible threat, which will ultimately kill ALL sharing and ALL copying with measures so TOTAL, it will make everybody’s head spin.

      As a final thought, the implications I have outlined above are not an exaggeration. We all know how massive the consequences the laws are with regard copyright infringement.

      I would go so far as to predict that in 5 years time, if ACTA passes, possession of ONE copy of a proven copyrighted work will get you the same sentence as being in possession of 10 kilos of heroin.

      In addition to the quote above I would add this:

      ACTA will make it illegal to publish information on how to strip DRM or remove protection from any medium.
      ACTA will completely, as it is written, negate ANY Fair Use policy. Nobody will be allowed to possess, make, or take possession of, a copy of a copyrighted work.
      ACTA will make discussion (websites) of how to circumvent copyright protection a criminal offence.
      ACTA will make it a criminal offence to own, possess or distribute software capable of breaking DRM or capable of circumventing protection on any medium
      ACTA will make it a criminal offence to supply (even for free) a copy of anything.

      Thank you for reading. Act now. Fight it or die.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zack-Nelson/1287355169 Zack Nelson

        While SOPA and Protect IP is now mainstream, the world still needs to know about ACTA. If anyone wants to make flyers, I’ll post them over my school.

        Also, VERY IMPORTANT thing about presenting ACTA to other people! I saw the video from JeepersMedia about SOPA. It is informative, and appears to be well researched, but it dosen’t explain SOPA itself, or why you should care. Don’t make the same mistake about ACTA. If you make a video protesting ACTA, keep it simple, and make sure it explains what ACTA is and why you should give a damn. None of this conspiracy bullshit, none of these ad hominem attacks. We pirates are better than that, and its one of the reasons why American politics is so messed up.

        Video related: http://youtu.be/HriNzsp89lM

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    He is the newest and hottest dj to come out of the south!

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      Any reason for advertisments? And atleast make a decent website before showing it off (no offence, but it’s kinda empty)

  • American Rebel

    Need to start the Pirate party here in the US to go toe to toe with the Reps and the Dems.

  • Alyssa Blindy

    I got it. Will read it through when I have the time.

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  • JMDenn

    Please consider posting the policies in the book at http://www.aGREATER.US. The top Bipartisan Scores are currently a tie between the STOCK ACT, the PRE PLAN TO REFORM ELECTIONS, THE ORIGINAL FIRST AMENDMENT, and KEEP ANTIBIOTICS WORKING. Let’s build our own greater platform. Congress can’t.

  • http://twitter.com/TPBGirl TPBGirl

    Where the hell have you guys been on ACTA!? lol The story came out in 2008, the leaked docs in 2010.

    On TPB…
    “ACTA Agreement leaked! ” http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5425059/

    Now these are the orginal ACTA agrrement. Over the past couple of years, lots of items have changed due to what Hollywood wanted, most of the countries would not agree to. So ACTA got shoved to the back burner for a long time.

    CNET had a good article on it in 2010 after the leaks..

    “Dear President Obama: Get ACTA out in the open”
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-20000480-256.html?tag=mncol;posts

    Another good link for info..

    “ACTA”
    http://werebuild.eu/wiki/index.php?title=ACTA

    ACTA was the only reason I joined twitter, to help fight it. Right now our USA politicians are trying to push the “OPEN” act and its about to move fast!

    SOPA vs PIPA vs OPEN
    http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa-vs-open

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