Seeding on a 20mbps line. If more seeding is needed 2 more 20mbps servers can be added.<br clear="all"><br>Rok Andrée<div>Sekretar <font size="1"> (Secretary)</font><div><a href="http://piratskastranka.net" target="_blank">Piratska stranka Slovenije</a> <font size="1">(Slovenian Pirate Party)</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 June 2012 12:48, Maxime Rouquet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxime.rouquet@partipirate.org" target="_blank">maxime.rouquet@partipirate.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>
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Regards,<br>
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m<br>
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* Original communicate in French :<br>
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<a href="http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/2012/06/06/p2p/" target="_blank">http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/2012/06/06/p2p/</a><br>
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* Translation :<br>
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Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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The torrent file can be downloaded here :<br>
<a href="https://cap.partipirate.org/pubarch/2012-01-preparation_legislatives/bulletins/des_candidats/bulletins_de_vote_pirates.torrent" target="_blank">https://cap.partipirate.org/pubarch/2012-01-preparation_legislatives/bulletins/des_candidats/bulletins_de_vote_pirates.torrent</a><br>
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The direct magnet link is :<br>
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:981c376dd0f103dd1d93bbe77546f89aafa224e6&dn=bulletins_diy_parti_pirate_legis2012.zip<br>
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[1] <a href="http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/vos-candidats/" target="_blank">http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/vos-candidats/</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://alsace.partipirate.org/spip.php?article54" target="_blank">https://alsace.partipirate.org/spip.php?article54</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBP16ep6cuI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBP16ep6cuI</a><br>
[4]<br>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/plusieurs-serveurs-du-parti-pirate-allemand-saisis-sur-demande-de-la-france-39760991.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/plusieurs-serveurs-du-parti-pirate-allemand-saisis-sur-demande-de-la-france-39760991.htm</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P</a><br>
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The Pirate Party of France, June the 8th, 2012<br>
Statement released under the conditions of the CC-BY license.<br>
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