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

Wed Jun 27 02:01:44 CEST 2012

As I said, If you think it fits under one of the 3 headings, it's
probably appropriate. If it's a pirate party topic, it's probably
appropriate, and can be tweaked to sit definitively in one of the
categories.

Andrew

> 
> --- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers.
> One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth
> anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
> 
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com>
> wrote: 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
>>>> 
>>>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>>>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk 
>>>>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>>>> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>>>>>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk 
>>>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>>>> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>>>>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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>> 
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> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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> 
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Andrew Norton
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