[pp.int.general] No Safe Harbor 2 contributions

Wed Jun 27 01:52:39 CEST 2012

Hi everyone

I'd be interested in submitting a chapter about bitcoin and financial
privacy as it's what I work with as my day job these days - would that
be appropriate?

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/26/2012 11:49 AM, Anouk Neeteson wrote:
>> Hi, I'm new to this ML and like to be involved in the PPI. I'll be
>> soon a senior PP member in France. I'm Dutch by birth but live now
>> over 11 years in France where the PP.fr is (slowly) taking off.
>
> Bonjour. Yes, now that the factionalism is over there (oh the fun of
> having THREE different parties there, at one time, I remember it well)
> you can really start working well.
>
>>
>> So far my introduction ;-).
>>
>> To answer your question, aren't there already enough books out
>> there already proving this ?
>
> I think you're missing the point slightly of No Safe Harbor.
> Sure there are plenty of books on this topic. We want a unique
> 'pirate' oriented perspective though.
>
> The first book was about 50/50 Pirate Party members, and external
> writers. This book, we're hoping to have more Pirate members, and less
> 'externals', to literally make it more of a 'Pirate Party book'
>
>> So instead of writing something new better dig up some old and
>> reshape it to make it readable. I hope to have been of any help.
>
> A new look, is a new spin, and can be shaped by both personal
> experience, and new research. We all learn as we go on. I look at some
> of the work I put out in say 2005 (there's one rather dreadful one I'm
> ashamed of at www.piracyisnotacrime.com from then - luckily you can't
> tell which is mine, since none have our names on, so you can't tell
> which I wrote, which Ben Jones from TorrentFreak wrote, and which a
> third friend of ours wrote) and it's terrible. I'd be better off
> starting fresh now, and including those facts in a whole new piece. It
> would take less effort than trying to modify it with the benefit of
> hindsight.
>
> Also, we have some experience in writing, and so can help people -
> other pirates - get started in getting their ideas across. The books
> themselves focus on the three main areas of Pirate Policy,
> deliberately. By collecting existing works (as we did a fair bit in
> the first book), and (preferably) having new pieces covering topics,
> we hope to make a series that can, in theory, be handed straight to a
> person, be read, and have them understand who we are, what we want,
> and why, all in a self-contained document.
>
> Rather than doing a blog (and dealing with hyperlinks, etc) which
> already exists (such as Falkvinge on infopolicy - falkvinge.net - for
> which I'm a contributor) we want to embrace another format, which is
> better for self-contained reading, and off-line reading. This way we
> can better target new people.
>
> And finally, we're also trying to make a point. We have the eBook
> available for anyone to download and share for free
> (www.nosafeharbor.com has the links, and again, we thank PPI for their
> hosting of the files) we also have a paperback edition for sale on
> Amazon. There is no difference in content, only typography (because
> Brad did the typesetting for the paperback, and I did it for the
> eBooks - I'll be doing it for all this time around, while he focuses
> on the editing side, which I'm weaker at, and saves doing it twice).
> Despite that, the paperback version has sold better than we expected.
> At one point it was in the top-5000 sellers overall on Amazon. You CAN
> give away a free version (when I last checked, over 12,000 downloads
> from the links on www.nosafeharbor.com, not counting those that used
> the torrent), and sell an identical physical version and have it bought!
>
> In fact, thank you! I think I've just written the outline for the
> introduction for book 2. See, it's THAT simple :-)
>
> Andrew
>
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2012 5:13 p.m., "roberto aka robske"
>> <evilteddyxl at gmail.com <mailto:evilteddyxl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it be fine if I'd write a piece about education and how,
>>> when
>> coupled with freedom of information, could lead to more successful
>> and innovative people?
>>>
>>> - Roberto Moretti Dutch pirate party member
>>>
>>> Op 26 jun. 2012 04:00 schreef "Andrew Norton" <ktetch at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>> het volgende:
>>>
>> There's a little over two months left for submissions for No Safe
>> Harbor 2. The deadline is September 1st 2012 (so we can have
>> enough time to get it out and ready for a December 1st release
>>
>> Again, we will be splitting it up into three categories 1)
>> Government and Corporate Transparency and Accountability 2)
>> Personal Privacy 3) Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Reform
>>
>> If you're a Pirate Party member, we welcome your submissions, of
>> any length or style. And please, forward this request on to your
>> parties. If you're not a Pirate Party member (and I know there's a
>> lot of you on this list) but still wish to contribute, then get in
>> touch with Brad Hall (editor at nosafeharbor.com
>> <mailto:editor at nosafeharbor.com>)
>>> and we'll discuss it. We're trying
>> to keep it to one non-pirate per section though.
>>
>> The Book will, again, be a free eBook distributed under a
>> CC-BY-NC-SA license and have a physical copy available on Amazon
>> (book 1 is at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468033999)
>>
>> Brad Hall and myself will once again be editing the book, and will
>> try and make it better than the first one! At present we have 9-10
>> pieces, but we want more!
>>
>> Yours Andrew Norton
>>
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