[pp.int.general] Police seizes servers of German Pirate Party

[Giulio Prisco]

Recent coverage on BoingBoing and Slashdot:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/21/german-police-raid-g.html
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/2233255/German-Police-Seize-German-Pirate-Party-Servers

/. ""The German police have seized today the servers from the German
Pirate Party after an attack on the French company EDF. Apparently
they are looking for evidence of allegiance with the Anonymous group.
In completely unrelated news, the website of the German police was
down this afternoon."

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Marcus Kesler <marcus at d-usa.info> wrote:
> I used your letter as a template and wrote to the German Embassy in
> the USA as a representative of the Pirate Party of Oklahoma as well as
> a citizen of Germany living in the United States.
>
> If there is any response I will be sure to publish it.
>
> Marcus Kesler
> Pirate Party of Oklahoma
>
> On 5/21/11, Brendan Molloy <brendanmolloy at pirateparty.org.au> wrote:
>> Pirate Party Australia will also be mailing the local ambassador of Germany
>> here on Monday. The letter can be found here:
>> http://pirateparty.org.au/open-letter-germany.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Sebastian Nerz <basti at tirsales.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>
>>>> Von: Ole Husgaard <pirat at sparre.dk>
>>>> An: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>>>> Gesendet: 21.5.'11,  1:33
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The German authorities should be told that this does not go unnotized in
>>>> other countries.
>>>>
>>>> Because of this I have written a letter in English, which I will send to
>>>> the local German ambassador tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks! It would be very, very helpful if the German government would be
>>> forced to react to #Servergate
>>>
>>> The situation is as follows: our servers are back online, every service is
>>> up and running. The police has made copies of a single virtual server, no
>>> member-data has been compromized. We have filed a complaint at the local
>>> court, protesting against the seizures, the data copy, etc.
>>> Oh and we had quite a media hype, including nearly every larger german
>>> media and international media.
>>>
>>> In total I believe that we have shown that seizing pirate party servers is
>>> nothing a government think lightly off!
>>>
>>> Many, many thanks for the international support and the many offers for
>>> help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sebastian Nerz
>>> head of chair Pirate Party Germany
>>>
>>> ____________________________________________________
>>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Brendan Molloy
>> Pirate Party Australia
>>
>> M: +61 434 069 776
>>
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