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There goes peer n° 2, and proud of it.<br><br>good luck you Pirates.<br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:48:12 +0200<br>> From: maxime.rouquet@partipirate.org<br>> To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> Subject: [pp.int.general] Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign<br>> <br>> Dear fellow pirates,<br>> <br>> The Pirate Party of France is asking for citizens to share the ballot<br>> papers of some of its candidates to the upcoming June 10th Parliament<br>> election.<br>> <br>> Please, relay our call and share our ballot papers, to show that<br>> peer-to-peer and sharing are great for good purposes !<br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> <br>> m<br>> <br>> <br>> * Original communicate in French :<br>> <br>> http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/2012/06/06/p2p/<br>> <br>> <br>> * Translation :<br>> <br>> <br>> Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign<br>> <br>> <br>> Many of the 101 candidates of the French Pirate Party are asking their<br>> electorate to print their voting ballots, after retrieving it from their<br>> campaign websites. But the success of the French Pirate Party caused<br>> repeatedly overloads on our server, which is vulnerable, as any<br>> centralized system. As a result, we will this week-end distribute all of<br>> the concerned voting ballots via peer-to-peer, and are asking to people<br>> who can, and are willing to, to share them.<br>> <br>> <br>> The French Pirate Party restricted resources prevent it from being able<br>> to support its candidates campaigns, among whose several have made the<br>> choice to lead a "zero Euro" campaign. Even if the scores will obviously<br>> be low, even a symbolic success remains entirely possible thanks to the<br>> French Pirate Party campaign on the Internet, which supplies a website<br>> referencing the candidates and making it possible for people to download<br>> their voting ballots in order to print them [1].<br>> <br>> But the past few weeks have proven that *the centralization of data was<br>> risky* : from the Alsace section's Twitter account being closed for a<br>> few hours due to a misunderstanding [2], to the French Pirate Party<br>> website who failed multiple times to support the visitors load<br>> (especially right after the broadcasting of our televised messages) [3].<br>> Even without thinking about an abusive procedure like the one our<br>> colleagues from the PiratenPartei suffered [4], great are *the risks<br>> that our electorate will not be able to access our server during this<br>> week-end*, and as a consequence will not be able to vote for us.<br>> <br>> As a result, the French Pirate Party puts today to good use the *best<br>> technology for massive, decentralized and censor-proof distribution,<br>> which is not subject to overloading issues in case of great popularity :<br>> the peer-to-peer. By sharing today our candidates voting ballots via<br>> BitTorrent, we ensure that every voter will be able to get his/her hands<br>> on a pirate voting ballot, and support his/her candidate, no matter what<br>> happens during the week-end : accidents or censoring attempts.<br>> <br>> This is also a good way to remind everybody that the technology should<br>> never be demonized as such, and that a lot of righteous and virtuous<br>> uses of peer-to-peer should inspire our politicians at least as much as<br>> its impact on the distribution of digital arts.<br>> <br>> Our team has gathered and checked voting ballots from every one of our<br>> candidates : we encourage people in our electorate who will be printing<br>> their ballots to check them on Saturday. The file to share via<br>> peer-to-peer is currently being released on every communication support<br>> that we have, and we encourage every one willing to protect the<br>> democratic speech to share it.<br>> <br>> The torrent file can be downloaded here :<br>> https://cap.partipirate.org/pubarch/2012-01-preparation_legislatives/bulletins/des_candidats/bulletins_de_vote_pirates.torrent<br>> <br>> The direct magnet link is :<br>> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:981c376dd0f103dd1d93bbe77546f89aafa224e6&dn=bulletins_diy_parti_pirate_legis2012.zip<br>> <br>> [1] http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/vos-candidats/<br>> [2] https://alsace.partipirate.org/spip.php?article54<br>> [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBP16ep6cuI<br>> [4]<br>> http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/plusieurs-serveurs-du-parti-pirate-allemand-saisis-sur-demande-de-la-france-39760991.htm<br>> [5] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P<br>> <br>> The Pirate Party of France, June the 8th, 2012<br>> Statement released under the conditions of the CC-BY license.<br>> ____________________________________________________<br>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>> pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></div> </div></body>
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