[pp.int.general] copywrongs initiative - status update 02.02.2014

[Torben Lechner]

Status-update regarding spreading - 02.02.2014 (compared to the 01.30.2014):

- spreading actions:
-- the dutch pirates added the link to their monthly newsletter to prompt people to fill out the questionaire
-- more threads started on message boards
-- more copyright-critical non-end-users incorporated

- statistics - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/copywrongs.eu :
-- Global alexa rank clearly improved from 585,656 to 551,152; so we jumped approximately 35.000 positions ahead within a couple of days ^^ ...

- important strategic note:
[url=http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/index_en.htm]The day before yesterday the european commission postponed the deadline by 1 month[/url], so
we have 1 more month time to reply; [b]new deadline is the 5th of March[/b]

Be sure that the european commission didn't do this because of spontaneously discovered democratic charity !
Amelia assumes it's also to get more rightsholder mobilisation. collecting agencies now urging members to respond.
So, we see 2 things here:
Obviously we had some effect with our copywrongs-initiative.
It's very important, that we promote copywrongs.eu even more !
Look in the spreading pad - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU - there's work to be done and there are not enough pirates
doing it. That's why in the pad you only find entries of spreading actions of the czech, swedish, austrian, german and dutch pirates ! But we're 28 pirate parties in the EU !
What we must acchieve is, that in each one of the 28 EU member states there are at least 2 pirates, who are constantly and seriously working on promotion of copywrongs.eu
based on the structure of the spread pad - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU - and documenting every action there...

So, please help us !
To-Do-List:

1. go in the spreading pad - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU

2. additionally visit http://copywrongs.eu/ and http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/ - is the language, which is spoken the most in your country, covered on both web sites ?
If yes, then go to step 3, if no, then either translate in https://piratenpad.de/p/translate-copywrongsEU or https://piratenpad.de/p/translate-youcanfixcopyright

3. Have your federal executive board already send a e-mail to all pirate party members urging them to participate in the EU copyright consultation via copywrongs.eu ?
If yes, then go to step 4, if no, then write one e-mail and urge your federal executive board to do so; document everything in the spreading pad - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU

4. Do you find a web banner set in the language, which is spoken the most in your country, in the spreading pad - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU ?
If yes, then go to step 5, if no, then create one and post it in the spreading pad; here is the editable web template for it: https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/wiki/images/0/0d/Copywrongs_web_banner.zip
Of course, if you want, you can create a totally new one; here's an inspiration for this http://i.imgur.com/WLLlk6i.png - it says "vote on copyright" in the header and as you can see,
it's designed a bit different... (no glow, calmer background)

5. Head for super nodes ! (people/accounts with MANY followers)
NOONE did this so far, although it's so efficient & effective !
[b]Try to make big youtubers make a video about copywrongs.eu[/b]
Try to make big tumblrer (!?) tumblr about copywrongs.eu
Try to make big twitterers twitter about copywrongs.eu
you get it...

6. Head for wikipedia of the language, which is spoken the most in your country !
Try to make wikipedia place one of the youcan.fixcopyright-web banners - http://fixcopyright.eu/resources/ - on wikipedia and link to youcan.fixcopyright.eu with it !

7. Head for criminalized filesharing and streaming websites (the bigger the web site the better) !
You all know them - the places where you can see the newest cinema movies for free,
the places where you get the link to the download of the movie/software/music album/ebook/etc. you are looking for
The Cyberlockers, the torrent indexes, the file meta-seach-engines, the warez sites, etc. GO FOR IT !
Try to make these platforms place one of our copywrongs-web banners on their main site and link to copywrongs.eu with it !
Befor almost 2 weeks in Germany we had a great success with this approach; we've contacted the team behind kinox.to via web contact formular
and asked them to support distribution of copywrongs.eu by a web banner, and they did so: http://kinox.to/
kinox.to is a criminalized movie streaming site in german, which has at least 1 million visitors daily !
You can do this too ! Here's a cover letter template in english for it, which you can translate if necessary - https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU-gidshtz-english/timeslider#59 - like everything you can find this link in the spread pad !

8. Head for the message boards, which are prominent in your country ! The bigger the message board, the better; especially head for filesharing message boards.
Start threads to copywrongs.eu in such message boards. Here's a template in english for this, which you can translate if necessary: https://piratenpad.de/p/spread-copywrongsEU-tftzrzuh4/timeslider#13

9. Send a topic suggestion to newspapers and other medias refering on youcan.fixcopyright.eu and the postponed deadline of the EU copyright consultation !

10. Head for copyright-critical other actors !
Don't let this EU consultation degenerate to a clinch between rightholders and consumers; try to make
the whole broad society participate in the EU copyright consultation, meaning...
- the teacher associations,
- NGOs,
- library associations,
- consumer protection associations,
- internet provider associations,
- online gamer associations
- etc.
There are a lot of appropriate templates for this in the spreading pad (look in the spread pad below).
When you take one of these templates in general it's necessary to individualize it !


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Greetings,
/ aka Oliver