Matrix Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 The Pirate Party political movement owes its early success to sticking up for The Pirate Bay, following a raid in Sweden. Since then, it has come a long way. In recent years Pirates have delivered many excellent politicians and Marcel Kolaja, one of the new MEPs, has just been elected as a Vice-President of the EU Parliament. When the Swedish Pirate Party was founded in early 2006, the majority of the mainstream press was skeptical, with some simply laughing it away. But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement right off the bat. Following their victory at the local elections, the Swedish Pirate Party secured a seat at the European Parliament in 2009, with another one being added a year later. The success inspired people in other countries to form their own Pirate parties. In 2014, the Pirate Party kept one of these seats, thanks to German voters. During the last European Election, just a few weeks ago, this number quadrupled to four, showing that the movement is certainly no fluke. While the Swedes were on the forefront in the early years, Germany and the Czech Republic now lead the way, with one and three MEPs respectively. These Pirates in the European Parliament are not sitting idly by. During the last term, Julia Reda was at the forefront of many lawmaking discussions, particularly with regard to the new Copyright Directive. While Reda recently left Parliament, the new MEPs obviously have similar ambitions. It’s clear that the Pirate Party will continue to play a vital role in the European Parliament. The movement can list another achievement too after the first Pirate was elected as a Vice-President of the European Parliament. With 426 votes, Marcel Kolaja was elected with an absolute majority in the second voting round. He will serve as one of the fourteen Vice-Presidents tasked with replacing the President as chair of the plenary if needed, as well as a variety of other tasks. The 39-year-old Kolaja is a Czech software engineer and activist, who’s been active in the Pirate Party since the start of the decade. In his new position, he aims to promote transparency and digitization in the European Parliament. “My role of a Vice-President would be to make the European Parliament more open and transparent, to help ensure that the rules of the Parliament are applied equally to all Members and to work on improvements of the rules where they are currently lacking,” Kolaja says. The newly elected Vice-President also hopes that this experience in information technology and digitization can be used to benefit the European Parliament. “It is my hope that my expertise and insights in these fields will be a valuable contribution in the future Bureau’s discussions on improvement of the work in the European Parliament,” Kolaja adds. In addition to the vice presidency, Marcel Kolaja will also become a member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) and a substitute member of the Culture and Education (CULT) Committee. The three other Pirate Party MEPs were also assigned to various committees. Markéta Gregorová will join the International Trade (INTA) committee. Mikuláš Peksa will be a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE), while Patrick Breyer joins the Legal Affairs (JURI) committee. Needless to say, the Pirates have come a long way since the first raid on The Pirate Bay in 2006, when they were first propelled into the mainstream. VIEW: Original Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pirate Party political movement owes its early success to sticking up for The Pirate Bay, following a raid in Sweden. Since then, it has come a long way. In recent years Pirates have delivered many excellent politicians and Marcel Kolaja, one of the new MEPs, has just been elected as a Vice-President of the EU Parliament. When the Swedish Pirate Party was founded in early 2006, the majority of the mainstream press was skeptical, with some simply laughing it away. But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement right off the bat. Following their victory at the local elections, the Swedish Pirate Party secured a seat at the European Parliament in 2009, with another one being added a year later. The success inspired people in other countries to form their own Pirate parties. In 2014, the Pirate Party kept one of these seats, thanks to German voters. During the last European Election, just a few weeks ago, this number quadrupled to four, showing that the movement is certainly no fluke. While the Swedes were on the forefront in the early years, Germany and the Czech Republic now lead the way, with one and three MEPs respectively. These Pirates in the European Parliament are not sitting idly by. During the last term, Julia Reda was at the forefront of many lawmaking discussions, particularly with regard to the new Copyright Directive. While Reda recently left Parliament, the new MEPs obviously have similar ambitions. It’s clear that the Pirate Party will continue to play a vital role in the European Parliament. The movement can list another achievement too after the first Pirate was elected as a Vice-President of the European Parliament. With 426 votes, Marcel Kolaja was elected with an absolute majority in the second voting round. He will serve as one of the fourteen Vice-Presidents tasked with replacing the President as chair of the plenary if needed, as well as a variety of other tasks. The 39-year-old Kolaja is a Czech software engineer and activist, who’s been active in the Pirate Party since the start of the decade. In his new position, he aims to promote transparency and digitization in the European Parliament. “My role of a Vice-President would be to make the European Parliament more open and transparent, to help ensure that the rules of the Parliament are applied equally to all Members and to work on improvements of the rules where they are currently lacking,” Kolaja says. The newly elected Vice-President also hopes that this experience in information technology and digitization can be used to benefit the European Parliament. “It is my hope that my expertise and insights in these fields will be a valuable contribution in the future Bureau’s discussions on improvement of the work in the European Parliament,” Kolaja adds. In addition to the vice presidency, Marcel Kolaja will also become a member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) and a substitute member of the Culture and Education (CULT) Committee. The three other Pirate Party MEPs were also assigned to various committees. Markéta Gregorová will join the International Trade (INTA) committee. Mikuláš Peksa will be a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE), while Patrick Breyer joins the Legal Affairs (JURI) committee. Needless to say, the Pirates have come a long way since the first raid on The Pirate Bay in 2006, when they were first propelled into the mainstream.
Jogs Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 The change is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 7 hours ago, Jogs said: The change is coming. I've yet to see any Pirate Party representative make a difference . They problem with piracy its illegal most everywhere its just like that guy that investigates for TF is Pirate Party and they do more damage by reporting about it than they help .Julia Reed is a Pirate Party MEP and she fought against Article 13 and she never made a difference . Only place maybe the Pirate Party has any influence is Iceland and that's because there whole government is Pirate Party. Only way they would win the vote in the EU is if people in the EU elected more Pirate Party MEPs than Anti Piracy MEPs and i don't see that happening the media Industry has bought out the vote in the EU they use Europe to do there bidding because they can't get nothing done about it in the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 If you read here this guy promotes Open Source Software not Closed Source Software The European Parliament just elected European Pirate Marcel Kolaja as its Vice-President. Marcel Kolaja (39) is a manager in area of information technologies and a Czech Pirate Party politician, elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 election. He is a member of the Greens/European Free Alliance parliamentary group. His political agenda focuses on removing the barriers to the Digital Single Market, consumer protection and protecting fundamental rights in the digital era. Earlier he has also promoted Open Source Software and campaigned on copyright reform. https://european-pirateparty.eu/pirate-marcel-kolaja-elected-vice-president-of-the-european-parliament/ If you used Linux and Open Source you would not have to pirate software no way . We Penguins done won that piracy fight for you anyway you just have to join us is all. if you want to hurt Big Software hit them were it hurts in the pocket book and refuse to use closed source . Even if you pirate closed source software chances are you will buy it one day , so your just helping out there cause and all software will never be truly free .you will ether pay with it with money or your privacy. Italy is embracing Open source The open source revolution begins: the new guidelines for the acquisition and reuse of software in the Italian Public Administration have been published Public Administrations must publish all code in open source and evaluate existing software before developing new products https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-guidelines-for-acquisition-reuse-software-in-italian-public-administration-d6d5997d3e51 More here https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-italian-public-administration-guidelines-software-acquisition-reuse-dba6c733e1b7 In Open Source were friends with everyone because there is no secrets to steal we think all code should be shared . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 It would be so nice if the Pirate Party actually made a difference in the EU. The government might actually work for the consumer instead of against him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 People who give there real names that associate themselves with piracy are fools and are asking to be watched by the government and soon they get caught in the act most of them go to jail too . Smart Pirates don't do this . I been a pirate since the 1980s and never needed to belong too no party to pirate. Only reason its existed as long as it has is starting with the real scene in the 1970s is because all the people who matter stay underground and anonymous and that is the reason it more easy to pirate in 2019 than it was in 2001 . Real pirates join the real scene , web scene or torrent scene and pirate they don't join no political party claiming there a pirate because they value there freedom and want to preserve there way of life. The GNU Linux Community and The Pirate Party we are fighting for the same things Quote To fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Pirate_Party But The Pirate Party just talks about it and have a bad stigma because they associate themselves with piracy. While the Linux Community tries to do something about it , actions speak louder than words . Many Linux users are Pirates , most all our Distros come with a torrent client pre-installed even and our releases can be downloaded via p2p but we don't feel the need to use our real names when talking about it are joining a political party , If we use our real name its to develop patent free software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halvgris Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 8 hours ago, steven36 said: If you read here this guy promotes Open Source Software not Closed Source Software The European Parliament just elected European Pirate Marcel Kolaja as its Vice-President. Marcel Kolaja (39) is a manager in area of information technologies and a Czech Pirate Party politician, elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 election. He is a member of the Greens/European Free Alliance parliamentary group. His political agenda focuses on removing the barriers to the Digital Single Market, consumer protection and protecting fundamental rights in the digital era. Earlier he has also promoted Open Source Software and campaigned on copyright reform. https://european-pirateparty.eu/pirate-marcel-kolaja-elected-vice-president-of-the-european-parliament/ If you used Linux and Open Source you would not have to pirate software no way . We Penguins done won that piracy fight for you anyway you just have to join us is all. if you want to hurt Big Software hit them were it hurts in the pocket book and refuse to use closed source . Even if you pirate closed source software chances are you will buy it one day , so your just helping out there cause and all software will never be truly free .you will ether pay with it with money or your privacy. Italy is embracing Open source The open source revolution begins: the new guidelines for the acquisition and reuse of software in the Italian Public Administration have been published Public Administrations must publish all code in open source and evaluate existing software before developing new products https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-guidelines-for-acquisition-reuse-software-in-italian-public-administration-d6d5997d3e51 More here https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-italian-public-administration-guidelines-software-acquisition-reuse-dba6c733e1b7 In Open Source were friends with everyone because there is no secrets to steal we think all code should be shared . i don't remember if it was district in france or germany who went open source but stopped after just a few years due to the increased costs. open source / linux isn't every one cup of tea. the increased cost was teaching people how to strive with open source programs. open source is pushing all limits in every way they can since people can modify, secure and release it almost instantly. if someone stops updating it it can carry on with the spirit of the original coder. but best wishes to italy and the new open source team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Closed source software is often better than open-source software. There is usually good support, and a company of software engineers develop it. New versions come out regularly. Open source software is fine, too. Problems can be addressed quickly, but support is often lacking, and there could be many branches of the same product which could be confusing. There are definitely pros, and cons to both. I would not say one is necessarily better than the other, it is just developed differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 8 hours ago, dhjohns said: Closed source software is often better than open-source software. There is usually good support, and a company of software engineers develop it. New versions come out regularly. Open source software is fine, too. Problems can be addressed quickly, but support is often lacking, and there could be many branches of the same product which could be confusing. There are definitely pros, and cons to both. I would not say one is necessarily better than the other, it is just developed differently. Good support maybe if you buy software but ,if you pirate software you get 0 support and your software will most likely get deactivated on some update . that one of the reason i stop posting warez i got tired of giving software support to a whole warez board that didn't know how to stay activated . and most other people that were helpful like I was got tired and quit too. you can buy Enterprise support for Linux too but you have and option to use it for free and maintain it yourself and saying closed source has better support is really a myth because everything on Linux is community maintained and each distro has forums . email and repos were you can get support .. I find Windows Open source to have less support than Linux Open source it just depends on the software a lot times on Linux it gets forked or updated were many projects on Windows just get abandoned . But a lot closed source software you pay money for and freeware closed source is abadonware . With Open source theres always a chance they will start updating again even on Windows . I seen open source projects not update for years then start updating like crazy . But I hardly ever seen any close source software ever update again once they abandon it . And the projects that don't many have turned to software as a service /rentware model were you have keep paying for it over and over again. And you don't own close source ,a lot of times it owns you and your data . MPC-HC was talk of abandonment but it still getting updates and there is forks. classic shell got forked . they a million closed source things that stop getting updates and closed source cant be forked . That why many times when they fixing to close we try to get software to open source it so it can be saved . That's a Windows problem , Windows use to have better support than Linux but not anymore because a Windows 10 release only have 18 months support and they be pushing you toward a new release in just 6 months . If you pirate LTSB you have no support and its not even sold to consumers its not meant to be used by the general public .That's for Enterprise use only . Were a LTS release of Linux have 3 to 5 years support depending on witch Flavor or Distro you choose and you can buy 10 years support for Ubuntu . If Windows still had 10 years support for everyone ,was not beta (full of bugs) and didn't suck data like it did before they made Windows 10 i would still use Windows most likely . I always find it funny when people who pirate windows and don't have support to begin with pull out the old in the past support card from the Bill Gates / Steve Ballmer ERA that's not the Windows your using anymore that ended with Windows 8.1 stop living in the past! Back when I used Windows 10 it was a whole lot more hassle to keep it maintained than it has been using Linux once i got use to it and stop distro hoping and i started using Windows 10 and Linux in 2015 and i dropped Windows 10 after Redstone 3 . I put Windows 8.1 back in and i don't even really use it anymore .It just there taking up space on my drives. 13 hours ago, halvgris said: i don't remember if it was district in france or germany who went open source but stopped after just a few years due to the increased costs. open source / linux isn't every one cup of tea. the increased cost was teaching people how to strive with open source programs. Yes that was Munich Germany and that was then and was purely political the ITs were against it, now the price for using windows has went way up 10 x for some places that were getting a discount.. CERN turns to open source software as Microsoft increases its fees https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/13/cern-microsoft-alternatives-project-open-source-software/ Linux in Munich: 'No compelling technical reason to return to Windows,' says city's IT chief https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-compelling-technical-reason-to-return-to-windows-says-citys-it-chief/ With the end of Windows 7 support you will be seeing many places leaving Windows . Companies they can keep using Windows 7 for a price but even it keeps going up every year. As with the previous version of Windows, pricing will double each year after the expiration of public support for the operating system. Pricing is listed below: Windows 7 Extended Security Updates Year 1 (January 2020 through January 2021): Windows 7 Pro is $50 per device, Windows Enterprise (add-on) is $25 per device. Year 2 (January 2021 through January 2022): Windows 7 Pro is $100 per device, Windows Enterprise (add-on) is $50 per device. Year 3 (January 2022 through January 2023): Windows 7 Pro is $200 per device, Windows Enterprise (add-on) is $100 per device. https://www.petri.com/microsofts-windows-7-extended-support-pricing-announced After 2 years , one year updates will cost as much as a Windows 10 pro key. Even using other closed source OS is cheaper than using windows because Microsoft is the only OS that still charging Money for updates they selling Windows 10 by the month even . Chrome OS is getting Linux apps and MAC is free updates as well. Microsoft makes a ton of money on Linux in there cloud even . Microsoft have been investing heavy in open source . that's how Google made a bunch of money was building on top of open source . All these big companies Netflix , Google , Facebook ,etc be using there own software forks they make from open source to escape from having to pay fees too others. The thing about it you can make your own software . So the possibles are endless with open source . And Governments cant ban your company from using open source ether. Also Russia government is replacing Windows with Linux China goverment is replacing Windows with a custom made OS As far as the rest of China and Russia, only time will tell what happens,. https://itsfoss.com/russia-switching-to-linux/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-military-moves-closer-to-replacing-windows-with-astra-linux/ Also South Korea's Government is Switching to Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/south-korea-swith-to-linux Many are doing it to break out of MS /USA-dependency Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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