[pp.int.general] Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign

[Nuno Cardoso]

Yes, same here, but I see more 101 seeds through DHT and 84 more through
Peer Exchange.
We don't need to rely only on trackers these days. :)

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Rok Andrée
<rok.andree at piratskastranka.net>wrote:

> The tracker is timing out.
>
>
> Rok Andrée
> Sekretar  (Secretary)
> Piratska stranka Slovenije <http://piratskastranka.net>
> (Slovenian Pirate Party)
>
>
>
> On 9 June 2012 14:54, Nuno Cardoso <nuno.cardoso at pp-international.net>wrote:
>
>> +1 seeder here. Good luck!
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Maxime Rouquet <
>> maxime.rouquet at partipirate.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear fellow pirates,
>>>
>>> The Pirate Party of France is asking for citizens to share the ballot
>>> papers of some of its candidates to the upcoming June 10th Parliament
>>> election.
>>>
>>> Please, relay our call and share our ballot papers, to show that
>>> peer-to-peer and sharing are great for good purposes !
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
>>>  * Original communicate in French :
>>>
>>> http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/2012/06/06/p2p/
>>>
>>>
>>>  * Translation :
>>>
>>>
>>> Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign
>>>
>>>
>>> Many of the 101 candidates of the French Pirate Party are asking their
>>> electorate to print their voting ballots, after retrieving it from their
>>> campaign websites. But the success of the French Pirate Party caused
>>> repeatedly overloads on our server, which is vulnerable, as any
>>> centralized system. As a result, we will this week-end distribute all of
>>> the concerned voting ballots via peer-to-peer, and are asking to people
>>> who can, and are willing to, to share them.
>>>
>>>
>>> The French Pirate Party restricted resources prevent it from being able
>>> to support its candidates campaigns, among whose several have made the
>>> choice to lead a "zero Euro" campaign. Even if the scores will obviously
>>> be low, even a symbolic success remains entirely possible thanks to the
>>> French Pirate Party campaign on the Internet, which supplies a website
>>> referencing the candidates and making it possible for people to download
>>> their voting ballots in order to print them [1].
>>>
>>> But the past few weeks have proven that *the centralization of data was
>>> risky* : from the Alsace section's Twitter account being closed for a
>>> few hours due to a misunderstanding [2], to the French Pirate Party
>>> website who failed multiple times to support the visitors load
>>> (especially right after the broadcasting of our televised messages) [3].
>>> Even without thinking about an abusive procedure like the one our
>>> colleagues from the PiratenPartei suffered [4], great are *the risks
>>> that our electorate will not be able to access our server during this
>>> week-end*, and as a consequence will not be able to vote for us.
>>>
>>> As a result, the French Pirate Party puts today to good use the *best
>>> technology for massive, decentralized and censor-proof distribution,
>>> which is not subject to overloading issues in case of great popularity :
>>> the peer-to-peer. By sharing today our candidates voting ballots via
>>> BitTorrent, we ensure that every voter will be able to get his/her hands
>>> on a pirate voting ballot, and support his/her candidate, no matter what
>>> happens during the week-end : accidents or censoring attempts.
>>>
>>> This is also a good way to remind everybody that the technology should
>>> never be demonized as such, and that a lot of righteous and virtuous
>>> uses of peer-to-peer should inspire our politicians at least as much as
>>> its impact on the distribution of digital arts.
>>>
>>> Our team has gathered and checked voting ballots from every one of our
>>> candidates : we encourage people in our electorate who will be printing
>>> their ballots to check them on Saturday. The file to share via
>>> peer-to-peer is currently being released on every communication support
>>> that we have, and we encourage every one willing to protect the
>>> democratic speech to share it.
>>>
>>> The torrent file can be downloaded here :
>>>
>>> https://cap.partipirate.org/pubarch/2012-01-preparation_legislatives/bulletins/des_candidats/bulletins_de_vote_pirates.torrent
>>>
>>> The direct magnet link is :
>>>
>>> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:981c376dd0f103dd1d93bbe77546f89aafa224e6&dn=bulletins_diy_parti_pirate_legis2012.zip
>>>
>>> [1] http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/vos-candidats/
>>> [2] https://alsace.partipirate.org/spip.php?article54
>>> [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBP16ep6cuI
>>> [4]
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/plusieurs-serveurs-du-parti-pirate-allemand-saisis-sur-demande-de-la-france-39760991.htm
>>> [5] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P
>>>
>>> The Pirate Party of France, June the 8th, 2012
>>> Statement released under the conditions of the CC-BY license.
>>> ____________________________________________________
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>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
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>>>
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