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

[Philip Hunt]

A link to PPI is good, but using a geocoded ip address to present the
user with their local pirate party also seems to me a cool idea.

2009/10/22 Peter Liddell <p.liddell at pirateparty.org.uk>:
> 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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Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK