[pp.int.general] The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party

[Peter Liddell]

Or perhaps a link to a PPI site with all the national parties sites there?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Philip Hunt <cabalamat at googlemail.com>wrote:

> According to Alexa[1], The Pirate Bay is the 110th most popular
> website worldwide, and every day 1 in 140 web users view it. Most of
> these people agree with Pirate Party politics. And Pirate Parties can
> help TPB by preventing governments from closing it down or blocking
> it.
>
> So I suggest that the Pirate Party Movement approach TPB and suggest
> to them that they put on the front page of their website a notice
> worded roughly thus:
>
> Governments and the entertainment industry worldwide want to shut down
> The Pirate Bay. Pirate Parties want to keep it open. If you want to
> help The Pirate Bay continue to exist, consider joining your local
> Pirate Party. {and it would give the URL of the users local PP, based
> on their presumed location from their IP address}
>
>
> [1]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thepiratebay.org
>
> --
> Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
> Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK
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