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<div>'''Is this party still alive?i have read a small part of what we stand for and a level of human understanding that this human can really stand up for'''<br />
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Yes. Join us on [https://uspirates.org/chat/ IRC]. --[[user:Itspara | Itspara]]<sup>[[User talk:Itspara |Talk!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Itspara | edits]]</sub> 17:25, 7 June 2014 (UTC)</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4912How to leak2014-03-13T19:41:50Z<p>Itspara: </p>
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<div>How to leak to the press and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is incomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the material you have leaked. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks to make sure you leave little to no trace.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/hide-your-data-workbook/index/ Hide your data] - A guide to encryption using truecrypt. <br />
* [https://www.encrypteverything.ca/index.php?title=Main_Page Encrypt Everything] Encryption encryption and privacy information from the Canadian Pirate Party<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Pirate_Party:Privacy_policy&diff=4911United States Pirate Party:Privacy policy2014-03-13T19:40:57Z<p>Itspara: Protected "United States Pirate Party:Privacy policy" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))</p>
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<div>Learn about us over [https://uspirates.org/about/ here].</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4908How to leak2014-03-13T06:30:40Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
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<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the material you have leaked. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks to make sure you leave little to no trace.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/hide-your-data-workbook/index/ Hide your data] - A guide to encryption using truecrypt. <br />
* [https://www.encrypteverything.ca/index.php?title=Main_Page Encrypt Everything] Encryption encryption and privacy information from the Canadian Pirate Party<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4907How to leak2014-03-13T06:30:30Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
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<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the material you have leaked. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks to make sure you leave little to no trace.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/hide-your-data-workbook/index/ Hide your data] - A guide to encryption using truecrypt. <br />
* [https://www.encrypteverything.ca/index.php?title=Main_Page Encrypt Everything] Encryption encryption and privacy information by the Canadian Pirate Party<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4906How to leak2014-03-13T06:28:39Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
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<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the material you have leaked. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks to make sure you leave little to no trace.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/hide-your-data-workbook/index/ Hide your data] - A guide to encryption <br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4905How to leak2014-03-13T06:23:57Z<p>Itspara: /* Go to the press */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the material you have leaked. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks to make sure you leave little to no trace.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4904How to leak2014-03-13T06:22:08Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4903How to leak2014-03-13T06:21:21Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
* [https://safesource.forbes.com/ Forbes Safesource] - Leak to Forbes!<br />
* [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/securedrop/ The Intercept SecureDrop] - Leak to The Intercept!<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4902How to leak2014-03-13T06:10:29Z<p>Itspara: </p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong> </center><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4901How to leak2014-03-13T06:10:12Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it. Comes with TOR and other potentially useful tools.<br />
* [http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ New Yorker Strongbox] - Leak to the New Yorker!<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<center><strong>Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.</strong></center><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4900How to leak2014-03-13T06:06:10Z<p>Itspara: /* Further Reading */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it.<br />
Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.<br />
* [http://www.nickyhager.info/a-brief-guide-to-leaking/ A brief guide to leaking] - By Nicky Hager</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4899How to leak2014-03-13T06:00:59Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ Cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it.<br />
Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4898How to leak2014-03-13T06:00:23Z<p>Itspara: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
* [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
* [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it.<br />
Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs.<br />
<br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4897How to leak2014-03-13T06:00:09Z<p>Itspara: /* Further Reading */</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
[https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it.<br />
Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs. <br />
==Further Reading==<br />
* [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press]<br />
* [http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4896How to leak2014-03-13T05:59:32Z<p>Itspara: </p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
<hr><br />
<strong>This page is uncomplete and missing needed sections. Feel free to add them or come back later to read them. In addition this page concerns topics of which may be illegal and is provided purely for educational purposes. </strong><br />
<hr><br />
You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
== Get the dirt ==<br />
<br />
If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
<br />
==Go to the press==<br />
Now that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
* Delete any digital trails and copies of the dirty dirt dirt. Use [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] when dealing with leak related tasks<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ tor] - Reroutes your web traffic to help mask your identity and protect your privacy. Used by journalists around the world.<br />
[https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] - Secure chat software. <br />
[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] - An operating system made to forget all the naughty things you do on it.<br />
Remember: Nothing is perfect, there are always bugs. <br />
==Further Reading==<br />
[http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/ <br />
The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press][http://gawker.com/5905402/how-to-leak-to-gawker-without-hopefully-getting-caught How to leak to Gawker] - Gawker Medias guide to leaking.</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_leak&diff=4895How to leak2014-03-13T05:43:08Z<p>Itspara: Created page with "How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured. A guide You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your empl..."</p>
<hr />
<div>How to leak stuffs and hopefully not get caught, slandered, and tortured.<br />
A guide <br />
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You have just stumbled across a stash of files on the Evil Government Agency, aka your employers, computer network. They detail some nasty things that the world MUST know! What should you do first? Go home and think about it. Sleep on it. Ask yourself this question: Is what you found truly information of significant public interest? <br />
What would constitute such information? You probably would know it when you see it, but it would likely be evidence or documentation of crimes or large ethical violations by the government or large corporations and would have the potential for backlash against you in some way that would be quite undesirable for you and maybe even your loved ones (whether it be the press going on a witch hunt to completely discredit you or being waterboarded in a certain part of Cuba). If the press isn't likely to bat an eyelash it probably isn't something you should leak (especially if it causes damage or danger to anyone/anything). It also isn't of true significant public interest if it involves a celebrity and underaged fans, though TMZ may be willing to pay you for that kind of leak (Skip this guide and head straight for TMZ.com) You should be aware that leaking sensitive information may very well be a criminal offense and you shouldn't want to leak just to leak stuff. You need to be willing to risk literally everything for the common good and understand that no matter how safe you are, you are at great risk. Whatever it is, consider all of this and spend time thinking about this. Weigh the pros and cons (in your head or burn the paper). Don't seek advice from others. Don't tell a soul (depending on what it is, a lawyer or priest may be an exception. Only you will be able to figure it out, and if you can't don't tell them either). Spend at least two weeks of considering on how you should proceed before, well, proceeding. <br />
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1) Get the dirt.If your gonna leak something, you actually need the proof. You can't just walk into a starbucks and tell Glenn Greenwald that the US is plotting an invasion of Canada. He will probably laugh at you cause that sounds absurd and also you have nothing to back up your claims (and no actual source material for him to write about). To get the stuff, you need to carefully and deliberatly extract it from the environment that it is in. <br />
* If your find is on a computer or computer network, assume everything is being monitored, tracked, has lojack, and other protections against leaks. Even the printers. Even the power strip(Overkill? Probably. But this should be your mindset now). How can you get these documents? You can move stuff to a thumb drive, but this will leave a trace. Remember, everything is being monitored. Be creative, perhaps you could use a cheap camera to take pictures of documents or film any video. Though if there is a large amount of data, you might just have to take a larger risk and move it to a thumb drive after all or print it out. If you can, use another workstation to do this with another persons account. (Illegal, but perhaps necessary)<br />
* If your find is in a filing drawer, the stuff is probably on paper. You cant copy these... but you can take pictures. If nobody will miss them for a while, take them home with you on a holiday weekend. Go to a kinkos and make copies of them. Pay with cash. Get the papers back before any eyebrows are raised. If this isn't an option, you can again use a cheap camera and take pictures. Try to make sure they come out good. <br />
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2) Go to the pressNow that you have the water your going to leak, you need to bring it to someone with the resources to pour it out into the publics ready eyeballs. This is gonna have to be reworded.<br />
* Seek out (a) news organization(s) that actively look for leaks from the public or has been known to publish leaks(eg. The Guardian, The New York Times, or even Wikileaks. They count too!) This organization knows what to do with this stuff once its left your hands and, depending on your jurisdiction, has legal protections for your identity and stuff. You will still want to protect your identify yourself and if possible remain anonymous even to the leakee. In choosing where you are leaking keep in mind that its probably not a good idea to leak to someone of whos website you visit often at work. <br />
* Once you have chosen your desired leakee(s), find out how to securely contact them. And then make sure you use tools (such as [https://www.torproject.org/ tor] and [https://crypto.cat/ cryptocat] ) to further protect yourself. Some news outlets have special file submission tools which allow you to easily submit content via tor. <br />
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*[[S. 3414]]<br />
*[[OPEN Act]]<br />
*[[S. 968]] Protect IP Act (AKA:Internet Blacklist, PIPA)<br />
*[[HR 801]] Fair Copyright in Research Works Act<br />
*[[HR 96]] Internet Freedom Act<br />
*[[HR 848]] Performance Rights Act<br />
*[[HR 1319]] Informed P2P User Act<br />
*[[HR 2196]] Design Piracy Prohibition Act<br />
*[[HR 3261]] Stop Online Piracy Act (AKA: SOPA)<br />
*[[HR 3699]] The Research Works Act<br />
*[[HR 4431]] Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act<br />
*[[HR 5175]] Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act<br />
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*[[EO Draft - Cyber Security]]<br />
*[[EO 13603]] National Defense Resources Preparedness<br />
*[[EO 13618]] Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions<br />
*[[PDD 51]] National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive<br />
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<div>{{USPP NAV}}<br />
Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.<br />
<br />
==Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video==<br />
*[https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] - Digital library of free books, movies, and music<br />
*[http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Jamendo] - Creative Commons music<br />
*[http://musopen.org/ Musopen] - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks<br />
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenburg] - Public domain books in electronic format<br />
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] - Public domain and Creative Commons images<br />
<br />
===Education===<br />
====Digital Social Learning Communities====<br />
*[http://www.dweeber.com/Intro.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx Dweeber]<br />
*[http://elgg.org/index.php Elgg]<br />
*[http://www.epals.com/ ePals]<br />
*[https://mahara.org/ Mahara]<br />
*[https://moodle.org/ Moodle]<br />
<br />
====Free Learning====<br />
*[http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth] - University level<br />
*[http://www.coursera.org/ Coursera] - Free classes from 16+ Universities<br />
*[http://duolingo.com/ Duolingo] - Learn languages<br />
*[http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Free Online Courses] - University level<br />
*[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy] - Always adding more subjects<br />
*[http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity] - Concentrated on Computer Science<br />
*[http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses Open Courseware] - [http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites List of OCW sites]<br />
:* [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware] - [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT Youtube]<br />
:* [http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ JHSPH Open Courseware] - Johns Hopkins<br />
* [https://www.edx.org/ edX] - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/education Youtube EDU] - Educational Youtube videos.<br />
* [http://open.umich.edu/ open.michigan]<br />
<br />
===Government===<br />
*[http://changeby.us/ Change By Us] - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better<br />
*[http://www.thecity2.org/ City 2.0] - Bringing citizen participation to the surface<br />
*[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/ Civic Commons] - Collection of civic collaboration technologies<br />
*[http://localwiki.org/ Local Wiki] - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge<br />
*[http://www.openassembly.org/ Open Assembly] - Open source crowd-sourcing<br />
<br />
==Our Publications==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/organising-a-regular-meeting/ Organizing a Regular Meeting] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/running-an-information-stand/ Running an Information Stand] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/ Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works] - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
* [[No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics]] - by Various Authors<br />
<br />
==Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/03/a-fair-free-market-or-the-copyright-monopoly/ A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly] - Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/01261417334/apparently-someone-forgot-to-tell-reality-that-entertainment-industry-was-dying.shtml Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying] - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)<br />
*[http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/ Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional"] - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)<br />
*[http://opensource.com/law/12/1/infographic-when-patents-attack-patent-good-patent-profiteering Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering] - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)<br />
*[http://geeksunleashed.me/2012/09/02/interview-amelia-andersdotter/ Interview: Amelia Andersdotter] - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/is-there-any-part-of-the-copyright-monopoly-that-meets-legislative-quality-bars-120812/ Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars?] - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/ Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lawyer-inspired-file-sharing-religion-catholic-bishop-unhappy-120107 MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[https://torrentfreak.com/no-duty-to-secure-wi-fi-from-bittorrent-pirates-judge-rules-120912 No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://getyourcensoron.com/ SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons] - Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/ Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal] - TorrentFreak<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/13013417024/good-bad-new-open-bill-wyden-issa.shtml The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa] - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)<br />
*[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401 The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design] - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman<br />
*[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/18 U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents] - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/do-it-on-the-internet-get-a-patent-sue-an-industry-it-still-works/ Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works] - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/top-rackspace-lawyer-wed-love-to-get-rid-of-software-patents/ Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/its-official-open-source-engine-growth-204661 It's official: Open source is an engine for growth] - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)<br />
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=1&hp The Patent, Used as a Sword] - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-a-better-way-forward.pdf A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing] - by Fred von Lohmann<br />
*[http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/A2KBrazil_bkmk.pdf Access to Knowledge in Brazil] - Edited by Lea Shaver<br />
*[http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm Against Intellectual Monopoly] - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://mises.org/books/against.pdf Against Intellectual Property] - by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*[http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/history/ Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores] - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian<br />
*[http://codev2.cc/download+remix/ Codev2] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://craphound.com/content/download/ Content] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/CarnegieIntellectualProperty.pdf Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation] - by Ariel Fox<br />
*[http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Free Culture] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.freedomofexpression.us/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression.pdf Freedom of Expression] - by Kembrew McLeod<br />
*[http://ssrn.com/abstract=909223 From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age] - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*[http://www.indieguide.com/wiki/page/Indie_Band_Survival_Guide_Ebook Indie Band Survival Guide] - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan<br />
*[http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/quilterheinsreport.pdf INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND FREE SPEECH IN THE ONLINE WORLD: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices] - by Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins<br />
*[http://ahtoapajalahti.fi/uploads/2010/03/jokapiraatinoikeus.pdf Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish)] - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*[http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Little Brother] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.utcourts.gov/general/edresources/docs/Graphic_Novel-Justice_Case_Files-01.pdf NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy] - by National Center for State Courts<br />
*Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution] - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman<br />
*[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html The dotCommunist Manifesto] - by Eben Moglen<br />
*[http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/archive/dixon-review.pdf The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research] - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh<br />
*[http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf The Future of Ideas] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/references/pasquinelli-Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage] - by Matteo Pasquinelli<br />
*[http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book The Pirate's Dilemma] - by Matt Mason<br />
*[http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/ Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets] - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/DMCA_unintended_v4.pdf Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA] - by the EFF<br />
*[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
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<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvfOlPYifY A Garden in My Apartment] - by Britta Riley<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Copying Is Not Theft] - by Question Copyright<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 Copyright: Forever LessOne Day] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[https://gnunet.org/rms2012tum Copyright vs. Community] - by Richard Stallman<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html Embrace the remix] - by Kirby Ferguson<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ How YouTube is Driving Innovation] - by Chris Anderson<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture] - by Johanna Blakley<br />
*[http://www.presspauseplay.com/ PressPausePlay]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/31100268 PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet] - by Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc SOPA and PIPA] - by Khan Academy<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM SOPA Cabana] - by Dan Bull<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html The $8 billion iPod] - by Rob Reid<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The Coming War on General Computing] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html The New Open Source Economics] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
==Privacy==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/appeals-court-police-can-track-cell-phones-without-warrant/ Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant] - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/245229/carrier_iq_rootkit_reportedly_logs_everything_on_millions_of_phones_updated.html Carrier IQ Rootkit] - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/does-surveillance-affect-us-even-when-we-cant-confirm-were-being-watched Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain] - ACLU (Jay Stanley)<br />
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/13/is-the-fbi-using-carrier-iq-for-domestic-surveillance/ Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance] - Forbes (E.D. Kain)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/ Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19669803 Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world] - Denver Post (John Ingold)<br />
*[http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS] - Steve Mann<br />
*[https://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/privacy-questions-accompany-automated-li/240005760 Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners] - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)<br />
*[http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/stingrays-biggest-unknown-technological-threat-cell-phone-privacy Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About] - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)<br />
*[https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/wseltzer/stopping-sopas-anticircumvention Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention] - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)<br />
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-telecom-nsa-20121009,0,5705204.story Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit] - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8 Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network] - Business Insider (David Seaman)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-true-picture-of-the-women-who-face-late-term-abortion/2012/07/27/gJQAxSCjEX_story.html The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion] - Washington Post (Christy Zink)<br />
*[http://owni.eu/2012/07/27/the-known-unknowns-of-skype-interception-christopher-soghoian/ The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception] - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/ TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program] - RT<br />
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57537559-38/u.n-calls-for-anti-terror-internet-surveillance/ U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance] - CNET (Declan McCullagh)<br />
*[http://rt.com/usa/news/government-federal-software-agency-972/ US government spies on federal staffers] - RT<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draft-cyber-order-promotes-voluntary-critical-infrastructure-protections White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections] - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/260980/federal_judge_your_location_is_no_more_private_than_the_color_of_your_car.html Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car] - by PC World (Dan Tynan)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices] - EFF<br />
*[http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL] - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf Locational Privacy] - by The EFF<br />
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp54.pdf Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet] - by Jonathan D. Wallace<br />
*[http://www.aclunc.org/docs/technology/privacy_and_free_speech_it's_good_for_business.pdf Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business] - by the ACLU of North Carolina<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html FBI, here I am!] - by Hasan Elahi<br />
*[http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-domestic-spying-program-that-could-be-tracking-you-right-now?c=cp2 Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now] - by Laura Poitras<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html Three Types of Online Attack] - by Mikko Hypponen<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ Your Phone Company is Watching] - by Malte Spitz<br />
<br />
==Transparency and Accountability==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.carighttoknow.org/10_million $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels] - Right to Know<br />
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/are-millennials-the-screwed-generation.html Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?] - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/ Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating] - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11 Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes] - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)<br />
*[http://endthelie.com/2012/08/18/court-dismisses-case-based-on-state-secrets-privilege/ Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege] - by End the Lie<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/epa-fracking-wyoming-pollution_n_1136907.html EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding] - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)<br />
*[http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-undercover-investigators-animal-enterprise-terrorism-act/5440/ FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists] - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)<br />
*[https://www.examiner.com/article/federal-court-rules-favor-of-ndaa Federal court rules in favor of NDAA] - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)<br />
*[http://grist.org/natural-gas/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/ For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals] - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-terror Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams]<br />
*[http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/ Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs] - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice-criminal-law-reform/hitting-two-birds-one-stone-strategies-addressing-indigent Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying] - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Homeland-Security-s-Intent-by-Jack-Swint-120821-433.html Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War] - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)<br />
*[https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaelliott/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal] - Buzzfeed<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/How-The-American-Universit-by-Debra-Leigh-Scott-120819-373.html How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps] - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/indefinite-military-detention-defense-bill-citizens_n_1146181.html Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens] - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)<br />
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.criminology.com/know-your-rights.gif Know your rights (Infographic)] - Criminology.com<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/ MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iGkaTia8 Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so] - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)<br />
*[http://online.wsj.com/article/AP560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b.html NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear] - Wall Street Journal<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/25/nypd-occupy-protests-report?cat=world&type=article NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study] - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-struggles-to-live-up-to-its-transparency-promise-post-analysis-shows/2012/08/03/71172462-dcae-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_story.html Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows] - Washington Post (James Ball)<br />
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obama-plans-for-10-more-years-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-drone/264034/ Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone] - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever] - RT<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-executive-order-legislation-993/ Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order] - RT<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/03/162209738/senate-panels-finds-anti-terror-data-sharing-centers-were-useless Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless] - NPR (Eyder Peralta)<br />
*[http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/07/25/senate-proposal-for-curbing-leaks-escalates-restrictions-on-intelligence-employees-who-talk-to-media/ Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media] - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)<br />
*[http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/the-boston-fishing-party-and-australians-rights-online/ The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online] - Crickey (Bernard Keane)<br />
*[http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-real-reason-for-obamas-threat-to-veto-the-indefinite-detention-bill-hint-its-not-to-protect-liberty.html The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)] - by Washington's Blog<br />
*[http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-25/same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones] - ZeroHedge (George Washington)<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools The US schools with their own police] - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)<br />
*[http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent] - Salon (Natasha Lennard)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-torture-prison-judge-032/ US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners] - RT<br />
*[http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/ US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords] - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)<br />
*[http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books] - Sound+Noise (Tom)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://lessig.org/blog/d4i.pdf d4i (Declaration for Independence)] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/NetNeutrality_9781849662192/preface-ba-9781849662192-preface-0001.xml Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution] - by Christopher T. Marsden<br />
*[http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age] - by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Beware Online Filter Bubbles] - by Eli Pariser<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1558 Demand a more Open Source Government] - by Beth Noveck<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D1299CC3E46CB378C44D0E39AC6AB7A Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along] - James J. Delaney?<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A8E93E45C42846D11FBE0E3A4B1355A2 Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM Hitler reacts to SOPA]<br />
*[http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/ How pervasive has government distrust gotten?] - by Ivan Krastev<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxyi_3CGrk In Defense of Dialogue] - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY Gerrymandering Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html Hollywood and the War Machine] - Al Jazeera<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=39548FF4687EE675D6C5B234338B3E1E SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock] - SNL<br />
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'] - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM4JupBz_E The power of the informal economy] - by Robert Neuwirth<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k The Trouble with the Electoral College] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMPrzr7aug Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know] - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum<br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<br />
===Court Cases===<br />
*[http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/Pages/default.aspx List of Copyright Cases] - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools<br />
<br />
===Legislation===<br />
*[http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf ACTA] - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/coica_files/COICA3.pdf COICA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf DMCA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424 HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.keepthewebopen.com/ OPEN Act (edits suggestable)] - Congress<br />
*[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf USA PATRIOT Act of 2001] - by Congress<br />
*[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf PROTECT IP Act] - by Congress<br />
<br />
===Philosophy===<br />
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Communist Manifesto] - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels<br />
*[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf From Dictatorship to Democracy] - by Gene Sharp<br />
*[http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf Iceland's New Constitution] - Iceland Constitutional Council<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Institutions vs. Collaboration] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/ The Pirate Wheel] - Pirates<br />
*[http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?] - by yanis<br />
<br />
===Reports, Statistics, and Studies===<br />
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement] - by the White House<br />
*[http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0816/final.pdf Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes] - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division<br />
*[https://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.pdf Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society] - by American Meteorological Society Council<br />
*[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/100921/what-filesharing-studies-really-say-conclusions-and-links/ Filesharing Study Compilation] - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/general/1020/wipo_pub_1020.pdf Guide to WIPO Services] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm International Trade Statistics 2008] - by the WTO<br />
*[http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC] - U.S. Department of Homeland Security<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf Report on Orphan Works] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it <s>[http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)]</s>[http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf KEI Mirror] [http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Maryland Pirates Mirror] [http://www.masspirates.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf Massachusetts Pirates Mirror] [http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Scribd Mirror] - Republican Study Committee<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/reports/s-plan2008/s-plan2008-2013.pdf Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*[https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf The Case Against Patents] - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ The Case for Copyright Reform] - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.pdf Understanding Copyright and Related Rights] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/895/wipo_pub_895.pdf Understanding Industrial Property] - by the WIPO<br />
<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/4f106d0504a7f92f5b000003 Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil] - Patent Opposition Database<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/500e9b8c7718ea0002000018 Revoking An Invalid Patent: The Case of Didanosine in Thailand] - Patent Opposition Database<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*[https://alkasir.com/ Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship]<br />
*[http://www.cvdazzle.com/ CV Dazzle] - Computer Vision Camoflage<br />
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide DIY Mesh Guide] - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices<br />
*[http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Defective by Design] - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives<br />
*[https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page Encrypt Everything] - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada<br />
*[https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/index.en.html FreedomBox] - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet<br />
*[http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)]<br />
*[https://crypto.is/ The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy)] - Crypto.is<br />
*[http://www.un.int/kamal/thelawofcyberspace/The%20Law%20of%20Cyber-Space.pdf The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations] - by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*[http://www.spyfiles.org/ List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country] - compiled by Wikileaks<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/ Who Bought Your Politician?] - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=1971Library2012-12-04T21:30:21Z<p>Itspara: /* Case Studies */</p>
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<div>{{USPP NAV}}<br />
Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.<br />
<br />
==Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video==<br />
*[https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] - Digital library of free books, movies, and music<br />
*[http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Jamendo] - Creative Commons music<br />
*[http://musopen.org/ Musopen] - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks<br />
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenburg] - Public domain books in electronic format<br />
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] - Public domain and Creative Commons images<br />
<br />
===Education===<br />
====Digital Social Learning Communities====<br />
*[http://www.dweeber.com/Intro.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx Dweeber]<br />
*[http://elgg.org/index.php Elgg]<br />
*[http://www.epals.com/ ePals]<br />
*[https://mahara.org/ Mahara]<br />
*[https://moodle.org/ Moodle]<br />
<br />
====Free Learning====<br />
*[http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth] - University level<br />
*[http://www.coursera.org/ Coursera] - Free classes from 16+ Universities<br />
*[http://duolingo.com/ Duolingo] - Learn languages<br />
*[http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Free Online Courses] - University level<br />
*[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy] - Always adding more subjects<br />
*[http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity] - Concentrated on Computer Science<br />
*[http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses Open Courseware] - [http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites List of OCW sites]<br />
:* [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware] - [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT Youtube]<br />
:* [http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ JHSPH Open Courseware] - Johns Hopkins<br />
* [https://www.edx.org/ edX] - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/education Youtube EDU] - Educational Youtube videos.<br />
* [http://open.umich.edu/ open.michigan]<br />
<br />
===Government===<br />
*[http://changeby.us/ Change By Us] - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better<br />
*[http://www.thecity2.org/ City 2.0] - Bringing citizen participation to the surface<br />
*[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/ Civic Commons] - Collection of civic collaboration technologies<br />
*[http://localwiki.org/ Local Wiki] - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge<br />
*[http://www.openassembly.org/ Open Assembly] - Open source crowd-sourcing<br />
<br />
==Our Publications==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/organising-a-regular-meeting/ Organizing a Regular Meeting] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/running-an-information-stand/ Running an Information Stand] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/ Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works] - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
* [[No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics]] - by Various Authors<br />
<br />
==Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/03/a-fair-free-market-or-the-copyright-monopoly/ A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly] - Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/01261417334/apparently-someone-forgot-to-tell-reality-that-entertainment-industry-was-dying.shtml Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying] - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)<br />
*[http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/ Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional"] - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)<br />
*[http://opensource.com/law/12/1/infographic-when-patents-attack-patent-good-patent-profiteering Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering] - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)<br />
*[http://geeksunleashed.me/2012/09/02/interview-amelia-andersdotter/ Interview: Amelia Andersdotter] - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/is-there-any-part-of-the-copyright-monopoly-that-meets-legislative-quality-bars-120812/ Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars?] - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/ Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lawyer-inspired-file-sharing-religion-catholic-bishop-unhappy-120107 MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[https://torrentfreak.com/no-duty-to-secure-wi-fi-from-bittorrent-pirates-judge-rules-120912 No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://getyourcensoron.com/ SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons] - Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/ Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal] - TorrentFreak<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/13013417024/good-bad-new-open-bill-wyden-issa.shtml The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa] - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)<br />
*[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401 The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design] - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman<br />
*[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/18 U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents] - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/do-it-on-the-internet-get-a-patent-sue-an-industry-it-still-works/ Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works] - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/top-rackspace-lawyer-wed-love-to-get-rid-of-software-patents/ Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/its-official-open-source-engine-growth-204661 It's official: Open source is an engine for growth] - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)<br />
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=1&hp The Patent, Used as a Sword] - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-a-better-way-forward.pdf A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing] - by Fred von Lohmann<br />
*[http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/A2KBrazil_bkmk.pdf Access to Knowledge in Brazil] - Edited by Lea Shaver<br />
*[http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm Against Intellectual Monopoly] - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://mises.org/books/against.pdf Against Intellectual Property] - by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*[http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/history/ Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores] - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian<br />
*[http://codev2.cc/download+remix/ Codev2] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://craphound.com/content/download/ Content] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/CarnegieIntellectualProperty.pdf Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation] - by Ariel Fox<br />
*[http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Free Culture] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.freedomofexpression.us/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression.pdf Freedom of Expression] - by Kembrew McLeod<br />
*[http://ssrn.com/abstract=909223 From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age] - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*[http://www.indieguide.com/wiki/page/Indie_Band_Survival_Guide_Ebook Indie Band Survival Guide] - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan<br />
*[http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/quilterheinsreport.pdf INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND FREE SPEECH IN THE ONLINE WORLD: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices] - by Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins<br />
*[http://ahtoapajalahti.fi/uploads/2010/03/jokapiraatinoikeus.pdf Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish)] - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*[http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Little Brother] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.utcourts.gov/general/edresources/docs/Graphic_Novel-Justice_Case_Files-01.pdf NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy] - by National Center for State Courts<br />
*Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution] - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman<br />
*[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html The dotCommunist Manifesto] - by Eben Moglen<br />
*[http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/archive/dixon-review.pdf The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research] - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh<br />
*[http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf The Future of Ideas] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/references/pasquinelli-Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage] - by Matteo Pasquinelli<br />
*[http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book The Pirate's Dilemma] - by Matt Mason<br />
*[http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/ Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets] - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/DMCA_unintended_v4.pdf Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA] - by the EFF<br />
*[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvfOlPYifY A Garden in My Apartment] - by Britta Riley<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Copying Is Not Theft] - by Question Copyright<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 Copyright: Forever LessOne Day] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[https://gnunet.org/rms2012tum Copyright vs. Community] - by Richard Stallman<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html Embrace the remix] - by Kirby Ferguson<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ How YouTube is Driving Innovation] - by Chris Anderson<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture] - by Johanna Blakley<br />
*[http://www.presspauseplay.com/ PressPausePlay]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/31100268 PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet] - by Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc SOPA and PIPA] - by Khan Academy<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM SOPA Cabana] - by Dan Bull<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html The $8 billion iPod] - by Rob Reid<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The Coming War on General Computing] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html The New Open Source Economics] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
==Privacy==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/appeals-court-police-can-track-cell-phones-without-warrant/ Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant] - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/245229/carrier_iq_rootkit_reportedly_logs_everything_on_millions_of_phones_updated.html Carrier IQ Rootkit] - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/does-surveillance-affect-us-even-when-we-cant-confirm-were-being-watched Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain] - ACLU (Jay Stanley)<br />
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/13/is-the-fbi-using-carrier-iq-for-domestic-surveillance/ Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance] - Forbes (E.D. Kain)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/ Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19669803 Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world] - Denver Post (John Ingold)<br />
*[http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS] - Steve Mann<br />
*[https://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/privacy-questions-accompany-automated-li/240005760 Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners] - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)<br />
*[http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/stingrays-biggest-unknown-technological-threat-cell-phone-privacy Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About] - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)<br />
*[https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/wseltzer/stopping-sopas-anticircumvention Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention] - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)<br />
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-telecom-nsa-20121009,0,5705204.story Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit] - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8 Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network] - Business Insider (David Seaman)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-true-picture-of-the-women-who-face-late-term-abortion/2012/07/27/gJQAxSCjEX_story.html The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion] - Washington Post (Christy Zink)<br />
*[http://owni.eu/2012/07/27/the-known-unknowns-of-skype-interception-christopher-soghoian/ The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception] - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/ TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program] - RT<br />
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57537559-38/u.n-calls-for-anti-terror-internet-surveillance/ U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance] - CNET (Declan McCullagh)<br />
*[http://rt.com/usa/news/government-federal-software-agency-972/ US government spies on federal staffers] - RT<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draft-cyber-order-promotes-voluntary-critical-infrastructure-protections White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections] - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/260980/federal_judge_your_location_is_no_more_private_than_the_color_of_your_car.html Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car] - by PC World (Dan Tynan)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices] - EFF<br />
*[http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL] - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf Locational Privacy] - by The EFF<br />
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp54.pdf Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet] - by Jonathan D. Wallace<br />
*[http://www.aclunc.org/docs/technology/privacy_and_free_speech_it's_good_for_business.pdf Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business] - by the ACLU of North Carolina<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html FBI, here I am!] - by Hasan Elahi<br />
*[http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-domestic-spying-program-that-could-be-tracking-you-right-now?c=cp2 Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now] - by Laura Poitras<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html Three Types of Online Attack] - by Mikko Hypponen<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ Your Phone Company is Watching] - by Malte Spitz<br />
<br />
==Transparency and Accountability==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.carighttoknow.org/10_million $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels] - Right to Know<br />
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/are-millennials-the-screwed-generation.html Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?] - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/ Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating] - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11 Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes] - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)<br />
*[http://endthelie.com/2012/08/18/court-dismisses-case-based-on-state-secrets-privilege/ Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege] - by End the Lie<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/epa-fracking-wyoming-pollution_n_1136907.html EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding] - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)<br />
*[http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-undercover-investigators-animal-enterprise-terrorism-act/5440/ FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists] - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)<br />
*[https://www.examiner.com/article/federal-court-rules-favor-of-ndaa Federal court rules in favor of NDAA] - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)<br />
*[http://grist.org/natural-gas/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/ For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals] - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-terror Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams]<br />
*[http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/ Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs] - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice-criminal-law-reform/hitting-two-birds-one-stone-strategies-addressing-indigent Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying] - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Homeland-Security-s-Intent-by-Jack-Swint-120821-433.html Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War] - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)<br />
*[https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaelliott/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal] - Buzzfeed<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/How-The-American-Universit-by-Debra-Leigh-Scott-120819-373.html How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps] - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/indefinite-military-detention-defense-bill-citizens_n_1146181.html Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens] - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)<br />
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.criminology.com/know-your-rights.gif Know your rights (Infographic)] - Criminology.com<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/ MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iGkaTia8 Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so] - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)<br />
*[http://online.wsj.com/article/AP560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b.html NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear] - Wall Street Journal<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/25/nypd-occupy-protests-report?cat=world&type=article NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study] - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-struggles-to-live-up-to-its-transparency-promise-post-analysis-shows/2012/08/03/71172462-dcae-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_story.html Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows] - Washington Post (James Ball)<br />
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obama-plans-for-10-more-years-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-drone/264034/ Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone] - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever] - RT<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-executive-order-legislation-993/ Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order] - RT<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/03/162209738/senate-panels-finds-anti-terror-data-sharing-centers-were-useless Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless] - NPR (Eyder Peralta)<br />
*[http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/07/25/senate-proposal-for-curbing-leaks-escalates-restrictions-on-intelligence-employees-who-talk-to-media/ Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media] - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)<br />
*[http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/the-boston-fishing-party-and-australians-rights-online/ The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online] - Crickey (Bernard Keane)<br />
*[http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-real-reason-for-obamas-threat-to-veto-the-indefinite-detention-bill-hint-its-not-to-protect-liberty.html The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)] - by Washington's Blog<br />
*[http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-25/same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones] - ZeroHedge (George Washington)<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools The US schools with their own police] - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)<br />
*[http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent] - Salon (Natasha Lennard)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-torture-prison-judge-032/ US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners] - RT<br />
*[http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/ US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords] - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)<br />
*[http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books] - Sound+Noise (Tom)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://lessig.org/blog/d4i.pdf d4i (Declaration for Independence)] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/NetNeutrality_9781849662192/preface-ba-9781849662192-preface-0001.xml Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution] - by Christopher T. Marsden<br />
*[http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age] - by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Beware Online Filter Bubbles] - by Eli Pariser<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1558 Demand a more Open Source Government] - by Beth Noveck<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D1299CC3E46CB378C44D0E39AC6AB7A Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along] - James J. Delaney?<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A8E93E45C42846D11FBE0E3A4B1355A2 Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM Hitler reacts to SOPA]<br />
*[http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/ How pervasive has government distrust gotten?] - by Ivan Krastev<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxyi_3CGrk In Defense of Dialogue] - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY Gerrymandering Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html Hollywood and the War Machine] - Al Jazeera<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=39548FF4687EE675D6C5B234338B3E1E SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock] - SNL<br />
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'] - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM4JupBz_E The power of the informal economy] - by Robert Neuwirth<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k The Trouble with the Electoral College] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMPrzr7aug Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know] - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum<br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<br />
===Court Cases===<br />
*[http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/Pages/default.aspx List of Copyright Cases] - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools<br />
<br />
===Legislation===<br />
*[http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf ACTA] - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/coica_files/COICA3.pdf COICA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf DMCA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424 HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.keepthewebopen.com/ OPEN Act (edits suggestable)] - Congress<br />
*[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf USA PATRIOT Act of 2001] - by Congress<br />
*[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf PROTECT IP Act] - by Congress<br />
<br />
===Philosophy===<br />
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Communist Manifesto] - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels<br />
*[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf From Dictatorship to Democracy] - by Gene Sharp<br />
*[http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf Iceland's New Constitution] - Iceland Constitutional Council<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Institutions vs. Collaboration] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/ The Pirate Wheel] - Pirates<br />
*[http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?] - by yanis<br />
<br />
===Reports, Statistics, and Studies===<br />
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement] - by the White House<br />
*[http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0816/final.pdf Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes] - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division<br />
*[https://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.pdf Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society] - by American Meteorological Society Council<br />
*[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/100921/what-filesharing-studies-really-say-conclusions-and-links/ Filesharing Study Compilation] - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/general/1020/wipo_pub_1020.pdf Guide to WIPO Services] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm International Trade Statistics 2008] - by the WTO<br />
*[http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC] - U.S. Department of Homeland Security<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf Report on Orphan Works] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it <s>[http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)]</s>[http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf KEI Mirror] [http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Maryland Pirates Mirror] [http://www.masspirates.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf Massachusetts Pirates Mirror] [http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Scribd Mirror] - Republican Study Committee<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/reports/s-plan2008/s-plan2008-2013.pdf Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*[https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf The Case Against Patents] - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ The Case for Copyright Reform] - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.pdf Understanding Copyright and Related Rights] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/895/wipo_pub_895.pdf Understanding Industrial Property] - by the WIPO<br />
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===Other===<br />
*[https://alkasir.com/ Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship]<br />
*[http://www.cvdazzle.com/ CV Dazzle] - Computer Vision Camoflage<br />
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide DIY Mesh Guide] - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices<br />
*[http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Defective by Design] - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives<br />
*[https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page Encrypt Everything] - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada<br />
*[https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/index.en.html FreedomBox] - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet<br />
*[http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)]<br />
*[https://crypto.is/ The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy)] - Crypto.is<br />
*[http://www.un.int/kamal/thelawofcyberspace/The%20Law%20of%20Cyber-Space.pdf The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations] - by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*[http://www.spyfiles.org/ List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country] - compiled by Wikileaks<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/ Who Bought Your Politician?] - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=1970Library2012-12-04T21:26:57Z<p>Itspara: /* Case Studies */</p>
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Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.<br />
<br />
==Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video==<br />
*[https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] - Digital library of free books, movies, and music<br />
*[http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Jamendo] - Creative Commons music<br />
*[http://musopen.org/ Musopen] - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks<br />
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenburg] - Public domain books in electronic format<br />
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] - Public domain and Creative Commons images<br />
<br />
===Education===<br />
====Digital Social Learning Communities====<br />
*[http://www.dweeber.com/Intro.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx Dweeber]<br />
*[http://elgg.org/index.php Elgg]<br />
*[http://www.epals.com/ ePals]<br />
*[https://mahara.org/ Mahara]<br />
*[https://moodle.org/ Moodle]<br />
<br />
====Free Learning====<br />
*[http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth] - University level<br />
*[http://www.coursera.org/ Coursera] - Free classes from 16+ Universities<br />
*[http://duolingo.com/ Duolingo] - Learn languages<br />
*[http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Free Online Courses] - University level<br />
*[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy] - Always adding more subjects<br />
*[http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity] - Concentrated on Computer Science<br />
*[http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses Open Courseware] - [http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites List of OCW sites]<br />
:* [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware] - [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT Youtube]<br />
:* [http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ JHSPH Open Courseware] - Johns Hopkins<br />
* [https://www.edx.org/ edX] - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/education Youtube EDU] - Educational Youtube videos.<br />
* [http://open.umich.edu/ open.michigan]<br />
<br />
===Government===<br />
*[http://changeby.us/ Change By Us] - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better<br />
*[http://www.thecity2.org/ City 2.0] - Bringing citizen participation to the surface<br />
*[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/ Civic Commons] - Collection of civic collaboration technologies<br />
*[http://localwiki.org/ Local Wiki] - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge<br />
*[http://www.openassembly.org/ Open Assembly] - Open source crowd-sourcing<br />
<br />
==Our Publications==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/organising-a-regular-meeting/ Organizing a Regular Meeting] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/running-an-information-stand/ Running an Information Stand] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/ Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works] - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
* [[No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics]] - by Various Authors<br />
<br />
==Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/03/a-fair-free-market-or-the-copyright-monopoly/ A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly] - Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/01261417334/apparently-someone-forgot-to-tell-reality-that-entertainment-industry-was-dying.shtml Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying] - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)<br />
*[http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/ Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional"] - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)<br />
*[http://opensource.com/law/12/1/infographic-when-patents-attack-patent-good-patent-profiteering Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering] - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)<br />
*[http://geeksunleashed.me/2012/09/02/interview-amelia-andersdotter/ Interview: Amelia Andersdotter] - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/is-there-any-part-of-the-copyright-monopoly-that-meets-legislative-quality-bars-120812/ Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars?] - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/ Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lawyer-inspired-file-sharing-religion-catholic-bishop-unhappy-120107 MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[https://torrentfreak.com/no-duty-to-secure-wi-fi-from-bittorrent-pirates-judge-rules-120912 No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://getyourcensoron.com/ SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons] - Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/ Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal] - TorrentFreak<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/13013417024/good-bad-new-open-bill-wyden-issa.shtml The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa] - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)<br />
*[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401 The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design] - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman<br />
*[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/18 U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents] - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/do-it-on-the-internet-get-a-patent-sue-an-industry-it-still-works/ Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works] - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/top-rackspace-lawyer-wed-love-to-get-rid-of-software-patents/ Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/its-official-open-source-engine-growth-204661 It's official: Open source is an engine for growth] - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)<br />
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=1&hp The Patent, Used as a Sword] - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-a-better-way-forward.pdf A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing] - by Fred von Lohmann<br />
*[http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/A2KBrazil_bkmk.pdf Access to Knowledge in Brazil] - Edited by Lea Shaver<br />
*[http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm Against Intellectual Monopoly] - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://mises.org/books/against.pdf Against Intellectual Property] - by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*[http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/history/ Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores] - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian<br />
*[http://codev2.cc/download+remix/ Codev2] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://craphound.com/content/download/ Content] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/CarnegieIntellectualProperty.pdf Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation] - by Ariel Fox<br />
*[http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Free Culture] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.freedomofexpression.us/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression.pdf Freedom of Expression] - by Kembrew McLeod<br />
*[http://ssrn.com/abstract=909223 From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age] - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*[http://www.indieguide.com/wiki/page/Indie_Band_Survival_Guide_Ebook Indie Band Survival Guide] - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan<br />
*[http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/quilterheinsreport.pdf INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND FREE SPEECH IN THE ONLINE WORLD: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices] - by Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins<br />
*[http://ahtoapajalahti.fi/uploads/2010/03/jokapiraatinoikeus.pdf Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish)] - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*[http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Little Brother] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.utcourts.gov/general/edresources/docs/Graphic_Novel-Justice_Case_Files-01.pdf NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy] - by National Center for State Courts<br />
*Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution] - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman<br />
*[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html The dotCommunist Manifesto] - by Eben Moglen<br />
*[http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/archive/dixon-review.pdf The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research] - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh<br />
*[http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf The Future of Ideas] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/references/pasquinelli-Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage] - by Matteo Pasquinelli<br />
*[http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book The Pirate's Dilemma] - by Matt Mason<br />
*[http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/ Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets] - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/DMCA_unintended_v4.pdf Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA] - by the EFF<br />
*[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
<br />
===Case Studies===<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/4f106d0504a7f92f5b000003 Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil] - Patent Opposition Database<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/500e9b8c7718ea0002000018 Revoking An Invalid Patent: The Case of Didanosine in Thailand] - Patent Opposition Database<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvfOlPYifY A Garden in My Apartment] - by Britta Riley<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Copying Is Not Theft] - by Question Copyright<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 Copyright: Forever LessOne Day] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[https://gnunet.org/rms2012tum Copyright vs. Community] - by Richard Stallman<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html Embrace the remix] - by Kirby Ferguson<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ How YouTube is Driving Innovation] - by Chris Anderson<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture] - by Johanna Blakley<br />
*[http://www.presspauseplay.com/ PressPausePlay]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/31100268 PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet] - by Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc SOPA and PIPA] - by Khan Academy<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM SOPA Cabana] - by Dan Bull<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html The $8 billion iPod] - by Rob Reid<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The Coming War on General Computing] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html The New Open Source Economics] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
==Privacy==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/appeals-court-police-can-track-cell-phones-without-warrant/ Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant] - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/245229/carrier_iq_rootkit_reportedly_logs_everything_on_millions_of_phones_updated.html Carrier IQ Rootkit] - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/does-surveillance-affect-us-even-when-we-cant-confirm-were-being-watched Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain] - ACLU (Jay Stanley)<br />
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/13/is-the-fbi-using-carrier-iq-for-domestic-surveillance/ Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance] - Forbes (E.D. Kain)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/ Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19669803 Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world] - Denver Post (John Ingold)<br />
*[http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS] - Steve Mann<br />
*[https://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/privacy-questions-accompany-automated-li/240005760 Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners] - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)<br />
*[http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/stingrays-biggest-unknown-technological-threat-cell-phone-privacy Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About] - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)<br />
*[https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/wseltzer/stopping-sopas-anticircumvention Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention] - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)<br />
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-telecom-nsa-20121009,0,5705204.story Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit] - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8 Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network] - Business Insider (David Seaman)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-true-picture-of-the-women-who-face-late-term-abortion/2012/07/27/gJQAxSCjEX_story.html The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion] - Washington Post (Christy Zink)<br />
*[http://owni.eu/2012/07/27/the-known-unknowns-of-skype-interception-christopher-soghoian/ The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception] - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/ TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program] - RT<br />
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57537559-38/u.n-calls-for-anti-terror-internet-surveillance/ U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance] - CNET (Declan McCullagh)<br />
*[http://rt.com/usa/news/government-federal-software-agency-972/ US government spies on federal staffers] - RT<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draft-cyber-order-promotes-voluntary-critical-infrastructure-protections White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections] - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/260980/federal_judge_your_location_is_no_more_private_than_the_color_of_your_car.html Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car] - by PC World (Dan Tynan)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices] - EFF<br />
*[http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL] - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf Locational Privacy] - by The EFF<br />
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp54.pdf Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet] - by Jonathan D. Wallace<br />
*[http://www.aclunc.org/docs/technology/privacy_and_free_speech_it's_good_for_business.pdf Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business] - by the ACLU of North Carolina<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html FBI, here I am!] - by Hasan Elahi<br />
*[http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-domestic-spying-program-that-could-be-tracking-you-right-now?c=cp2 Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now] - by Laura Poitras<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html Three Types of Online Attack] - by Mikko Hypponen<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ Your Phone Company is Watching] - by Malte Spitz<br />
<br />
==Transparency and Accountability==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.carighttoknow.org/10_million $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels] - Right to Know<br />
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/are-millennials-the-screwed-generation.html Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?] - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/ Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating] - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11 Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes] - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)<br />
*[http://endthelie.com/2012/08/18/court-dismisses-case-based-on-state-secrets-privilege/ Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege] - by End the Lie<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/epa-fracking-wyoming-pollution_n_1136907.html EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding] - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)<br />
*[http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-undercover-investigators-animal-enterprise-terrorism-act/5440/ FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists] - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)<br />
*[https://www.examiner.com/article/federal-court-rules-favor-of-ndaa Federal court rules in favor of NDAA] - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)<br />
*[http://grist.org/natural-gas/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/ For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals] - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-terror Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams]<br />
*[http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/ Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs] - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice-criminal-law-reform/hitting-two-birds-one-stone-strategies-addressing-indigent Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying] - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Homeland-Security-s-Intent-by-Jack-Swint-120821-433.html Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War] - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)<br />
*[https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaelliott/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal] - Buzzfeed<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/How-The-American-Universit-by-Debra-Leigh-Scott-120819-373.html How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps] - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/indefinite-military-detention-defense-bill-citizens_n_1146181.html Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens] - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)<br />
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.criminology.com/know-your-rights.gif Know your rights (Infographic)] - Criminology.com<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/ MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iGkaTia8 Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so] - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)<br />
*[http://online.wsj.com/article/AP560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b.html NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear] - Wall Street Journal<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/25/nypd-occupy-protests-report?cat=world&type=article NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study] - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-struggles-to-live-up-to-its-transparency-promise-post-analysis-shows/2012/08/03/71172462-dcae-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_story.html Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows] - Washington Post (James Ball)<br />
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obama-plans-for-10-more-years-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-drone/264034/ Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone] - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever] - RT<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-executive-order-legislation-993/ Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order] - RT<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/03/162209738/senate-panels-finds-anti-terror-data-sharing-centers-were-useless Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless] - NPR (Eyder Peralta)<br />
*[http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/07/25/senate-proposal-for-curbing-leaks-escalates-restrictions-on-intelligence-employees-who-talk-to-media/ Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media] - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)<br />
*[http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/the-boston-fishing-party-and-australians-rights-online/ The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online] - Crickey (Bernard Keane)<br />
*[http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-real-reason-for-obamas-threat-to-veto-the-indefinite-detention-bill-hint-its-not-to-protect-liberty.html The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)] - by Washington's Blog<br />
*[http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-25/same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones] - ZeroHedge (George Washington)<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools The US schools with their own police] - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)<br />
*[http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent] - Salon (Natasha Lennard)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-torture-prison-judge-032/ US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners] - RT<br />
*[http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/ US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords] - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)<br />
*[http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books] - Sound+Noise (Tom)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://lessig.org/blog/d4i.pdf d4i (Declaration for Independence)] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/NetNeutrality_9781849662192/preface-ba-9781849662192-preface-0001.xml Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution] - by Christopher T. Marsden<br />
*[http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age] - by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Beware Online Filter Bubbles] - by Eli Pariser<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1558 Demand a more Open Source Government] - by Beth Noveck<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D1299CC3E46CB378C44D0E39AC6AB7A Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along] - James J. Delaney?<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A8E93E45C42846D11FBE0E3A4B1355A2 Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM Hitler reacts to SOPA]<br />
*[http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/ How pervasive has government distrust gotten?] - by Ivan Krastev<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxyi_3CGrk In Defense of Dialogue] - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY Gerrymandering Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html Hollywood and the War Machine] - Al Jazeera<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=39548FF4687EE675D6C5B234338B3E1E SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock] - SNL<br />
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'] - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM4JupBz_E The power of the informal economy] - by Robert Neuwirth<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k The Trouble with the Electoral College] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMPrzr7aug Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know] - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum<br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<br />
===Court Cases===<br />
*[http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/Pages/default.aspx List of Copyright Cases] - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools<br />
<br />
===Legislation===<br />
*[http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf ACTA] - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/coica_files/COICA3.pdf COICA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf DMCA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424 HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.keepthewebopen.com/ OPEN Act (edits suggestable)] - Congress<br />
*[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf USA PATRIOT Act of 2001] - by Congress<br />
*[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf PROTECT IP Act] - by Congress<br />
<br />
===Philosophy===<br />
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Communist Manifesto] - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels<br />
*[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf From Dictatorship to Democracy] - by Gene Sharp<br />
*[http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf Iceland's New Constitution] - Iceland Constitutional Council<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Institutions vs. Collaboration] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/ The Pirate Wheel] - Pirates<br />
*[http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?] - by yanis<br />
<br />
===Reports, Statistics, and Studies===<br />
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement] - by the White House<br />
*[http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0816/final.pdf Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes] - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division<br />
*[https://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.pdf Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society] - by American Meteorological Society Council<br />
*[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/100921/what-filesharing-studies-really-say-conclusions-and-links/ Filesharing Study Compilation] - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/general/1020/wipo_pub_1020.pdf Guide to WIPO Services] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm International Trade Statistics 2008] - by the WTO<br />
*[http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC] - U.S. Department of Homeland Security<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf Report on Orphan Works] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it <s>[http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)]</s>[http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf KEI Mirror] [http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Maryland Pirates Mirror] [http://www.masspirates.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf Massachusetts Pirates Mirror] [http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Scribd Mirror] - Republican Study Committee<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/reports/s-plan2008/s-plan2008-2013.pdf Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*[https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf The Case Against Patents] - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ The Case for Copyright Reform] - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.pdf Understanding Copyright and Related Rights] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/895/wipo_pub_895.pdf Understanding Industrial Property] - by the WIPO<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*[https://alkasir.com/ Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship]<br />
*[http://www.cvdazzle.com/ CV Dazzle] - Computer Vision Camoflage<br />
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide DIY Mesh Guide] - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices<br />
*[http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Defective by Design] - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives<br />
*[https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page Encrypt Everything] - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada<br />
*[https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/index.en.html FreedomBox] - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet<br />
*[http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)]<br />
*[https://crypto.is/ The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy)] - Crypto.is<br />
*[http://www.un.int/kamal/thelawofcyberspace/The%20Law%20of%20Cyber-Space.pdf The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations] - by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*[http://www.spyfiles.org/ List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country] - compiled by Wikileaks<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/ Who Bought Your Politician?] - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=1969Library2012-12-04T21:26:33Z<p>Itspara: /* Case Studies */</p>
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<div>{{USPP NAV}}<br />
Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.<br />
<br />
==Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video==<br />
*[https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] - Digital library of free books, movies, and music<br />
*[http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Jamendo] - Creative Commons music<br />
*[http://musopen.org/ Musopen] - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks<br />
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenburg] - Public domain books in electronic format<br />
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] - Public domain and Creative Commons images<br />
<br />
===Education===<br />
====Digital Social Learning Communities====<br />
*[http://www.dweeber.com/Intro.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx Dweeber]<br />
*[http://elgg.org/index.php Elgg]<br />
*[http://www.epals.com/ ePals]<br />
*[https://mahara.org/ Mahara]<br />
*[https://moodle.org/ Moodle]<br />
<br />
====Free Learning====<br />
*[http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth] - University level<br />
*[http://www.coursera.org/ Coursera] - Free classes from 16+ Universities<br />
*[http://duolingo.com/ Duolingo] - Learn languages<br />
*[http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Free Online Courses] - University level<br />
*[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy] - Always adding more subjects<br />
*[http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity] - Concentrated on Computer Science<br />
*[http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses Open Courseware] - [http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites List of OCW sites]<br />
:* [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware] - [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT Youtube]<br />
:* [http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ JHSPH Open Courseware] - Johns Hopkins<br />
* [https://www.edx.org/ edX] - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/education Youtube EDU] - Educational Youtube videos.<br />
* [http://open.umich.edu/ open.michigan]<br />
<br />
===Government===<br />
*[http://changeby.us/ Change By Us] - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better<br />
*[http://www.thecity2.org/ City 2.0] - Bringing citizen participation to the surface<br />
*[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/ Civic Commons] - Collection of civic collaboration technologies<br />
*[http://localwiki.org/ Local Wiki] - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge<br />
*[http://www.openassembly.org/ Open Assembly] - Open source crowd-sourcing<br />
<br />
==Our Publications==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/organising-a-regular-meeting/ Organizing a Regular Meeting] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/running-an-information-stand/ Running an Information Stand] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/ Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works] - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
* [[No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics]] - by Various Authors<br />
<br />
==Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/03/a-fair-free-market-or-the-copyright-monopoly/ A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly] - Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/01261417334/apparently-someone-forgot-to-tell-reality-that-entertainment-industry-was-dying.shtml Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying] - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)<br />
*[http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/ Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional"] - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)<br />
*[http://opensource.com/law/12/1/infographic-when-patents-attack-patent-good-patent-profiteering Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering] - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)<br />
*[http://geeksunleashed.me/2012/09/02/interview-amelia-andersdotter/ Interview: Amelia Andersdotter] - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/is-there-any-part-of-the-copyright-monopoly-that-meets-legislative-quality-bars-120812/ Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars?] - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/ Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lawyer-inspired-file-sharing-religion-catholic-bishop-unhappy-120107 MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[https://torrentfreak.com/no-duty-to-secure-wi-fi-from-bittorrent-pirates-judge-rules-120912 No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://getyourcensoron.com/ SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons] - Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/ Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal] - TorrentFreak<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/13013417024/good-bad-new-open-bill-wyden-issa.shtml The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa] - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)<br />
*[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401 The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design] - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman<br />
*[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/18 U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents] - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/do-it-on-the-internet-get-a-patent-sue-an-industry-it-still-works/ Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works] - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/top-rackspace-lawyer-wed-love-to-get-rid-of-software-patents/ Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/its-official-open-source-engine-growth-204661 It's official: Open source is an engine for growth] - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)<br />
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=1&hp The Patent, Used as a Sword] - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-a-better-way-forward.pdf A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing] - by Fred von Lohmann<br />
*[http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/A2KBrazil_bkmk.pdf Access to Knowledge in Brazil] - Edited by Lea Shaver<br />
*[http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm Against Intellectual Monopoly] - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://mises.org/books/against.pdf Against Intellectual Property] - by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*[http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/history/ Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores] - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian<br />
*[http://codev2.cc/download+remix/ Codev2] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://craphound.com/content/download/ Content] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/CarnegieIntellectualProperty.pdf Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation] - by Ariel Fox<br />
*[http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Free Culture] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.freedomofexpression.us/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression.pdf Freedom of Expression] - by Kembrew McLeod<br />
*[http://ssrn.com/abstract=909223 From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age] - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*[http://www.indieguide.com/wiki/page/Indie_Band_Survival_Guide_Ebook Indie Band Survival Guide] - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan<br />
*[http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/quilterheinsreport.pdf INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND FREE SPEECH IN THE ONLINE WORLD: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices] - by Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins<br />
*[http://ahtoapajalahti.fi/uploads/2010/03/jokapiraatinoikeus.pdf Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish)] - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*[http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Little Brother] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.utcourts.gov/general/edresources/docs/Graphic_Novel-Justice_Case_Files-01.pdf NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy] - by National Center for State Courts<br />
*Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution] - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman<br />
*[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html The dotCommunist Manifesto] - by Eben Moglen<br />
*[http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/archive/dixon-review.pdf The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research] - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh<br />
*[http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf The Future of Ideas] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/references/pasquinelli-Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage] - by Matteo Pasquinelli<br />
*[http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book The Pirate's Dilemma] - by Matt Mason<br />
*[http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/ Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets] - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/DMCA_unintended_v4.pdf Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA] - by the EFF<br />
*[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
<br />
===Case Studies===<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/4f106d0504a7f92f5b000003 Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil] - via the Patent Opposition Database<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/500e9b8c7718ea0002000018 Revoking An Invalid Patent: The Case of Didanosine in Thailand] - via the Patent Opposition Database<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvfOlPYifY A Garden in My Apartment] - by Britta Riley<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Copying Is Not Theft] - by Question Copyright<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 Copyright: Forever LessOne Day] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[https://gnunet.org/rms2012tum Copyright vs. Community] - by Richard Stallman<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html Embrace the remix] - by Kirby Ferguson<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ How YouTube is Driving Innovation] - by Chris Anderson<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture] - by Johanna Blakley<br />
*[http://www.presspauseplay.com/ PressPausePlay]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/31100268 PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet] - by Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc SOPA and PIPA] - by Khan Academy<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM SOPA Cabana] - by Dan Bull<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html The $8 billion iPod] - by Rob Reid<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The Coming War on General Computing] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html The New Open Source Economics] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
==Privacy==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/appeals-court-police-can-track-cell-phones-without-warrant/ Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant] - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/245229/carrier_iq_rootkit_reportedly_logs_everything_on_millions_of_phones_updated.html Carrier IQ Rootkit] - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/does-surveillance-affect-us-even-when-we-cant-confirm-were-being-watched Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain] - ACLU (Jay Stanley)<br />
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/13/is-the-fbi-using-carrier-iq-for-domestic-surveillance/ Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance] - Forbes (E.D. Kain)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/ Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19669803 Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world] - Denver Post (John Ingold)<br />
*[http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS] - Steve Mann<br />
*[https://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/privacy-questions-accompany-automated-li/240005760 Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners] - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)<br />
*[http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/stingrays-biggest-unknown-technological-threat-cell-phone-privacy Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About] - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)<br />
*[https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/wseltzer/stopping-sopas-anticircumvention Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention] - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)<br />
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-telecom-nsa-20121009,0,5705204.story Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit] - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8 Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network] - Business Insider (David Seaman)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-true-picture-of-the-women-who-face-late-term-abortion/2012/07/27/gJQAxSCjEX_story.html The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion] - Washington Post (Christy Zink)<br />
*[http://owni.eu/2012/07/27/the-known-unknowns-of-skype-interception-christopher-soghoian/ The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception] - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/ TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program] - RT<br />
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57537559-38/u.n-calls-for-anti-terror-internet-surveillance/ U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance] - CNET (Declan McCullagh)<br />
*[http://rt.com/usa/news/government-federal-software-agency-972/ US government spies on federal staffers] - RT<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draft-cyber-order-promotes-voluntary-critical-infrastructure-protections White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections] - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/260980/federal_judge_your_location_is_no_more_private_than_the_color_of_your_car.html Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car] - by PC World (Dan Tynan)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices] - EFF<br />
*[http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL] - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf Locational Privacy] - by The EFF<br />
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp54.pdf Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet] - by Jonathan D. Wallace<br />
*[http://www.aclunc.org/docs/technology/privacy_and_free_speech_it's_good_for_business.pdf Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business] - by the ACLU of North Carolina<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html FBI, here I am!] - by Hasan Elahi<br />
*[http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-domestic-spying-program-that-could-be-tracking-you-right-now?c=cp2 Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now] - by Laura Poitras<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html Three Types of Online Attack] - by Mikko Hypponen<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ Your Phone Company is Watching] - by Malte Spitz<br />
<br />
==Transparency and Accountability==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.carighttoknow.org/10_million $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels] - Right to Know<br />
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/are-millennials-the-screwed-generation.html Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?] - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/ Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating] - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11 Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes] - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)<br />
*[http://endthelie.com/2012/08/18/court-dismisses-case-based-on-state-secrets-privilege/ Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege] - by End the Lie<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/epa-fracking-wyoming-pollution_n_1136907.html EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding] - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)<br />
*[http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-undercover-investigators-animal-enterprise-terrorism-act/5440/ FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists] - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)<br />
*[https://www.examiner.com/article/federal-court-rules-favor-of-ndaa Federal court rules in favor of NDAA] - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)<br />
*[http://grist.org/natural-gas/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/ For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals] - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-terror Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams]<br />
*[http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/ Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs] - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice-criminal-law-reform/hitting-two-birds-one-stone-strategies-addressing-indigent Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying] - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Homeland-Security-s-Intent-by-Jack-Swint-120821-433.html Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War] - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)<br />
*[https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaelliott/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal] - Buzzfeed<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/How-The-American-Universit-by-Debra-Leigh-Scott-120819-373.html How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps] - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/indefinite-military-detention-defense-bill-citizens_n_1146181.html Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens] - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)<br />
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.criminology.com/know-your-rights.gif Know your rights (Infographic)] - Criminology.com<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/ MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iGkaTia8 Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so] - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)<br />
*[http://online.wsj.com/article/AP560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b.html NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear] - Wall Street Journal<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/25/nypd-occupy-protests-report?cat=world&type=article NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study] - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-struggles-to-live-up-to-its-transparency-promise-post-analysis-shows/2012/08/03/71172462-dcae-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_story.html Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows] - Washington Post (James Ball)<br />
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obama-plans-for-10-more-years-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-drone/264034/ Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone] - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever] - RT<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-executive-order-legislation-993/ Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order] - RT<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/03/162209738/senate-panels-finds-anti-terror-data-sharing-centers-were-useless Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless] - NPR (Eyder Peralta)<br />
*[http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/07/25/senate-proposal-for-curbing-leaks-escalates-restrictions-on-intelligence-employees-who-talk-to-media/ Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media] - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)<br />
*[http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/the-boston-fishing-party-and-australians-rights-online/ The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online] - Crickey (Bernard Keane)<br />
*[http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-real-reason-for-obamas-threat-to-veto-the-indefinite-detention-bill-hint-its-not-to-protect-liberty.html The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)] - by Washington's Blog<br />
*[http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-25/same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones] - ZeroHedge (George Washington)<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools The US schools with their own police] - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)<br />
*[http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent] - Salon (Natasha Lennard)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-torture-prison-judge-032/ US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners] - RT<br />
*[http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/ US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords] - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)<br />
*[http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books] - Sound+Noise (Tom)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://lessig.org/blog/d4i.pdf d4i (Declaration for Independence)] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/NetNeutrality_9781849662192/preface-ba-9781849662192-preface-0001.xml Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution] - by Christopher T. Marsden<br />
*[http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age] - by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Beware Online Filter Bubbles] - by Eli Pariser<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1558 Demand a more Open Source Government] - by Beth Noveck<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D1299CC3E46CB378C44D0E39AC6AB7A Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along] - James J. Delaney?<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A8E93E45C42846D11FBE0E3A4B1355A2 Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM Hitler reacts to SOPA]<br />
*[http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/ How pervasive has government distrust gotten?] - by Ivan Krastev<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxyi_3CGrk In Defense of Dialogue] - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY Gerrymandering Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html Hollywood and the War Machine] - Al Jazeera<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=39548FF4687EE675D6C5B234338B3E1E SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock] - SNL<br />
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'] - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM4JupBz_E The power of the informal economy] - by Robert Neuwirth<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k The Trouble with the Electoral College] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMPrzr7aug Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know] - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum<br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<br />
===Court Cases===<br />
*[http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/Pages/default.aspx List of Copyright Cases] - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools<br />
<br />
===Legislation===<br />
*[http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf ACTA] - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/coica_files/COICA3.pdf COICA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf DMCA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424 HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.keepthewebopen.com/ OPEN Act (edits suggestable)] - Congress<br />
*[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf USA PATRIOT Act of 2001] - by Congress<br />
*[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf PROTECT IP Act] - by Congress<br />
<br />
===Philosophy===<br />
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Communist Manifesto] - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels<br />
*[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf From Dictatorship to Democracy] - by Gene Sharp<br />
*[http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf Iceland's New Constitution] - Iceland Constitutional Council<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Institutions vs. Collaboration] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/ The Pirate Wheel] - Pirates<br />
*[http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?] - by yanis<br />
<br />
===Reports, Statistics, and Studies===<br />
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement] - by the White House<br />
*[http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0816/final.pdf Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes] - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division<br />
*[https://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.pdf Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society] - by American Meteorological Society Council<br />
*[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/100921/what-filesharing-studies-really-say-conclusions-and-links/ Filesharing Study Compilation] - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/general/1020/wipo_pub_1020.pdf Guide to WIPO Services] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm International Trade Statistics 2008] - by the WTO<br />
*[http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC] - U.S. Department of Homeland Security<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf Report on Orphan Works] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it <s>[http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)]</s>[http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf KEI Mirror] [http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Maryland Pirates Mirror] [http://www.masspirates.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf Massachusetts Pirates Mirror] [http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Scribd Mirror] - Republican Study Committee<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/reports/s-plan2008/s-plan2008-2013.pdf Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*[https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf The Case Against Patents] - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ The Case for Copyright Reform] - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.pdf Understanding Copyright and Related Rights] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/895/wipo_pub_895.pdf Understanding Industrial Property] - by the WIPO<br />
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===Other===<br />
*[https://alkasir.com/ Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship]<br />
*[http://www.cvdazzle.com/ CV Dazzle] - Computer Vision Camoflage<br />
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide DIY Mesh Guide] - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices<br />
*[http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Defective by Design] - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives<br />
*[https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page Encrypt Everything] - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada<br />
*[https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/index.en.html FreedomBox] - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet<br />
*[http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)]<br />
*[https://crypto.is/ The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy)] - Crypto.is<br />
*[http://www.un.int/kamal/thelawofcyberspace/The%20Law%20of%20Cyber-Space.pdf The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations] - by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*[http://www.spyfiles.org/ List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country] - compiled by Wikileaks<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/ Who Bought Your Politician?] - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=1968Library2012-12-04T21:25:27Z<p>Itspara: /* Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark) */</p>
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<div>{{USPP NAV}}<br />
Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.<br />
<br />
==Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video==<br />
*[https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] - Digital library of free books, movies, and music<br />
*[http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Jamendo] - Creative Commons music<br />
*[http://musopen.org/ Musopen] - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks<br />
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenburg] - Public domain books in electronic format<br />
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] - Public domain and Creative Commons images<br />
<br />
===Education===<br />
====Digital Social Learning Communities====<br />
*[http://www.dweeber.com/Intro.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx Dweeber]<br />
*[http://elgg.org/index.php Elgg]<br />
*[http://www.epals.com/ ePals]<br />
*[https://mahara.org/ Mahara]<br />
*[https://moodle.org/ Moodle]<br />
<br />
====Free Learning====<br />
*[http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth] - University level<br />
*[http://www.coursera.org/ Coursera] - Free classes from 16+ Universities<br />
*[http://duolingo.com/ Duolingo] - Learn languages<br />
*[http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Free Online Courses] - University level<br />
*[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy] - Always adding more subjects<br />
*[http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity] - Concentrated on Computer Science<br />
*[http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses Open Courseware] - [http://ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites List of OCW sites]<br />
:* [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware] - [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT Youtube]<br />
:* [http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ JHSPH Open Courseware] - Johns Hopkins<br />
* [https://www.edx.org/ edX] - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/education Youtube EDU] - Educational Youtube videos.<br />
* [http://open.umich.edu/ open.michigan]<br />
<br />
===Government===<br />
*[http://changeby.us/ Change By Us] - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better<br />
*[http://www.thecity2.org/ City 2.0] - Bringing citizen participation to the surface<br />
*[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/ Civic Commons] - Collection of civic collaboration technologies<br />
*[http://localwiki.org/ Local Wiki] - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge<br />
*[http://www.openassembly.org/ Open Assembly] - Open source crowd-sourcing<br />
<br />
==Our Publications==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/organising-a-regular-meeting/ Organizing a Regular Meeting] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://piratetimes.net/running-an-information-stand/ Running an Information Stand] - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)<br />
* [http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/17/yes-the-pirate-party-is-a-silly-name-and-thats-why-it-works/ Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works] - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
* [[No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics]] - by Various Authors<br />
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==Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/03/a-fair-free-market-or-the-copyright-monopoly/ A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly] - Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/01261417334/apparently-someone-forgot-to-tell-reality-that-entertainment-industry-was-dying.shtml Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying] - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)<br />
*[http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/ Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional"] - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)<br />
*[http://opensource.com/law/12/1/infographic-when-patents-attack-patent-good-patent-profiteering Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering] - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)<br />
*[http://geeksunleashed.me/2012/09/02/interview-amelia-andersdotter/ Interview: Amelia Andersdotter] - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/is-there-any-part-of-the-copyright-monopoly-that-meets-legislative-quality-bars-120812/ Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars?] - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/ Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lawyer-inspired-file-sharing-religion-catholic-bishop-unhappy-120107 MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy] - TorrentFreak (enigmax)<br />
*[https://torrentfreak.com/no-duty-to-secure-wi-fi-from-bittorrent-pirates-judge-rules-120912 No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://getyourcensoron.com/ SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons] - Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/ Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal] - TorrentFreak<br />
*[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/13013417024/good-bad-new-open-bill-wyden-issa.shtml The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa] - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)<br />
*[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401 The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design] - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman<br />
*[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/18 U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents] - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/do-it-on-the-internet-get-a-patent-sue-an-industry-it-still-works/ Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works] - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/top-rackspace-lawyer-wed-love-to-get-rid-of-software-patents/ Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/its-official-open-source-engine-growth-204661 It's official: Open source is an engine for growth] - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)<br />
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=1&hp The Patent, Used as a Sword] - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-a-better-way-forward.pdf A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing] - by Fred von Lohmann<br />
*[http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/A2KBrazil_bkmk.pdf Access to Knowledge in Brazil] - Edited by Lea Shaver<br />
*[http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm Against Intellectual Monopoly] - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://mises.org/books/against.pdf Against Intellectual Property] - by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*[http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/history/ Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores] - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian<br />
*[http://codev2.cc/download+remix/ Codev2] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://craphound.com/content/download/ Content] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/CarnegieIntellectualProperty.pdf Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation] - by Ariel Fox<br />
*[http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Free Culture] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.freedomofexpression.us/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression.pdf Freedom of Expression] - by Kembrew McLeod<br />
*[http://ssrn.com/abstract=909223 From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age] - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*[http://www.indieguide.com/wiki/page/Indie_Band_Survival_Guide_Ebook Indie Band Survival Guide] - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan<br />
*[http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/quilterheinsreport.pdf INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND FREE SPEECH IN THE ONLINE WORLD: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices] - by Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins<br />
*[http://ahtoapajalahti.fi/uploads/2010/03/jokapiraatinoikeus.pdf Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish)] - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*[http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Little Brother] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.utcourts.gov/general/edresources/docs/Graphic_Novel-Justice_Case_Files-01.pdf NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy] - by National Center for State Courts<br />
*Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution] - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman<br />
*[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html The dotCommunist Manifesto] - by Eben Moglen<br />
*[http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/archive/dixon-review.pdf The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research] - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh<br />
*[http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf The Future of Ideas] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*[http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/texts/references/pasquinelli-Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage] - by Matteo Pasquinelli<br />
*[http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book The Pirate's Dilemma] - by Matt Mason<br />
*[http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/ Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets] - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/DMCA_unintended_v4.pdf Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA] - by the EFF<br />
*[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
<br />
===Case Studies===<br />
*[http://patentoppositions.org/case_studies/4f106d0504a7f92f5b000003 Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil] - <br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvfOlPYifY A Garden in My Apartment] - by Britta Riley<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Copying Is Not Theft] - by Question Copyright<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 Copyright: Forever LessOne Day] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[https://gnunet.org/rms2012tum Copyright vs. Community] - by Richard Stallman<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html Embrace the remix] - by Kirby Ferguson<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ How YouTube is Driving Innovation] - by Chris Anderson<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture] - by Johanna Blakley<br />
*[http://www.presspauseplay.com/ PressPausePlay]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/31100268 PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet] - by Fight for the Future<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc SOPA and PIPA] - by Khan Academy<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM SOPA Cabana] - by Dan Bull<br />
*[https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html The $8 billion iPod] - by Rob Reid<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The Coming War on General Computing] - by Cory Doctorow<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html The New Open Source Economics] - by Yochai Benkler<br />
<br />
==Privacy==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/appeals-court-police-can-track-cell-phones-without-warrant/ Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant] - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/245229/carrier_iq_rootkit_reportedly_logs_everything_on_millions_of_phones_updated.html Carrier IQ Rootkit] - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/does-surveillance-affect-us-even-when-we-cant-confirm-were-being-watched Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain] - ACLU (Jay Stanley)<br />
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/13/is-the-fbi-using-carrier-iq-for-domestic-surveillance/ Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance] - Forbes (E.D. Kain)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/ Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19669803 Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world] - Denver Post (John Ingold)<br />
*[http://wearcam.org/netcam_privacy_issues.html PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS] - Steve Mann<br />
*[https://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/privacy-questions-accompany-automated-li/240005760 Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners] - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)<br />
*[http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/stingrays-biggest-unknown-technological-threat-cell-phone-privacy Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About] - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)<br />
*[https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/wseltzer/stopping-sopas-anticircumvention Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention] - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)<br />
*[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-telecom-nsa-20121009,0,5705204.story Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit] - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8 Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network] - Business Insider (David Seaman)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-true-picture-of-the-women-who-face-late-term-abortion/2012/07/27/gJQAxSCjEX_story.html The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion] - Washington Post (Christy Zink)<br />
*[http://owni.eu/2012/07/27/the-known-unknowns-of-skype-interception-christopher-soghoian/ The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception] - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/ TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program] - RT<br />
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57537559-38/u.n-calls-for-anti-terror-internet-surveillance/ U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance] - CNET (Declan McCullagh)<br />
*[http://rt.com/usa/news/government-federal-software-agency-972/ US government spies on federal staffers] - RT<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draft-cyber-order-promotes-voluntary-critical-infrastructure-protections White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections] - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)<br />
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/260980/federal_judge_your_location_is_no_more_private_than_the_color_of_your_car.html Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car] - by PC World (Dan Tynan)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices] - EFF<br />
*[http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL] - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm<br />
*[http://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf Locational Privacy] - by The EFF<br />
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp54.pdf Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet] - by Jonathan D. Wallace<br />
*[http://www.aclunc.org/docs/technology/privacy_and_free_speech_it's_good_for_business.pdf Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business] - by the ACLU of North Carolina<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html FBI, here I am!] - by Hasan Elahi<br />
*[http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-domestic-spying-program-that-could-be-tracking-you-right-now?c=cp2 Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now] - by Laura Poitras<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html Three Types of Online Attack] - by Mikko Hypponen<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ Your Phone Company is Watching] - by Malte Spitz<br />
<br />
==Transparency and Accountability==<br />
===Articles===<br />
*[http://www.carighttoknow.org/10_million $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels] - Right to Know<br />
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/are-millennials-the-screwed-generation.html Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?] - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)<br />
*[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/ Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating] - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)<br />
*[http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11 Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes] - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)<br />
*[http://endthelie.com/2012/08/18/court-dismisses-case-based-on-state-secrets-privilege/ Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege] - by End the Lie<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/epa-fracking-wyoming-pollution_n_1136907.html EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding] - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)<br />
*[http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-undercover-investigators-animal-enterprise-terrorism-act/5440/ FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists] - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)<br />
*[https://www.examiner.com/article/federal-court-rules-favor-of-ndaa Federal court rules in favor of NDAA] - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)<br />
*[http://grist.org/natural-gas/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/ For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals] - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-terror Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing] - Wired (David Kravets)<br />
*[http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams]<br />
*[http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/ Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs] - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)<br />
*[http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice-criminal-law-reform/hitting-two-birds-one-stone-strategies-addressing-indigent Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration] - ACLU<br />
*[http://www.boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying] - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Homeland-Security-s-Intent-by-Jack-Swint-120821-433.html Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War] - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)<br />
*[https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaelliott/horror-hospital-the-most-shocking-photos-and-test Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal] - Buzzfeed<br />
*[http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/How-The-American-Universit-by-Debra-Leigh-Scott-120819-373.html How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps] - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)<br />
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/indefinite-military-detention-defense-bill-citizens_n_1146181.html Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens] - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)<br />
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.criminology.com/know-your-rights.gif Know your rights (Infographic)] - Criminology.com<br />
*[http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/ MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested] - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iGkaTia8 Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so] - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)<br />
*[http://online.wsj.com/article/AP560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b.html NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear] - Wall Street Journal<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/25/nypd-occupy-protests-report?cat=world&type=article NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study] - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)<br />
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-struggles-to-live-up-to-its-transparency-promise-post-analysis-shows/2012/08/03/71172462-dcae-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_story.html Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows] - Washington Post (James Ball)<br />
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obama-plans-for-10-more-years-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-drone/264034/ Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone] - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever] - RT<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-executive-order-legislation-993/ Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order] - RT<br />
*[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate] - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)<br />
*[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/03/162209738/senate-panels-finds-anti-terror-data-sharing-centers-were-useless Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless] - NPR (Eyder Peralta)<br />
*[http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/07/25/senate-proposal-for-curbing-leaks-escalates-restrictions-on-intelligence-employees-who-talk-to-media/ Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media] - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)<br />
*[http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/the-boston-fishing-party-and-australians-rights-online/ The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online] - Crickey (Bernard Keane)<br />
*[http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-real-reason-for-obamas-threat-to-veto-the-indefinite-detention-bill-hint-its-not-to-protect-liberty.html The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)] - by Washington's Blog<br />
*[http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-25/same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones] - ZeroHedge (George Washington)<br />
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools The US schools with their own police] - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)<br />
*[http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent] - Salon (Natasha Lennard)<br />
*[https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-torture-prison-judge-032/ US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners] - RT<br />
*[http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/ US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords] - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)<br />
*[http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books] - Sound+Noise (Tom)<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*[http://lessig.org/blog/d4i.pdf d4i (Declaration for Independence)] - by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/NetNeutrality_9781849662192/preface-ba-9781849662192-preface-0001.xml Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution] - by Christopher T. Marsden<br />
*[http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age] - by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
<br />
===Videos===<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Beware Online Filter Bubbles] - by Eli Pariser<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1558 Demand a more Open Source Government] - by Beth Noveck<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D1299CC3E46CB378C44D0E39AC6AB7A Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along] - James J. Delaney?<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A8E93E45C42846D11FBE0E3A4B1355A2 Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM Hitler reacts to SOPA]<br />
*[http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/ How pervasive has government distrust gotten?] - by Ivan Krastev<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxyi_3CGrk In Defense of Dialogue] - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY Gerrymandering Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html Hollywood and the War Machine] - Al Jazeera<br />
*[http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=39548FF4687EE675D6C5B234338B3E1E SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock] - SNL<br />
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'] - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM4JupBz_E The power of the informal economy] - by Robert Neuwirth<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k The Trouble with the Electoral College] - by C.G.P. Grey<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMPrzr7aug Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know] - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum<br />
<br />
==Reference==<br />
<br />
===Court Cases===<br />
*[http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/Pages/default.aspx List of Copyright Cases] - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools<br />
<br />
===Legislation===<br />
*[http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf ACTA] - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities<br />
*[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/coica_files/COICA3.pdf COICA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf DMCA] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424 HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008] - by Congress<br />
*[http://www.keepthewebopen.com/ OPEN Act (edits suggestable)] - Congress<br />
*[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf USA PATRIOT Act of 2001] - by Congress<br />
*[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf PROTECT IP Act] - by Congress<br />
<br />
===Philosophy===<br />
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Communist Manifesto] - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels<br />
*[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf From Dictatorship to Democracy] - by Gene Sharp<br />
*[http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf Iceland's New Constitution] - Iceland Constitutional Council<br />
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Institutions vs. Collaboration] - by Clay Shirky<br />
*[http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/ The Pirate Wheel] - Pirates<br />
*[http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?] - by yanis<br />
<br />
===Reports, Statistics, and Studies===<br />
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement] - by the White House<br />
*[http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0816/final.pdf Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes] - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division<br />
*[https://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.pdf Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society] - by American Meteorological Society Council<br />
*[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/100921/what-filesharing-studies-really-say-conclusions-and-links/ Filesharing Study Compilation] - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/general/1020/wipo_pub_1020.pdf Guide to WIPO Services] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm International Trade Statistics 2008] - by the WTO<br />
*[http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC] - U.S. Department of Homeland Security<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf Report on Orphan Works] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it <s>[http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)]</s>[http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf KEI Mirror] [http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Maryland Pirates Mirror] [http://www.masspirates.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rsc_policy_brief_-_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_-_november_16_2012.pdf Massachusetts Pirates Mirror] [http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf Scribd Mirror] - Republican Study Committee<br />
*[http://www.copyright.gov/reports/s-plan2008/s-plan2008-2013.pdf Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013] - by the United States Copyright Office<br />
*[https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf The Case Against Patents] - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*[http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ The Case for Copyright Reform] - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.pdf Understanding Copyright and Related Rights] - by the WIPO<br />
*[http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/895/wipo_pub_895.pdf Understanding Industrial Property] - by the WIPO<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*[https://alkasir.com/ Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship]<br />
*[http://www.cvdazzle.com/ CV Dazzle] - Computer Vision Camoflage<br />
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide DIY Mesh Guide] - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices<br />
*[http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ Defective by Design] - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives<br />
*[https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page Encrypt Everything] - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada<br />
*[https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/index.en.html FreedomBox] - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet<br />
*[http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)]<br />
*[https://crypto.is/ The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy)] - Crypto.is<br />
*[http://www.un.int/kamal/thelawofcyberspace/The%20Law%20of%20Cyber-Space.pdf The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations] - by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*[http://www.spyfiles.org/ List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country] - compiled by Wikileaks<br />
*[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/ Who Bought Your Politician?] - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign</div>Itsparahttps://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=PNC_11/28/12&diff=1898PNC 11/28/122012-11-29T03:58:57Z<p>Itspara: Protected "PNC 11/28/12" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))</p>
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<div>=PNC Meeting Agenda=<br />
::'''--- 11/212012 21:00h EST ---'''<br />
::IRC: irc.pirateirc.net<br />
::Channel: #pnc<br />
::Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_11/28/12<br />
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==Minutes==<br />
'''Record of the meeting'''<br />
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=== 1 - ATTENDEES ===<br />
==== 1.1 - Members of the PNC ====<br />
*Attending<br />
**Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts<br />
**Joseph T. Klein, Wisconsin<br />
**Kyle DeVore, Oregon<br />
**Jarod Smith, Georgia<br />
**Bradley Hall, Florida<br />
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*Excused<br />
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*Unexcused<br />
**New York<br />
**California<br />
**Washington<br />
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*Probation<br />
**Oklahoma<br />
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==Minutes==<br />
'''Record of the meeting'''<br />
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==== 1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC ====<br />
*Benjamin Sauerhaft Coplon, PA<br />
*Nick DeSalvio, Maryland <br />
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==== 1.3 - Officers of the PNC ====<br />
*Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY, Captain<br />
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=== 2 - PROCEEDINGS ===<br />
Meeting opened at: 9:06pm EST by Lindsay-Anne Brunner<br />
*Meeting chaired by Lindsay-Anne Brunner<br />
*Secretary for this meeting is Daniel Gorski<br />
*Quorum is established: 5 out of 8 Members present<br />
*Logging Enabled: Yes<br />
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=== 3 - Review of previous minutes ===<br />
http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_11/15/12<br />
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=== 4 - REPORTS ===<br />
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==== 4.3 - Short Report From Committees ====<br />
=====IT Committee=====<br />
*Work on site is slow, need more people to help create content or just help out<br />
*Contact information for the State Parties is requested <br />
<br />
=====Press Committee=====<br />
*no update<br />
*Coplon agrees to be "fallback" for press committee<br />
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=== 5 - Agenda Items ===<br />
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*Election of First Officer and Quartermaster<br />
**Caleb Langeslag is voted in as First Officer<br />
**Daniel Gorski is voted in as Quartermaster<br />
<br />
=== - AOB - ===<br />
<br />
*Next meeting: 12/26/2012 at 9PM EST<br />
*Meeting closed: 10:20pm EST<br />
<br />
=== - Logs of the Meeting - ===<br />
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<kusanagi> Okay, guys, called for 9:06pm, Roll Call!<br />
<mildbeard> Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts<br />
<kusanagi> Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY, Captain<br />
<Bosun> Joseph T. Klein, Wisconsin<br />
<MrSquared> Kyle DeVore, Oregon<br />
<jarod_> JAROD SMITH GEORGIA<br />
* rabsrob (~rab@199.167.tr.jg) has joined #pnc<br />
<Rush> Bradley Hall, Florida<br />
<itspara> Nick, Maryland <br />
* jarod (~yaaic@06-46-861-373.pools.spcsdns.net) has joined #pnc<br />
<OyajiVyse> Daniel Gorski, New York<br />
<kusanagi> Huzzah<br />
<kusanagi> Ok, in the topic is the agenda<br />
<itspara> the date is wrong<br />
<mildbeard> Hey I need an account?<br />
<kusanagi> no, i got the date wrong<br />
* kusanagi has changed the topic to: Pirate National Committee of the United States Pirate Party | Meeting Agenda for 11/29/2012: https://pnc.piratenpad.de/11-28-12 | Committees: http://iPir.at/committee | Meetings held on Wednesday, 2100EDT/1800PDT | <br />
* kusanagi has changed the topic to: Pirate National Committee of the United States Pirate Party | Meeting Agenda for 11/28/2012: https://pnc.piratenpad.de/11-28-12 | Committees: http://iPir.at/committee | Meetings held on Wednesday, 2100EDT/1800PDT | <br />
<kusanagi> There we go, sorry<br />
<kusanagi> long day<br />
<itspara> >Guests are not allowed to join that pad. Please sign in. <br />
<kusanagi> I'll open it up.. could have sworn..<br />
<MrSquared> https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-11-28-12<br />
<kusanagi> https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-11-28-12<br />
<kusanagi> thank you kyle<br />
<kusanagi> Man, I'm out of it lol<br />
* kusanagi has changed the topic to: Pirate National Committee of the United States Pirate Party | Meeting Agenda for 11/28/2012: https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-11-28-12 | Committees: http://iPir.at/committee | Meetings held on Wednesday, 2100EDT/1800PDT | <br />
<kusanagi> ok, agenda in topic for reals now<br />
<kusanagi> Ok, to reports, is IT here?<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, anything on the IT front?<br />
<itspara> I don't believe IT has anything to report. CalebLangeslag can correct me if im wrong.<br />
<kusanagi> Don't think he's in right now, Mr CalebLangeslag <br />
<itspara> Work on the new website is slow and sluggish. like a wet sponge.<br />
<kusanagi> Is there anything we can do to try to step up that pace? :/<br />
<kusanagi> I've started to work on it as well... is it just a personnel issue?<br />
<itspara> We can definitely include more people who are interested in creating content or participate otherwise. We are using wordpress. <br />
<mildbeard> What needs to be done aside from content?<br />
<itspara> Additionally we should probably decide what specifically needs to be worked on.<br />
<kusanagi> Contact information for states is needed, now that I recall<br />
<itspara> Not much, mostly content and figuring out which plugins we want to use and make sure they work properly. <br />
<kusanagi> So, if you guys don't mind sending your site/contact emails for your state party my way, that would rock. I could finish that as soon as I have the info<br />
<passstab> kbenjamin sauerhaft coplon chester PA (sorry)<br />
<kusanagi> Better late than never :)<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, that's pretty much all for IT?<br />
<itspara> I believe so<br />
<kusanagi> Press was cancelled this week, as I had an interview during the meeting time. i also would like if someone stepped up as new head for the press committee, because right now I'm still head of that.. I think someone else should take over<br />
<kusanagi> if anyone's interested, of course XD<br />
<passstab> i'll be fallback if you want<br />
<kusanagi> that would rock so much<br />
<passstab> :)<br />
<kusanagi> yaaaay!<br />
<kusanagi> ok, so, onward to FO and QM election<br />
<kusanagi> For FO, CalebLangeslag is the only candidate<br />
<kusanagi> So.. Um, I don't know how this is going to work.. Just aye-or-nay, I suppose?<br />
<Bosun> aye<br />
<mildbeard> aye<br />
<MrSquared> aye<br />
<passstab> abstain :)<br />
<kusanagi> jarod, Rush <br />
<kusanagi> Ok, I'll call it. 3 aye, 2.5abstain, CalebLangeslag is FO<br />
<mildbeard> Congratulations to CalebLangeslag!<br />
<kusanagi> Hooray!<br />
* kusanagi throws confetti<br />
* Missle59 throws a party<br />
* mildbeard sips rum.<br />
<kusanagi> now, for QM, again, one nominee, OyajiVyse. So, let's vote on it. Aye, Nay, Abstain<br />
<Bosun> eye<br />
<mildbeard> aye<br />
<itspara> abstain<br />
<MrSquared> aye<br />
<passstab> aye<br />
<jarod_> abstain<br />
<itspara> *abstaining due to lack of information on nominee<br />
<Rush> aye<br />
<Rush> and aye on the other, there's only one nominee, right?<br />
<kusanagi> Rush, the first vote's closed already<br />
<kusanagi> Bosun, that's aye, correct?<br />
<Bosun> aye<br />
<Bosun> yes<br />
<Bosun> true<br />
<kusanagi> and calling it, 4 for, 1.5 abstain<br />
<kusanagi> congrats OyajiVyse \<br />
* mildbeard gulps rum and toasts congratulations to OyajiVyse.<br />
<itspara> why are we voting publicly? I thought we did this privately<br />
<OyajiVyse> Thank you kindly :)<br />
<itspara> Congrats CalebLangeslag and OyajiVyse <br />
<Rush> There was only one candidate for each position<br />
<itspara> I know<br />
<itspara> but still.<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, it's one candidate for each position<br />
<kusanagi> ok, yay, full new board<br />
<kusanagi> Anyone have AOB to add?<br />
<itspara> I know. I have no probems with it.. i just thought all elections would have private voting regardless <br />
<kusanagi> Not for one candidate, but meh.<br />
<kusanagi> Anyone have anything else to go over tonight?<br />
<itspara> ok<br />
<kusanagi> Cos, if not, we can leave. Next meeting is December 26th (TWENTY-SIXTH) 2012.<br />
<kusanagi> Vote to adjourn?<br />
* kusanagi gives channel operator status to CalebLangeslag<br />
<mildbeard> Hold on, why is the next meeting 12/26?<br />
* kusanagi gives channel operator status to OyajiVyse<br />
<kusanagi> We're going to start going monthly instead of weekly<br />
<itspara> When was this decided?<br />
<kusanagi> It wasn't decided on, I feel it may be more productive to start having the meetings monthly instead of weekly. If you guys feel otherwise, then we can come back next week.<br />
<passstab> can i talk about my classes idea?<br />
<mildbeard> I'm not against it. Just came as a surprise. <br />
<kusanagi> sure, passstab <br />
<itspara> I think it should be voted on<br />
<kusanagi> Does a state wish to make a motion to vote on the meeting date/frequency?<br />
<passstab> i think that we should have pirate classes, for pirates , by pirates, about pirate stuff<br />
<kusanagi> Pirate stuff, like coding, crypto, and the like?<br />
<Rush> Hacker High School<br />
<mildbeard> Massachusetts Pirate Party co-sponsored a crypto party. Have you heard of them? We could have an online one using videos or something...<br />
<passstab> as well as stuff regarding running a party<br />
<passstab> getting a state party off the ground, campaign law, how to talk to people<br />
<mildbeard> We had a conference in 2012 - I think it was around March - and we were thinking of having a virtual conference that we'd publish as a series of videos. It is not exactly the same as passstab's idea but similar. I think MAPP is interested in your idea, but would have to discusss with them. <br />
<kusanagi> It was in March, OyajiVyse and I attended. It was awesome :D<br />
<mildbeard> thanks<br />
<passstab> my idea was to have them online<br />
<Rush> Passtab, only if the next video in the series is "how to talk to girls"<br />
<Rush> lol<br />
<passstab> lol<br />
<mildbeard> I would love to give a talk on peer to peer networks and the future of the pirate party. <br />
<kusanagi> kind of like a pirate ted talk<br />
<mildbeard> LOL we could create TED Pirate.<br />
<Rush> YES, but it'd have to be TEDx Pirate<br />
<mildbeard> Because x marks the spot...<br />
<Rush> Yes<br />
<mildbeard> love it<br />
<kusanagi> That is brilliant<br />
<kusanagi> We should work that. i really like that idea. <br />
<mildbeard> I will contact TED and see what it takes to use TEDx. <br />
<kusanagi> awesome, thank you<br />
<passstab> ted is cc-by-nc-nd :(<br />
<mildbeard> TEDx events may not be used to promote political agendas.<br />
<itspara> hrmm<br />
<kusanagi> :/<br />
<itspara> not surprising<br />
<kusanagi> so it would have to be our own series<br />
<itspara> still.. we should totally do it<br />
<kusanagi> We really should, that would be excellent<br />
<Rush> What would we call it? W"B"T??<br />
<kusanagi> Pirate School<br />
<Rush> That sounds like Driving School, something you'd go to if you got a ticket<br />
<itspara> true<br />
<itspara> Pirate U<br />
<MrSquared> Call it "The Poopdeck"<br />
<passstab> ^^<br />
<itspara> U as in university<br />
<passstab> anyone interested in forming a committee for this?<br />
<mildbeard> SAB x Pirate<br />
<mildbeard> Pirate X<br />
<Missle59> The School of Swashbuckling and Adventuring<br />
<kusanagi> passstab, would you like to head the committee?<br />
<passstab> sure<br />
<itspara> This could go along with the youtube channel I suggested outside of this meeting<br />
<mildbeard> MAPP has a youtube channel already.<br />
* passstab is taking on a lot of responsibility while tired :/<br />
<mildbeard> Should we just have a discussion on SAB and place this on the agenda for next mtg?<br />
<itspara> I think it would be nice to have a national channel.. so we can brand ourselves nationally<br />
<kusanagi> yes, mi<br />
<kusanagi> mildbeard, <br />
<itspara> on SAB or the forums.. yes<br />
<mildbeard> Does the new site have a forum?<br />
<itspara> we have had a forum for over a month<br />
<itspara> a nice new phpbb3 forum<br />
<kusanagi> I believe the one we have now will continue to be our forum<br />
<itspara> http://pirate-party.us/forum<br />
<mildbeard> ah ok. I didn't see a link on the testing.usporates.org site - so I wasn't sure.<br />
<mildbeard> testing.uspirates.org I mean<br />
* passstab will register #uspp-video<br />
<itspara> there should be a link along the top... unless someone removed it<br />
<kusanagi> I didn't see one last night..<br />
<mildbeard> Aah. Didn't notice. That and the login links are kinda subtle.<br />
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<mildbeard> OK so I'd like to make a motion about the next meeting date if that's OK?<br />
<kusanagi> sure<br />
<mildbeard> Move to hold our next meeting on Wed 12/26.<br />
<kusanagi> second?<br />
<MrSquared> second<br />
<itspara> observers cant second :/<br />
<Bosun> second<br />
<kusanagi> Vote on next meeting date to be Dec. 26 - aye or nay?<br />
<Bosun> aye<br />
<passstab> aye<br />
<mildbeard> aye<br />
<MrSquared> aye<br />
<itspara> nay<br />
<kusanagi> jarod? jarod_?<br />
<mildbeard> I wish we'd had more discussion before voting, because I'd like to understand itspara's objection. <br />
<jarod_> aye<br />
<jarod_> sorry at work<br />
<kusanagi> it's fine<br />
<itspara> I feel that meeting often helps keep everyone in the loop<br />
<itspara> and allows for voting on items more often<br />
<kusanagi> we can call a meeting sooner, if needed<br />
<passstab> we should have people on more committees to make up for it<br />
<itspara> ok... I still keep my nay vote... but that is good<br />
<mildbeard> This is a great time of year to have a break, but maybe every 2 weeks in the future would be OK? <br />
<kusanagi> we have that option as well<br />
<kusanagi> mildbeard, yeah, that may be better in the future<br />
<kusanagi> OyajiVyse, totals?<br />
<mildbeard> Also it would be nice to explore other times to meet. I know this doesn't work for some states. <br />
<OyajiVyse> 4 aye, 0.5 nay<br />
<kusanagi> especially the more western states<br />
<kusanagi> vote passed, next meeting dec 26th. make sure to bring boxes<br />
<itspara> I also want to see forums be used more... Eventually they should replace SAB as we don't have control over the SAB<br />
<kusanagi> that's true too, itspara <br />
<itspara> > make sure to bring boxes<br />
<kusanagi> boxing day joke.<br />
<mildbeard> ooooohhhhhh<br />
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<itspara> Next IT meeting that actually happens I will try to make it a priority to build in mailing list functionality into the forums SAB section<br />
<kusanagi> anyway, bad jokes aside, anyone want to move to adjourn?\<br />
<itspara> oh<br />
<itspara> I cant move<br />
<sacha> whoa what happened with the elections?<br />
<itspara> im an observer<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, i'll see if I can help with that<br />
<sacha> Everyone voted in that was supposed to be?<br />
<kusanagi> sacha, CalebLangeslag and OyajiVyse won.<br />
<mildbeard> Sacha, we have a new QM and a new FO.<br />
<itspara> sacha: we elected you supreme leader<br />
<sacha> Wait it has only been 14 mins<br />
<kusanagi> 14?<br />
<sacha> oh jk<br />
<mildbeard> 74<br />
<kusanagi> uh.. you may need to fix your clock<br />
<itspara> an hour and 14<br />
<sacha> I woke up late have no idea what time it is<br />
<kusanagi> we're about to adjourn<br />
<mildbeard> Are you in Australia?<br />
<itspara> I think we should give sacha time to bring up something if she wishes<br />
<kusanagi> i think she needs a coffee first<br />
<sacha> Lol<br />
<itspara> Sacha, any AOB stuff?<br />
<sacha> I was just going to ask about how making Liz's Fiance QM would affect things<br />
<sacha> Does it bother anyone?<br />
<kusanagi> it would lead to him getting beat if he doesn't do what he needs to.<br />
<sacha> They wouldn't be arguing as independent entities really<br />
<sacha> Or him getting beat if he disagrees with you<br />
<itspara> Im not sure, we will have to keep an eye on whether or not that causes any issues.<br />
<sacha> which could be a problem<br />
<mildbeard> Personally I'm glad someone stepped forward, and I don't think we should consider it a problem until it actually becomes one. <br />
<kusanagi> It won't cause any issues, and I won't beat him if he disagrees.<br />
<sacha> Is Travis banned from IRC?<br />
<itspara> If you do kusanagi, bear in mind both of you could lose your positions for abusing the system<br />
<kusanagi> He was temp banned because he was flooding before. he's been unbanned for some time now<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, well aware<br />
<sacha> I agree with you Mildbeard it is something I will just watch and I was curious what others thought<br />
<mildbeard> wait - what happened with Travis?<br />
<kusanagi> his client is messed up and it keeps joining then flooding out<br />
<kusanagi> he said to ban him when it happens, and I do and let him know immediately.<br />
<mildbeard> aah ok. that's not as controversial as it sounded!!!<br />
<itspara> not like he was arrested for building nukes<br />
<kusanagi> mildbeard, we almost had dramas! hahah<br />
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<mildbeard> itspara - if you start using the forums I will be sure to reply to you there!<br />
<mildbeard> Move to adjourn. <br />
<kusanagi> oooh.. we fell under quorum.<br />
<kusanagi> anyone second? MrSquared, Bosun?<br />
<itspara> I want to see the captain actively using the forums as well...<br />
<Bosun> second<br />
<kusanagi> itspara, I will<br />
<kusanagi> ok, vote to adjourn<br />
<mildbeard> aye<br />
<sacha> k all is good<br />
<itspara> aye<br />
<mildbeard> I hope the IT committee will let me create a policy forum. I would post there a lot. <br />
<itspara> I can set that up now if you wish<br />
<itspara> I think we should remodel the forum after the green parties shiny new forum<br />
<kusanagi> ok, we're under quorum anyway, good night, next meeting is boxing day, dec 26th unless called before then. good night<br />
<Bosun> aye adjourn<br />
<OyajiVyse> good night all, and thank you once again :)<br />
<Bosun> goodnight<br />
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<font size="5">'''Constitution of the Pirate Party of the United States'''</font><br />
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<font size="3">'''PREAMBLE'''</font><br />
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We, the Pirates of the United States of America hereby unite in common purpose to promote open culture and oppose monopolies; to protect individual privacy; to put people before corporations; to support open and transparent government based on solid evidence and reasoning; to guarantee equality to all people; and to organize ourselves according to our shared values.<br />
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For our values, we have been derided as “pirates”. For our hope that every person may be free to access all of human knowledge, we have been called “pirates”. For our belief that one need not ask permission to participate in governance, industry, culture, and other aspects of society, we have been called “pirates”. For our insistence that citizens should not be surveilled and distrusted as if they are criminals, we have been called “pirates”. For our rejection of authority and profit-seeking when it does not serve the common good of all people, we have been called “pirates”.<br />
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We reclaim this label of “pirate” and abjure its derogatory, incendiary implication. We are Pirates. We stand for the liberty, equality, and solidarity of all human beings, and against all threats they may face.<br />
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We are Pirates, and we hereby establish the Pirate Party of the United States of America.<br />
<br />
==ARTICLE I: Pirate Party of the United States of America==<br />
===Section 1: Name===<br />
This Constitution shall govern the association known as the <u>'''Pirate Party of the United States of America'''</u>, hereinafter referred to as the <u>'''Party'''</u>.<br />
<br />
===Section 2: Mission===<br />
The Party shall:<br />
<br />
#Give voice to the Core Values of the Party.<br />
#Adopt and promote statements of policy which implement these Core Values.<br />
#Nominate and assist in the election of Pirate candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States, and support Party and Party-endorsed candidates for public office.<br />
#Promote the growth of state and local Pirate Parties, and assist in their activities.<br />
#Engage in any other activities incidental or related to the above.<br />
<br />
===Section 3: Core Values===<br />
We, the Pirates of the United States of America, form the Party on the basis of the following <u>'''Core Values'''</u>:<br />
<br />
#We stand for open culture. No one should have the power to prevent the free exchange and expression of ideas, tools, or works.<br />
#We stand for transparency and openness. Government activities should not be hidden from the public.<br />
#We stand for individual privacy. The amount of oppression in a society is inversely proportional to its privacy protections. Individuals must be free to make personal decisions that do not harm another person.<br />
#We are anti-monopoly. No monopoly should be able to prevent works, tools, or ideas from: being freely used, expressed, exchanged, recombined, or taught; nor to violate individual privacy or human rights. A creator's right to be compensated for their work or idea is only acceptable within these limitations.<br />
#We stand for individuals over institutions. Universal human rights apply only to human beings, and not to corporations, limited liability organizations, or other group entities.<br />
#We are a post-ideological values-based meritocracy. We place all options on the table. We choose a specific approach because the available evidence shows that it is the best way to promote our values. We do not make decisions based merely on tradition, popularity, authority or political expediency.<br />
#We are egalitarian. We believe in equality and a level playing field. We accept input from all sources, and we value all people equally.<br />
#We actively practice these values. We hold ourselves accountable for our own adherence to these principles.<br />
<br />
==ARTICLE II: Pirate National Committee==<br />
===Section 1: Purpose===<br />
#The fundamental purpose of the Pirate National Committee, hereinafter referred to as the <u>'''PNC'''</u>, is to serve as the governing and organizing body for the Party. <br />
#The PNC shall adopt the most open, inclusive and egalitarian procedures and technologies available for running the Party’s web presence, for collaboration, and for conducting its own meetings. <br />
<br />
===Section 2: Written Policies===<br />
The PNC shall maintain written procedural and operational policies external to this Constitution, hereinafter referred to as the <u>'''Bylaws'''</u>, which it can adopt by a simple majority vote, and which will cover operational and procedural details, subject to the powers delegated to it by the Constitution but not appropriate for inclusion in in the Constitution itself.<br />
<br />
===Section 3: Platforms===<br />
#The PNC may adopt such optional platforms and policies as it sees fit by a majority vote. It may further enhance these mandatory platforms with optional positions by a simple majority vote. <br />
#None of the PNC’s optional platforms or positions shall be imposed on member states or individual members. Party members are free to disagree with optional platforms and policies.<br />
<br />
===Section 4: No Confidence Measure===<br />
#At any time during a PNC meeting, any Member State’s Representative or acting Representative may call for a vote of No Confidence on the grounds that the PNC’s processes are fundamentally unfair or fatally flawed, and that new Officers are needed. Once seconded, there shall not be a delay of more than 30 minutes in voting on such a motion, and it requires a ⅗ (three-fifths) majority to pass. <br />
#If a No Confidence measure passes, then the following sequence of events shall occur:<br />
##The terms of all PNC Officers shall end immediately. <br />
##The Representative who motioned for the No Confidence measure shall act as Temporary Captain, and the Representative who seconded it shall act as Temporary First Officer and Quartermaster. <br />
##The Temporary Officers shall immediately facilitate the selection of new permanent Officers.<br />
##No other motion shall come before the PNC until new Officers are selected. <br />
<br />
==ARTICLE III: Membership==<br />
===Section 1: Composition===<br />
The PNC shall be composed of:<br />
#The Officers set forth in Art. IV, hereinafter referred to as <u>'''Officers'''</u>.<br />
#At least two delegates from each State Pirate Party which meets the qualifications set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_State_Eligibility|Art. III §2]], hereinafter referred to as <u>'''Representatives'''</u>. A State which sends Representatives to the PNC shall be considered a <u>'''Member State'''</u> with <u>'''Representation in the PNC'''</u> for the purposes of this document.<br />
#At least one delegate from each State Pirate Party which does not yet meet the qualifications set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_State_Eligibility|Art. III §2]], hereinafter referred to as <u>'''Observers'''</u>. A State which sends Observers to the PNC shall be considered an <u>'''Observer State'''</u> for the purposes of this document.<br />
#At least one delegate from each Subcommittee formed by the PNC as set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#ARTICLE_V:_Subcommittees|Art. V]], hereinafter referred to as <u>'''Subcommittee Liaisons'''</u>.<br />
<br />
===Section 2: State Eligibility===<br />
In order to be eligible to send Representatives to the PNC, a state must:<br />
#Be home to a Pirate Party which is actively attempting to grow.<br />
#Adhere to the Core Values.<br />
#Appoint one Primary Representative and at least one Alternate Representative, both of whom must be active members of the state’s Pirate Party.<br />
#Regularly send a Representative to attend PNC meetings.<br />
#Maintain an active web presence with an easy method of contact by prospective members.<br />
#Apply for Representation, as set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_3:_Representation|Art. III §3]].<br />
#Ratify the PNC Constitution<br />
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===Section 3: Representation===<br />
The process by which states may apply for Representation in the PNC is as follows:<br />
#The <u>'''Applicant State'''</u> shall ask a current Representative in the PNC to be a <u>'''Sponsor'''</u> for their application.<br />
#At a PNC meeting, the Sponsor shall move to grant Representation to the Applicant State, which shall pass by majority vote. At least one prospective Representative from the Applicant State shall attend this meeting.<br />
#If the motion passes, the prospective Representatives from the Applicant State shall be declared Representatives to the PNC. The Applicant State shall be declared a Member State of the PNC.<br />
#If the motion does not pass, the prospective Representative(s) from the Applicant State shall be declared to be Observer(s), and the Applicant State an Observer State. The Applicant State shall be informed by the PNC what actions it must take to be eligible for Representation.<br />
#At the PNC’s discretion, an Observer State may be granted a Probationary Membership, as set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_4:_Probation|Art. III §4]], by a majority vote.<br />
#Alternatively to [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_3:_Representation|Art. III §3.1]], the Sponsor may move to declare the prospective Representative(s) of the Applicant State to be declared Observer(s), in the event that the Sponsor does not believe that the Applicant State is eligible for Member State status.<br />
<br />
===Section 4: Probation===<br />
A State may be declared, by majority vote of the PNC, a Probationary State if any of the following conditions are met:<br />
:1. No Representative from the Pirate Party of the State attends two consecutive PNC meetings, or:<br />
:2. If the Pirate Party of the State no longer meets the requirements set forth in<br />
:3. An observer state can apply for probationary status as a stepping-stone to full membership. <br />
[[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_State_Eligibility|Art. III §2]].<br />
The following subsections describe the Probationary process:<br />
:3. The status of Probationary State shall persist for a minimum of one month.<br />
:4. After this month, the PNC shall review whether or not the Pirate Party of the Probationary Member State meets the requirements set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_State_Eligibility|Art. III §2]]. <br />
:5. If the PNC finds that the Pirate Party of the Probationary State meets the requirements set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_State_Eligibility|Art. III §2]], the Probationary State shall be declared a Member State. Otherwise, the Probationary State shall be declared an Observer State. <br />
:6. In the event that the Pirate Party of the Probationary State has been dissolved, has become inactive, or is otherwise uncontactable, the PNC may use its discretion to eject the Probationary State from the PNC instead of declaring it to be an Observer as per [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_4:_Probation|Art. III §4.5]].<br />
Special cases:<br />
:7. At any time throughout the probationary period, the Representatives of the Probationary State may voluntarily declare their state to be an Observer, ending the Probationary process.<br />
:8. If the Pirate Party of a State does not adhere to the Core Values, the PNC shall not put the State on Probation but shall eject it by a ¾ (three-fourths) majority vote.<br />
<br />
===Section 5: Voting Rights===<br />
#Officers and Subcommittee Liaisons shall not participate in PNC votes, unless the Officer or Subcommittee Liaison in question is also acting as a State Representative.<br />
#All other PNC participants shall vote according to the Bylaws.<br />
<br />
===Section 6: Registration of Representatives===<br />
All primary or alternate Representatives of each Member or Observer state must be registered with the Captain or Quartermaster.<br />
<br />
==ARTICLE IV: Officers==<br />
===Section 1: Positions===<br />
The PNC shall be facilitated by the following Officers:<br />
#The <u>'''Captain'''</u> or Chairperson, who shall manage all administration and operations of the PNC, act as the chairperson and spokesperson of the Party, and facilitate PNC meetings.<br />
#The <u>'''First Officer'''</u> or Vice-Chair, who shall assist the Captain in managing the administration and operations of the PNC, and conduct business on behalf of the Captain or the Quartermaster in the event that the Captain is absent or incapacitated.<br />
#The <u>'''Quartermaster'''</u> or Secretary, who shall keep records of the minutes and logs for meetings, tally votes, and maintain a database of the members who compose the PNC as set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_1:_Composition|Art. III §1]].<br />
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===Section 2: Eligibility===<br />
#To be eligible to hold one of the positions set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_1:_Positions|Art. IV §1]], a candidate must be an active member of their State Pirate Party, or actively involved in Pirate politics if no state party exists. <br />
#To be eligible to hold the position of Captain set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_1:_Positions|Art. IV §1.1]], a candidate must not be a Representative of a Member State, or must abdicate the role of Representative upon election as Captain.<br />
<br />
===Section 3: Nomination===<br />
To nominate a Candidate for one of the positions set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_1:_Positions|Art. IV §1]]:<br />
#The prospective Candidate may nominate himself or herself, and a Representative or Officer must second this nomination; or:<br />
#A Representative or Officer may nominate the prospective Candidate, and the prospective Candidate must accept this nomination.<br />
After nomination:<br />
#A Candidate may withdraw their candidacy at any time before the election.<br />
<br />
===Section 4: Election===<br />
Election of Officers shall occur:<br />
#For all Officer positions, once every year at the Annual Meeting set forth in [[Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Constitution#Section_2:_Building_State_Parties|Art. VI §2]].<br />
#For an Officer position which is vacated out of schedule, as soon after the vacation as possible.<br />
The election procedure for an Officer position shall be as follows:<br />
#Officers shall be elected by Schulze Method via silent ballot.<br />
#Representatives to the PNC shall be eligible to vote in the election.<br />
#Prior to the election, the PNC shall elect an Election Committee of at least three persons to supervise the silent ballot, and to independently calculate the results.<br />
<br />
==ARTICLE V: Subcommittees==<br />
===Section 1: Purpose, Membership, and Operations===<br />
#A <u>'''Subcommittee'''</u> shall be a working group formed by act of the PNC to achieve a specified purpose.<br />
#A Subcommittee shall be composed of active members of any Pirate Party located in a Member State or Observer State.<br />
#Upon a Subcommittee’s creation by the PNC, the PNC shall delegate one or more of its members to act as Subcommittee Liaison to the PNC.<br />
#The PNC may specify the operating procedures of a Subcommittee and any criteria for its membership not otherwise specified in this Constitution. Any operating procedures or membership criteria not specified by the PNC shall be determined by the members of the Subcommittee.<br />
<br />
===Section 2: Creation and Dissolution===<br />
#The PNC can create Subcommittees as it sees fit by a simple majority vote.<br />
#The PNC can disband Subcommittees by a ⅔ (two-thirds) majority vote.<br />
<br />
==ARTICLE VI: Meetings==<br />
===Section 1: PNC Meeting===<br />
#The PNC shall meet as frequently as its members shall decide, but not less than once per year. <br />
#The PNC shall use the most effective and most inclusive collaboration tools available to meet and vote on decisions. <br />
#The Captain shall act as facilitator, with the First Officer serving as backup and the Quartermaster as second backup.<br />
#A quorum shall be 50% of all states, Probationary states, and Observer states, where Member states are counted as one and Probationary and Observer states are counted as one-half.<br />
#The PNC meeting will end with a passed motion to adjourn. <br />
#The PNC shall maintain written rules and policies to govern the conduct of the PNC meetings and other formal meetings of the Party. <br />
<br />
===Section 2: Building State Parties===<br />
#The Party shall hold such meetings and/or social gatherings as may be needed to build the membership of the party at a state and local level. <br />
#The Party shall use all means at its disposal to provide support to such groups as shall arise at a state level, as well as locally, nationally and internationally to support this goal of facilitating the creation of State Parties in all 50 States and every US Territory.<br />
#A yearly convention shall be held for the purposes of party elections at a date specified in the bylaws<br />
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==ARTICLE VII: Amendment and Ratification==<br />
#In general, this Constitution can be amended by a ⅔ (two-thirds) supermajority vote of the PNC. Initial ratification requires the same majority vote of the temporary PNC. The exception is that a ¾ (three-fourths) vote of the PNC is required to ratify each individual Core Value, to amend or remove existing Core Values, or to add new Core Values.<br />
#Following ratification by the PNC, this initial Constitution or any amendment to it must be ratified by ⅔ (two-thirds) of State Parties using their own internal ratification procedures. The votes of Pirate Parties located in Observer States and Probationary States are not counted for Constitutional ratification or amendment. <br />
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==ARTICLE VIII: Dissolution==<br />
#Dissolution of this PNC by consent shall require the unanimous agreement of the Member States together with a simple-majority vote (50% + 1) of Member States and Observer States at a General Meeting which has been publicized at least 30 days in advance to all Member States and Observer States of the PNC for the purpose of taking this vote. <br />
#Upon the dissolution or liquidation of the PNC, after all of its liabilities and obligations have been paid, satisfied, and discharged, all of the assets of the PNC shall be distributed for such educational, charitable and scientific purposes as the Member States (or such other persons as may be in charge of liquidation) shall determine. If an agreement cannot be met for the disbursment of funds, then a court of arbitration may be consulted.<br />
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<div>'''Agenda PNC MEETING'''<br />
:'''10/17/2012 21:00h EDT'''<br />
:IRC: irc.pirateirc.net<br />
:Channel: #pnc<br />
:Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/17/12<br />
<br />
==Attendees==<br />
=== Members of the PNC ===<br />
====Attending====<br />
*Orion Steele, CA<br />
*Bradley Hall, FL<br />
*Kyle Devore, OR<br />
*Zacqary Adam Green, NY<br />
*Erik Zoltan, MA<br />
*Jeff Talada, WA<br />
<br />
====Excused====<br />
<br />
<br />
====Unexcused====<br />
*WI<br />
*GA<br />
<br />
====Probation====<br />
*OK, 12th week<br />
<br />
<br />
===At Large Members of the PNC ===<br />
*Rab Kay, Idaho<br />
*Caleb Langeslag, MN<br />
<br />
===Officers of the PNC ===<br />
*Travis McCrea, NY, Captain<br />
<br />
==Proceedings==<br />
Meeting closed at: 9:01 pm EDT by <br />
*Meeting chaired by Travis McCrea<br />
*Acting Secretary for this meeting is Amanda Johnson<br />
*Quorum is established: 5 Members out of 8 present<br />
*Logging Enabled: Yes<br />
<br />
==Review of previous minutes ==<br />
http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/10/12<br />
<br />
==Reports==<br />
===Short report of the board members ===<br />
<br />
====Massachusetts====<br />
*Still using liquid feedbck<br />
*New treasurer<br />
*Holding a crypto party this weekend, offering a dozen or so classes two at a time on how to protect your identity. <br />
**note: A crypto party is a party where people get together and teach each other how to use privacy tools like Truecrypt, TOR, and PG<br />
*thinking of using a blog with forums and comments to discuss new policies and get feedback from supporters<br />
<br />
====Washington====<br />
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====Oregon====<br />
* Voice meeting over mumble soon<br />
<br />
====Georgia====<br />
<br />
====Florida====<br />
*All three officers have been pretty busy<br />
*Rush is continuing to work on NSH 2<br />
*Working to create a club at a local university for young piratesW<br />
<br />
====New York====<br />
*begun discussing an electoral alliance with the green party<br />
<br />
====California====<br />
*upgrading forums and using liquid feedback<br />
*have two student interns, one for social media (will be replaced soon) and one for music management<br />
*10th episode of pirate hour last week<br />
*have enough people to hold regional and state meetings<br />
*weekly meetings on mondays<br />
*working on legislation about spy drones to present to CA state legislator<br />
<br />
====Wisconsin====<br />
*http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/WAPP_State_Organization<br />
*organizational structure <br />
<br />
===Short Report From Committees ===<br />
====IT Committee====<br />
*sexy new forums are live at pirate-party.us/forum/<br />
*established new layout for forums<br />
*a new theme is being developed<br />
*waiting for content for website<br />
*registered uspirates.org<br />
<br />
====Bylaws Committee====<br />
*We should dissolve this committee<br />
**motion to dissolve<br />
**motion passes 4 for, .5 at large for<br />
<br />
====Convention Committee====<br />
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<br />
==Agenda Items ==<br />
<br />
*Creation of a Content Committee<br />
**Mildbeard, Zacqary, MrSquared, Rush, and Orionsteele shall be given authority and access to the website to create content<br />
<br />
*Amending the Constitution for IT Standards<br />
**discussion will be tabled for the IT committee to come up with standards<br />
<br />
*PNC State Rep Absence<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
*Amending the bylaws (Sacha)<br />
*Meetings times and dates (Rab)<br />
**the idea of asynchronous meetings was discussed<br />
**motion to move discussion of meeting times and dates to the forums<br />
***4 for, 1 at large for<br />
*Status of legal registration of the PNC<br />
*WA report<br />
*Is the PNC a national brand or is it a resource for the states, I keep seeing it make decisions like it is the first but the membership is of the second.<br />
**Motion to move discussion to email<br />
**Motion passes 3 for, .5 at large for<br />
<br />
*Next meeting: TBA at 9PM EDT<br />
*Meeting closed: 12:09am EDT<br />
<br />
==Logs==<br />
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*(21:01) <teamcoltra>Hear ye hear ye, I call this meeting to order and ask that all ye nobel gentlemen, gentlewomen, and gentlepersons declare your name and state for the records<br />
*(21:02) <OrionSteele>orion steele - california<br />
*(21:02) <teamcoltra>and also ye who be not nobel <br />
*(21:02) - Zacqary joined<br />
*(21:02) <MrSquared>Kyle DeVore, Oregon<br />
*(21:02) <CalebL[laptop]>Caleb Langeslag, Minnesota *(at-large)<br />
*(21:02) - teamcoltra set mode: +v OrionSteele <br />
*(21:02) - teamcoltra set mode: +v MrSquared <br />
*(21:02) - erixoltan joined<br />
*(21:02) - teamcoltra set mode: +v erixoltan <br />
*(21:02) <Rab_K>Rab Kay *(guest Idaho)<br />
*(21:02) <Sacha>Amanda Johnson, MI<br />
*(21:02) <Zacqary>Zacqary Adan Green, NY<br />
*(21:02) - mildbeard joined<br />
*(21:03) - teamcoltra set mode: +v Zacqary <br />
*(21:03) <mildbeard>Erik Zoltan, MAPP<br />
*(21:03) - teamcoltra set mode: +v mildbeard <br />
*(21:03) - erixoltan left<br />
*(21:03) - mildbeard quit *(Client Quit)<br />
*(21:03) <teamcoltra>I am voicing Brad Hall of Florida as he has queried me that he is here, just preoccupied right now<br />
*(21:04) - teamcoltra set mode: +v Rush <br />
*(21:04) - mildbeard joined<br />
*(21:04) - teamcoltra set mode: +v mildbeard <br />
*(21:04) <mildbeard>whoops<br />
*(21:04) <teamcoltra>Okay let's crank through this<br />
*(21:05) <teamcoltra>Sacha will be tonights QM, I am Travis McCrea the Captain. Meeting started at 9:01 EDT and we are going to start by reviewing last weeks minutes<br />
*(21:05) <teamcoltra>https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-10-17-12<br />
*(21:05) <teamcoltra>I will give you guys 3 minutes to review and point out any discrepancies <br />
*(21:05) <mildbeard>is that the minutes?<br />
*(21:05) <mildbeard>or agenda?<br />
*(21:06) <teamcoltra>http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/17/12<br />
*(21:06) <teamcoltra>sorry<br />
*(21:06) <teamcoltra>3 minutes starting now :P<br />
*(21:07) <mildbeard>Those minutes look like this week not last week?<br />
*(21:07) <Rush>Bradley Hall, Florida<br />
*(21:07) <MrSquared>http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/10/12<br />
*(21:07) <MrSquared>ftfy<br />
*(21:08) <teamcoltra>Thanks MrSquared <br />
*(21:08) <teamcoltra>Eventually I was going to get that right<br />
*(21:09) <teamcoltra>Okay<br />
*(21:09) <teamcoltra>Moving on<br />
*(21:09) <teamcoltra>mildbeard of Mass Pirates<br />
*(21:10) <mildbeard>We have a crypto party this Sunday.<br />
*(21:10) <mildbeard>We will be offering a dozen or so classes, two at a time, on how to protect your security online. <br />
*(21:10) <mildbeard>We have a new treasurer. <br />
*(21:11) <mildbeard>And similar to the Swedish Pirates, we are thinking of using a blog with comments and possibly a forum to discuss new policies and get feedback from our supporters. <br />
*(21:11) <mildbeard>Of course we're still using liquid feedback. <br />
*(21:12) <mildbeard>That's all that comes to mind. <br />
*(21:12) <teamcoltra>Sweet<br />
*(21:12) <teamcoltra>Thanks<br />
*(21:13) <teamcoltra>Washington and Oregon are absent<br />
*(21:13) <teamcoltra>err<br />
*(21:13) <teamcoltra>Washington and Georgia are absent<br />
*(21:13) <teamcoltra>Oregon is here with MrSquared <br />
*(21:13) <MrSquared>Oregon is working on holding a voice meeting over mumble in the near future. A few of our members expressed interest and we are working on getting the time for when we can meet.<br />
*(21:13) <MrSquared>That is it.<br />
*(21:14) <teamcoltra>Thanks<br />
*(21:14) <teamcoltra>Florida / Rush <br />
*(21:15) <teamcoltra>While we wait for Rush let's go to Zacqary <br />
*(21:15) <teamcoltra>from New York<br />
*(21:16) <Zacqary>We've begun a dialogue with the New York Green Party about the possibility of an electoral alliance. New York has electoral fusion laws which allow parties to endorse candidates instead of running them, so getting some Pirate candidates on two ballot lines *(and having Green activists help us campaign) could be beneficial.<br />
*(21:16) <Zacqary>Nothing official yet, though.<br />
*(21:17) <Zacqary>I think that's it.<br />
*(21:17) <Zacqary>Unless, teamcoltra, have you started Buffalo meetups yet?<br />
*(21:17) <teamcoltra>Not yet, but Aelish and I have actually gone out and found some print shops<br />
*(21:17) <teamcoltra>I live next door to one<br />
*(21:17) <Zacqary>Oh nice.<br />
*(21:17) <Zacqary>Okay, I think that's it then.<br />
*(21:17) <teamcoltra>*(and Zacqary knows my love for print shops... I might be spending a lot of time there)<br />
*(21:18) <teamcoltra>California, long time no see. Whats going on with you OrionSteele <br />
*(21:18) <Rush>*(here)<br />
*(21:18) <OrionSteele>hi<br />
*(21:18) <OrionSteele>we have a lot but we can let Rush go first if you want<br />
*(21:19) <teamcoltra>Someone start writing, whoever presses enter first just keep going and the other will go next<br />
*(21:19) <OrionSteele>- we have enough people in california to hold local regional meetings in addition to our state level meetings. There is a group holding weekly meetings in San Diego and we coordinate with them weekly, and also keep them updated on PNC happenings.<br />
*(21:19) <OrionSteele>- we have 2 student interns helping us with social media and music management *(social media person is about to be replaced as they haven't done much)<br />
*(21:20) <OrionSteele>- we held the 10th episode of the Pirate Hour last Thursday with David Brin *(sci fi author, futurist, political analyst) and it was awesome. Tomorrow we will be speaking to a political analyst about propositions in california<br />
*(21:20) <OrionSteele>- we are going to launch the new website with liquid feedback and new forums some time in the next week *(hopefully)<br />
*(21:21) <OrionSteele>- currently looking for a voter registration drive coordinator who can help us keep track of registration cards<br />
*(21:21) <OrionSteele>- we are working with the CA secretary of state to take an inventory of our current numbers because some people have signed up for CAPP and then got voter cards that say they are not affiliated with any party so we have an investigation going on for each county to see whether they are actually recording our numbers<br />
*(21:22) <OrionSteele>- weekly meetings continue every monday and we are going to turn the Pirate Radio station on as soon as the website goes up<br />
*(21:22) <OrionSteele>- our next step is to draft legislation and present it to the CA legislature...i think we've decided on a law banning drone tech in our state<br />
*(21:23) <OrionSteele>there are other things going on but i think that covers some of the highlights<br />
*(21:23) <mildbeard>awesome<br />
*(21:23) <Rush>All three officers of FLPP haven't been able to put as much time to FLPP as we would like, but I am slowly working on NSH2, it might be a month or so behind *(not been able to work on it as I'd like). We are working with a student to create the first Young *(Florida) Pirates club at a university in Florida. When successful, it will be a model for others. *(more)<br />
*(21:24) <Rush>*(continued) We're interested in CAPP's intern program and would like to learn more about it as we could totally use that here<br />
*(21:24) <Rush>Done.<br />
*(21:25) <teamcoltra>That sounds great, thanks both of you<br />
*(21:25) <teamcoltra>Wisconsin isn't here right?<br />
*(21:26) <teamcoltra>Okay<br />
*(21:26) <teamcoltra>I am going to take a little bit of privilege as the chair and ask to discuss something before all other reports and agenda items are discussed: Meeting times. <br />
*(21:27) <teamcoltra>We keep having so much to discuss that this topic keeps getting pushed back, and because we are having such low attendence after a couple hours we lose one or two people and we lose quorum <br />
*(21:27) <mildbeard>let's make a doodle to choose a good time. <br />
*(21:27) <teamcoltra>mildbeard would you do the honors of making one up, because I am also going to type out something else?<br />
*(21:29) <teamcoltra>What I would like to do is hold meeting every other week *(and hopefully ween ourselves up to once a month, but we still have lots of stuff to cover). This hopefully will put less pressure on everything having to be decided by the PNC and give people more empowerment to just do shit. <br />
*(21:29) <Rab_K>wed doesn't work for me ever *(except tnight)<br />
*(21:29) <mildbeard>What times should I put on the doodle?<br />
*(21:29) <teamcoltra>I would also like to cut out all reports from meetings, and have those emailed into a centeral address weekly where they will be published in some form *(on the wiki, or I was thinking maybe a github site) <br />
*(21:30) <itspara>why not have meetings every single night >:)<br />
*(21:30) <Zacqary>I think we need to ask ourselves what the benefit of real-time discussion in IRC is vs. doing this in an asynchronous fashion like a discussion forum?<br />
*(21:30) <Rush>itspara No.<br />
*(21:30) <teamcoltra>mildbeard put 3-9 M-F 12-9 Sa/Su ?<br />
*(21:30) <mildbeard>why not an irc as well as a forum?<br />
*(21:30) <CalebL[laptop]>I have a recommendation that member states utilize the mailing lists or *(newly revised forum) for debating some things to death before meetings, so that all that needs to be done is a final discussion and a vote, at meetings.<br />
*(21:31) <teamcoltra>Just so we can get a rough idea<br />
*(21:31) <Sacha>do we still have to ask permission to speak since this is an aob item?<br />
*(21:31) <Sacha>forum yay, mailing list boo<br />
*(21:31) <teamcoltra>everyone is invited to talk<br />
*(21:31) <teamcoltra>it affects us all equally<br />
*(21:31) <Sacha>I think we should try working with asynchronous meetings more seriously<br />
*(21:32) <teamcoltra>I, too, believe in asynchronous meetings. However, I think there is value in us all coming together to make decisions as well. It seems that when you have async meetings, people feel less accountable<br />
*(21:32) <Sacha>We talk about it but never work on it<br />
*(21:32) <Sacha>teamcoltra there are ways to prevent that<br />
*(21:32) <CalebL[laptop]>There's a nice shiny board specifically for the PNC, such as for forming/persuading/debating over motions/amendments.<br />
*(21:32) <Zacqary>How do people feel less accountable?<br />
*(21:33) <itspara>sacha, I know there may be merging forums and mailing lists if that can be figured out... but thats a topic for IT meetings<br />
*(21:33) <teamcoltra>Zacqary because you can easily not participate and no one notices vs here where you get a big X next to your state <br />
*(21:33) <Sacha>itspara it was a reaction to caleb saying 'mailing lists'<br />
*(21:33) <Sacha>practically instinct no to go NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO<br />
*(21:33) <Zacqary>As opposed to logging on just for the sake of being here and then zoning out and not participating in the discussion.<br />
*(21:34) <Sacha>zacqary exactly<br />
*(21:34) <teamcoltra>I personally prefer mailing lists, purely because mailing lists come to me vs me going to a forum<br />
*(21:34) <Zacqary>I've done that some nights honestly.<br />
*(21:34) <Zacqary>Simply because I had nothing to say.<br />
*(21:34) <Sacha>all the pnc needs to do is vote and discuss<br />
*(21:34) <CalebL[laptop]>teamcoltra: there's also RSS/Atom for the forum<br />
*(21:34) <Sacha>we can set aside one day like wednesday and for 24 hours the pnc can vote on it<br />
*(21:34) <Zacqary>It can be a forum that emails you.<br />
*(21:35) <Sacha>forums are perfect for discussion, my only issue is voting<br />
*(21:35) <CalebL[laptop]>and yes, a forum that emails you is what the IT committee's idea is for merging the mailing lists to the forum<br />
*(21:35) <mildbeard>Here is the doodle poll<br />
*(21:35) <Zacqary>Voting can be done asynchronously too. Just set a 24 hour voting period.<br />
*(21:35) <mildbeard>http://doodle.com/z2ytq3br86qf5vhx<br />
*(21:36) <teamcoltra>And just a note to people don't look at the date, just the days<br />
*(21:36) <OrionSteele>i think we should use forums to discuss agenda items and be able to identify things we need to decide about. It would be available all the time and if we work to keep it as an active space it would work well. This would free up time to schedule bi-weekly or monthly meetings to vote on the stuff discussed in the forums<br />
*(21:36) <teamcoltra>and your voting for a time the works best fory ou on that, does not negate us having async meetings<br />
*(21:36) <OrionSteele>the problem with mailing lists for me is that it comes to my mailbox and then gets drowned by all sorts of other stuff and it is very hard for me to keep an organized record of what happens via the mailing list<br />
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*(21:37) <Sacha>good idea orion<br />
*(21:37) <Sacha>i agree with travis's most recent point<br />
*(21:37) <teamcoltra>to vote on a time? <br />
*(21:37) <Sacha>yes<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>should we move discussion of the specifics of asynchronous meetings to the sexy new forums?<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>Dey sexy.<br />
*(21:38) <teamcoltra>Maybe if we do async text meetings, we can do voice meetings every other week?<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>why do voice<br />
*(21:38) <teamcoltra>I really think us all touching base with each other is a good thing, and I honestly prefer voice to IRC any day of the week<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>I do not see what is so good about it<br />
*(21:38) <teamcoltra>because it's personable Sacha <br />
*(21:39) <OrionSteele>i like voice meetings.<br />
*(21:39) <teamcoltra>it's also much faster<br />
*(21:39) <Sacha>i find it irritating but if I am a minority I can suck it up<br />
*(21:39) <MrSquared>i also like voice meetings<br />
*(21:39) <CalebL[laptop]>Only people that it wouldn't work for, is those with satellite internet<br />
*(21:39) <CalebL[laptop]>But I don't think that's a problem with anyone here<br />
*(21:39) <teamcoltra>Our last voice meeting *(while it was short due to technical problems on my end) was very successful<br />
*(21:40) <Zacqary>Voice meetings are certainly easier for me to keep track of, personally.<br />
*(21:40) <MrSquared>we can mail some cans and string to people with that<br />
*(21:40) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] I used to play XBL in rural alaska on a sat conection<br />
*(21:40) <Zacqary>But I don't think I could do it every week.<br />
*(21:40) <itspara>was that the first one travis? or have there been more?<br />
*(21:40) <teamcoltra>Not every week. It also would be far less formal<br />
*(21:40) <CalebL[laptop]>Hopefully WebRTC will get established in web browsers; because then we could have it from a web browser, and have options for requesting to speak, etc<br />
*(21:40) <teamcoltra>It would be us just talking about our ideas, desires, and such.<br />
*(21:41) <teamcoltra>itspara?<br />
*(21:41) <teamcoltra>Oh yeah, that would be the first and last one<br />
*(21:41) <CalebL[laptop]>Voice meetings may be more difficult to keep records of<br />
*(21:41) <teamcoltra>Yeah CalebL[laptop], though we can record them<br />
*(21:41) <Rush>No voice meetings<br />
*(21:41) <CalebL[laptop]>Considering that we can automate the process in IRC, with an IRC bot<br />
*(21:42) <itspara>we can record them, and someone can type notes as we go<br />
*(21:42) <mildbeard>IRC and forums are good in terms of an audit trail.<br />
*(21:42) <teamcoltra>mumble has built in recording functions<br />
*(21:42) <itspara>if theres any voting we can use a third party tool<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>We should discuss this in the forums<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>so we are not here until midnight discussing specifics~<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>yay sexy new forums!<br />
*(21:43) <teamcoltra>The idea here is that we don't do weekly IRC meetings, we do async meetings on the forums, and then every other week we have a voice conversation using mumble or something<br />
*(21:43) <teamcoltra>the voice meetings would be for touching base, and not be mandatory<br />
*(21:43) <teamcoltra>but would be recorded and open for public record<br />
*(21:43) <itspara>Informal PNC meetings<br />
*(21:43) <CalebL[laptop]>We'd need to revise our Constitution a bit then<br />
*(21:43) <OrionSteele>can someone post link to fourms?<br />
*(21:43) <itspara>http://pirate-party.us/forum<br />
*(21:44) <teamcoltra>http://uspirates.org/forum/<br />
*(21:44) <OrionSteele>thanks<br />
*(21:44) <Rab_K>if not almost mandatory will decline<br />
*(21:45) <teamcoltra>I think the voice meetings would need to be optional.. but those who never show up might get brow beat, and miss out on valuable discussion<br />
*(21:45) <Sacha>brow beat?<br />
*(21:45) <CalebL[laptop]>So then how do we evaluate a state rep's perform of participating in 'async meetings'?<br />
*(21:46) <CalebL[laptop]>performance*<br />
*(21:46) <teamcoltra>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/browbeat<br />
*(21:46) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] that was my one concern. We will just keep track of their voting<br />
*(21:46) <Sacha>I know what the hell it means, I mean in this context<br />
*(21:47) <mildbeard>lmao<br />
*(21:47) <Sacha>What is your actual concern in the framework of a problem rather than an abstract acknowledgement<br />
*(21:48) <teamcoltra>Okay can we do this in parts so we can move on, as it was said if we try to look at the big picture we will get stuck talking about this all night. First step of just changing our weekly meeting to byweekly meetings. Would any state like to make that into a motion?<br />
*(21:48) <mildbeard>One idea is we can try a bunch of different things and stick only with the ones that work, rather than getting too hung up on objections that may never be an issue.<br />
*(21:48) <teamcoltra>*(since I can't make motions)<br />
*(21:48) <Zacqary>Motion to switch to biweekly meetings<br />
*(21:49) <OrionSteele>second<br />
*(21:49) <mildbeard>biweekly meaning every other week, not twice a week, correct?<br />
*(21:49) <OrionSteele>correct<br />
*(21:49) <Zacqary>Yes<br />
*(21:49) <teamcoltra>mildbeard yes<br />
*(21:49) <Rush>second<br />
*(21:49) <mildbeard>whew<br />
*(21:49) <teamcoltra>Okay so conversation right now is on moving to biweekly meetings. We can discuss further issues later, but so we can be productive is there anyone against having meetings biweekly<br />
*(21:50) <mildbeard>I think it's a great idea, as long as members can make a commitment to actually attend those meetings.<br />
*(21:50) <Sacha>I am against voting on it right now<br />
*(21:50) <Sacha>I think we are running into action<br />
*(21:50) <Sacha>without accurately thinking about what the problems are with the system we have now<br />
*(21:50) <Sacha>it isn't that "we have nothing to talk about"<br />
*(21:51) <Sacha>is a problem which would easily be solved<br />
*(21:51) <mildbeard>No, it's that we have nobody to do the talking.<br />
*(21:51) <CalebL[laptop]>Weekly meetings are sufficient; I don't see why we're spreading it out to biweekly because of meetings being too long..<br />
*(21:51) <Sacha>Will bi-weekly meetings fix that?<br />
*(21:51) <mildbeard>It could go either way.<br />
*(21:51) <teamcoltra>I think we will have more energy and also encourage people to do more of the talking outside of meetings<br />
*(21:51) <Sacha>I agree with Caleb, I think our issues are bigger than just bi-weekly meetings can fix<br />
*(21:52) <CalebL[laptop]>and it'll slow the process of the PNC even further<br />
*(21:52) <OrionSteele>i'd be willing to bet bi-weekly meetings are just as long as the meetings we are having right now, and it would free up some time in the off weeks for us to focus on local projects we have going on<br />
*(21:52) <teamcoltra>Realistically these meetings shouldn't have much discussion. You shouldh ave had the discussion with your state parties and come to hte meetings ready to vote<br />
*(21:52) <mildbeard>It cuts in half our opportunities to get a quorum. It would only help if people actually show up to the biweekly meetings.<br />
*(21:52) <Sacha>Teamcoltra Based on what? What logical train of thought leads you to that conclusion?<br />
*(21:52) <Sacha>orionsteele I agree that it would give us more personal time<br />
*(21:52) <CalebL[laptop]>And we now have the resource of the forum to debate some things in forums, so that meetings aren't as long, so that IRC meetings can run more smoothly<br />
*(21:52) <Sacha>Mildbeard and actively participate,active partipation is an issue<br />
*(21:52) <mildbeard>sacha good point.<br />
*(21:53) <Sacha>also keep in mind that Rab_K suggested this because he cannot make these meetings and times<br />
*(21:53) <teamcoltra>Then he *(and everyone) should fill out the poll http://doodle.com/z2ytq3br86qf5vhx#table<br />
*(21:53) <Sacha>this does nothing to solve the issue of having a mode of communication that cuts interested people out<br />
*(21:53) <teamcoltra>and tell us when does work<br />
*(21:53) <teamcoltra>Because right now the poll is saying Wednesday but moving it to earlier Wed<br />
*(21:54) <Sacha>Teamcoltra, thank you for posting that link could you please add it to the header in here and to the uspp<br />
*(21:54) <Sacha>I will put it in the forums if you would rather not<br />
*(21:54) <Sacha>That solves one problem<br />
*(21:54) <Rab_K>*(i don't expect everyone to accomodate me btw, although it would be neat to be involved in pnc mtg)<br />
*(21:54) <OrionSteele>well to be fair they aren't exactly easy for us to make every week either. We've had trouble the last month because we have meetings on monday, our video show on thursday, PNC meetings wednesday and we travel on the weekends so that's the reason i'm in favor of it. <br />
*(21:55) <OrionSteele>as we get bigger and coordinate with regional parts of CAPP it will be harder bc we have to hold meetings with them too<br />
*(21:55) <Sacha>Rab_K Everyone in here deserves to be accomodated equally so please don't worry about that imo<br />
*(21:55) <OrionSteele>and none of that includes meeting with people who aren't members of PP to try to get them to become involved<br />
*(21:55) <Sacha>Orionsteele I understand that but I think that your's is a special case<br />
*(21:55) <teamcoltra>Especially Idaho. :P<br />
*(21:55) <Sacha>I think that asynchronous meetings would also solve your issue<br />
*(21:55) <Rab_K>most Tuesdays I coud find a way<br />
*(21:56) <teamcoltra>Sacha this wouldn't negate having asynchronous meetings<br />
*(21:56) <CalebL[laptop]>We need to have some form of predictable voting times however<br />
*(21:56) <Sacha>Teamcoltra that is beside my point. My original point is that we should 1. Identify the issue<br />
*(21:56) <teamcoltra>this is just step one for us to agree that us all coming together and meeting at once should happen less frequently. We can still make bylaws or whatnot to have async meetings too<br />
*(21:56) <CalebL[laptop]>but I'm getting off topic<br />
*(21:56) <Sacha>2. Identify an action that would solve the issue<br />
*(21:57) <OrionSteele>thats true...i guess if i strip away our circumstances in our state my biggest problem with the PNC meetings is the inefficiency of this format. it takes so long to make a motion and vote on something that we are here for a long time and don't decide much, i agree that this is the larger problem and we need to be able to streamline things<br />
*(21:57) <Sacha>Orionsteele Exactly and I think that is a huge issue<br />
*(21:57) <Sacha>Not to sound like a broken record but we should use<br />
*(21:57) <Sacha>the new sexy forums to discuss this at length<br />
*(21:57) <Sacha>and give something that is so completely important to every member of uspp, all due consideration<br />
*(21:57) <Sacha>and not rush a vote<br />
*(21:58) <Sacha>just to move things along<br />
*(21:58) <teamcoltra>Exactly Sacha, use the forums, discuss things at length. Then every two weeks, come together hold quick official votes on things -- bobs your uncle<br />
*(21:58) <itspara>"Sexy" new forums could allow a better discussion because of the more steady pace...<br />
*(21:58) <mildbeard>I'm not allowed to post in the forums...<br />
*(21:58) <Sacha>Teamcoltra if after due discussion we come to that conclusion than I am happy<br />
*(21:58) <Sacha>mildbeard did you register?<br />
*(21:58) <Sacha>You have to do that because it is a completely new forum<br />
*(21:59) <teamcoltra>Sacha this /is/ that discussion<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>teamcoltra we do not have time to go through all the details<br />
*(21:59) <Zacqary>Honestly I think the classic bulletin-board style of forum isn't the best method either. Ideally I'd like something that can morph between real-tme and async discussion depending on who's logged in. Kinda like Wave but not as overcomplicated. Only challenge is that I'm not sure such software exists.<br />
*(21:59) <mildbeard>ah, it let me now - just a glitch.<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>we have other things to discuss and this is too important<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>to shove into an hour or even two and rush due to being tired<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>How about this<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>a vote on discussing it now or going to the forums<br />
*(22:00) <Sacha>then we can see how everyone feels and go for it<br />
*(22:00) <Sacha>of course the previous motion would need to be taken back<br />
*(22:00) <Zacqary>Motion to move this discussion to the forums<br />
*(22:00) <teamcoltra>Zacqary<br />
*(22:00) <teamcoltra>you need to revoke your previous motion first<br />
*(22:00) <Zacqary>Blah blah previous motion revoked formality etc etc motion to move this to the forums<br />
*(22:00) <teamcoltra>You can't have to concurrent motions <br />
*(22:01) <Zacqary>God these order rules are byzantine<br />
*(22:01) <Sacha>Zacqary I may have just fallen in loe with you.<br />
*(22:01) <Sacha>love*<br />
*(22:01) <itspara>cant you table a motion and go to another?<br />
*(22:01) <teamcoltra>Yeah, realistically we can't just "revoke" it... we need to vote to table it. Which would be the best vote in this option anyway<br />
*(22:01) <itspara>or am I getting confused with charges in a courtroom?<br />
*(22:01) <teamcoltra>THe reason is so that we can't just move past a motion that the body has moved and seconded<br />
*(22:02) <teamcoltra>it doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to the floor<br />
*(22:02) <Sacha>Omfg starting a discussion in pnc about killing robert's rules<br />
*(22:02) <teamcoltra>Anyway I am going to accept Zacqary's motion as a motion to table this discussion until next week and have it further on the forums<br />
*(22:02) <teamcoltra>does anyone second it?<br />
*(22:03) <mildbeard>second<br />
*(22:03) <teamcoltra>Okay all in favour of tabling this say aye, if you would like to discuss it further say nay<br />
*(22:03) <Zacqary>AYE<br />
*(22:04) <mildbeard>aye<br />
*(22:04) <CalebL[laptop]>aye<br />
*(22:04) <Rush>aye<br />
*(22:04) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(22:04) <itspara>AYE<br />
*(22:04) <teamcoltra>calling the vote<br />
*(22:05) <teamcoltra>Sacha can you please tally<br />
*(22:05) <Sacha>yes, 1 sec<br />
*(22:05) <Sacha>4 aye, 1 at large<br />
*(22:05) <teamcoltra>Okay so then back to reports - the IT Committe is up first CalebL[laptop] <br />
*(22:06) <Zacqary>I think if everyone said aye we can safely assume it passes<br />
*(22:06) <CalebL[laptop]>So, for the IT committee, we've now got the forum live and public.<br />
*(22:06) <mildbeard>yay<br />
*(22:06) <CalebL[laptop]>As well as established the layout for the forum<br />
*(22:06) <CalebL[laptop]>The mailing lists shall later be merged to the forum, once we figure a reasonable means of doing so *(while keeping close to a mailing list format, for the mailing list end)<br />
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*(22:07) <CalebL[laptop]>A new theme is being developed, which closely emulates the feel of the current theme, but with some improvements<br />
*(22:07) <CalebL[laptop]>We're awaiting on Travis for new content<br />
*(22:07) <CalebL[laptop]>Once we have the content and theme, we'll be able to put a new iteration of the website live.<br />
*(22:08) <CalebL[laptop]>We also just today register uspirates.org as an alternate domain, as we've been having problems in regards of who owns the domain and granting access<br />
*(22:09) <CalebL[laptop]>And that's most of it<br />
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*(22:09) <teamcoltra>Sweet<br />
*(22:09) <teamcoltra>Convention Committee<br />
*(22:09) <teamcoltra>who was on the committee outside of the Wisconsin team<br />
*(22:09) <Sacha>What about bylaws committee and officially dissolving it<br />
*(22:10) <Sacha>also deamon but he has been sketchy and busy lately<br />
*(22:10) <teamcoltra>We will get to it, I missed it<br />
*(22:10) <Sacha>Teamcoltra which is why I wanted to remind you ;)<br />
*(22:10) <teamcoltra>But first convention committee? anyone?<br />
*(22:11) <mildbeard>Perhaps we should press ctrl-alt-del on the convention committee and try a do-over?<br />
*(22:11) <CalebL[laptop]>I don't think there's been anyone representing the convention committee for several meetings straight now<br />
*(22:11) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] I remember you were working with them on the website for the convention or something, eh?<br />
*(22:11) <CalebL[laptop]>Not at all; I don't recall such<br />
*(22:11) <teamcoltra>mildbeard yes<br />
*(22:11) <Sacha>I do not recall that either<br />
*(22:12) <teamcoltra>well<br />
*(22:12) <Sacha>What is the purpose of the convention committee?<br />
*(22:12) <mildbeard>Elections<br />
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*(22:12) <Sacha>I personally think it should be the responsibility of the present officers<br />
*(22:12) <teamcoltra>I don't want to do it over. This goes to prove my point about force creating committees. Let's just do this with the PNC itself. I think we can throw together an election<br />
*(22:12) <Sacha>the only third party person that needs to be involved is someone not running<br />
*(22:12) <mildbeard>Why not just schedule nominations for our next meeting and elections for the succeeding meeting?<br />
*(22:12) <Sacha>wat mildbeard said<br />
*(22:12) <teamcoltra>But it would be my suggestion that we talk over the details of how we are going to do the elections and then have something ready by next meeting<br />
*(22:13) <CalebL[laptop]>We need to have infrastructure for voting though<br />
*(22:13) <Sacha>let us use sexy new forums!!<br />
*(22:13) <Sacha>Srsly. The uses are endless people.<br />
*(22:13) <Sacha>Abuse them. Use them. Show them who is boss.<br />
*(22:13) <teamcoltra>I am not going to trust the voting system to forums that none of us have used yet *(no offense to the IT team)<br />
*(22:14) <teamcoltra>err it's not my call, but it's my strong recommendation to not vote using the forums<br />
*(22:14) <Sacha>I mean to discuss how to vote<br />
*(22:14) <itspara>Actually... I believe you can do polling on the forums... unless caleb turned that off<br />
*(22:14) <teamcoltra>oh yeah for that for sure, we should use the hell out of the forums for discussing how to do it<br />
*(22:14) <mildbeard>forum polling wouldn't enforce our voting rules.<br />
*(22:14) <CalebL[laptop]>Polling can be done. I just don't believe in silly little integers in a database that can be easily manipulated with no authenticity.<br />
*(22:14) <teamcoltra>However, I think we can at least open up nominations to be done next week.<br />
*(22:14) <mildbeard>Probably anybody, not just members could vote.<br />
*(22:14) <teamcoltra>That means in the meantime we can figure out how elections will be held<br />
*(22:14) <itspara>It could work... but it may not be the best method *(since we don't want people outside of the pnc voting, and we want to prevent fraud)<br />
*(22:14) <Sacha>I agree with teamcoltra<br />
*(22:15) <CalebL[laptop]>Perhaps we need an election committee? xP<br />
*(22:15) <mildbeard>So should we have a motion to set the deadline for officer nominations as next week's meeting? <br />
*(22:15) <CalebL[laptop]>Just to give people a reason and structure to discuss it<br />
*(22:15) <teamcoltra>I also own the server that the votes would be cast too... and obviously I know I wouldn't tamper with it, but I feel uncomfortable with the thought people might think I could<br />
*(22:15) <teamcoltra>cast to*<br />
*(22:15) <itspara>We could use limesurvey and individually give "survey" access to people by email<br />
*(22:15) <Sacha>I was bold and made a thread about elections just now<br />
*(22:15) <CalebL[laptop]>We also have to figure out who is eligible for voting<br />
*(22:16) <Sacha>Mildbeard I think we should<br />
*(22:16) <teamcoltra>Would someone like to make a motion that in the meantime nominations must be presented to the PNC at next weeks meeting?<br />
*(22:16) <teamcoltra>*(or before by emailing the SAB)<br />
*(22:18) <CalebL[laptop]>Point of Order: do we have quorum?<br />
*(22:18) <Sacha>caleb yes we do<br />
*(22:18) <Sacha>just barely<br />
*(22:18) <mildbeard>I move that nominations be submitted either on SAB or at next week's meeting, and with a deadline of next week's meeting regardless of how they are submitted.<br />
*(22:19) <teamcoltra>second?<br />
*(22:19) <Zacqary>Secodn<br />
*(22:19) <Zacqary>SECOND<br />
*(22:19) <Zacqary>ff<br />
*(22:19) <teamcoltra>Anyone against this?<br />
*(22:19) <OrionSteele>nope<br />
*(22:19) <MrSquared>nope<br />
*(22:19) <CalebL[laptop]>Honestly. People. Pay attention to the screen.<br />
*(22:20) <teamcoltra>Okay well then let's just vote <br />
*(22:20) <Zacqary>Hence the problem with this format of meeting, Caleb.<br />
*(22:20) <CalebL[laptop]>We could go so much faster if everyone wasn't multitasking<br />
*(22:20) <teamcoltra>all in favour<br />
*(22:20) <CalebL[laptop]>aye<br />
*(22:20) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(22:20) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(22:20) <Zacqary>Aye<br />
*(22:20) <mildbeard>aye<br />
*(22:21) <teamcoltra>Called<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>4 for, .5 at large for<br />
*(22:21) <teamcoltra>It looks like it passed but Sacha makes the final tally<br />
*(22:21) <teamcoltra>Okay next<br />
*(22:21) <teamcoltra>Sacha the bylaw committee was dissolved, yes?<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>we should also vote about dissolving convention committee<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>Teamcoltra, do we have automatic dissolution?<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>or do we need to vote on it?<br />
*(22:22) <Sacha>1 sec<br />
*(22:22) <Sacha>TO THE BYLAWS<br />
*(22:22) <mildbeard>I think we need a motion...<br />
*(22:22) <Zacqary>Motion to dissolve the bylaws committee<br />
*(22:22) <Zacqary>Aye<br />
*(22:22) <Zacqary>Oh wait we're not voting yet<br />
*(22:22) <Zacqary>Well aye<br />
*(22:22) <Sacha>needs a vote to dissolve<br />
*(22:23) <teamcoltra>anyone second Zacqary ?<br />
*(22:23) <CalebL[laptop]>Can I second a motion, despite being at-large?<br />
*(22:23) <OrionSteele>second<br />
*(22:23) <Zacqary>I'm going to travel forward in time to when someone seconds it and vote aye<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>Zacqary I will make an effort to move faster, but we also need to follow some basic structure<br />
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*(22:25) <teamcoltra>All in favour of dissolution?<br />
*(22:25) <CalebL[laptop]>Aye<br />
*(22:25) <Zacqary>Aye<br />
*(22:25) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(22:25) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(22:25) <mildbeard>aye<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>Called<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>It passes Sacha can verify<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>next<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>Creation of Content Committee<br />
*(22:25) <teamcoltra>Whose motion is this?<br />
*(22:25) <CalebL[laptop]>No idea<br />
*(22:25) <CalebL[laptop]>Sacha, I assume<br />
*(22:25) <mildbeard>Sounds like mine.<br />
*(22:26) <teamcoltra>mildbeard go ahead<br />
*(22:26) <mildbeard>the idea was to have a specific committee that would be responsible for coordinating anyone who wants to provide content to the site, and for signing off on content in the event that there is any doubt if it is appropriate. <br />
*(22:27) <teamcoltra>Anyone want to second the motion of creating a content committee *(this just opens up debate, not lead to a vote)<br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>My idea is that this would be a "lean and mean" thing and accountable to the PNC if anyone thought it wasn't going well.<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>no can we talk about it first<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>I had ideas<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>oh and can at large speak<br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>Move to create a content committee, accountable to the PNC and responsible for providing and approving content submitted to the site. <br />
*(22:27) <CalebL[laptop]>Discussion comes after a second<br />
*(22:28) <CalebL[laptop]>and I know I can speak, but I'm saying if I can second a motion or not<br />
*(22:28) <Zacqary>Second<br />
*(22:29) <CalebL[laptop]>Any discussion?<br />
*(22:29) <teamcoltra>I dislike the idea of creating this committee<br />
*(22:29) <Sacha>Yeah, I talked about in the wiki<br />
*(22:29) <teamcoltra>just like I was against creating a convention committee. <br />
*(22:29) <teamcoltra>When you don't let committees form organically they never work<br />
*(22:29) <Sacha>Teamcoltra my guess is be bold and you will use convention committee as an example<br />
*(22:29) <CalebL[laptop]>The role of content should be of whom is responsible of the public image of the party *(Chair, I believe)<br />
*(22:29) <Sacha>I disagree<br />
*(22:29) <teamcoltra>Sacha what committee HAS worked?<br />
*(22:30) <teamcoltra>Bylaws committee failed<br />
*(22:30) <CalebL[laptop]>If people have suggestions for content, then they can shove it to Travis and get it approved<br />
*(22:30) <teamcoltra>Constitional Committee failed<br />
*(22:30) <CalebL[laptop]>And done<br />
*(22:30) <mildbeard>the IT committee has worked.<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>Teamcoltra The committee that made this, the bylaws committee, the constitution committee, the bylaws committee<br />
*(22:30) <teamcoltra>the Convention Committee failed<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>it depends on the people<br />
*(22:30) <mildbeard>The constitutional committee did not fail. <br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>not how it is created<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>Mildbeard all of those were a success<br />
*(22:30) <CalebL[laptop]>Argument of the bylaws committee is that it wasn't really a formal committee. Just to people talking over IM likely.<br />
*(22:30) <teamcoltra>mildbeard that's fair, but it did pander off there for a good few weeks<br />
*(22:30) <CalebL[laptop]>two people8<br />
*(22:30) <CalebL[laptop]>*<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>Caleb bullshit, it was a committee<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>and we had four people<br />
*(22:31) <CalebL[laptop]>IRC channel, mailing list, formal meetings?<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>Caleb all of the above<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>formal meetings were called up in IRC when I pulled people into #uspp-bylaws<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>or #bylaws<br />
*(22:32) <Zacqary>Only a mailing list is necessary or a functioning committee, as I proved with the Constitution Committee.<br />
*(22:32) <Zacqary>Yeah, I screwed up with the bylaws because my personal life exploded around that time.<br />
*(22:32) <teamcoltra>I am not against having this committee. I am just asking that the people who want to be in this committee just come together and start making content for the website.<br />
*(22:32) <Zacqary>But I will be damned if formal meetings are a requirement for getting anything done.<br />
*(22:32) <Zacqary>I mean, look at this meeting.<br />
*(22:32) <Sacha>Teamcoltra that was my idea because I am already doing that.<br />
*(22:32) <Sacha>But you had to interrupt me.<br />
*(22:32) <teamcoltra>Sacha then perfect the committee isn't needed <br />
*(22:33) <teamcoltra>atleast not officially<br />
*(22:33) <CalebL[laptop]>But yes, teamcoltra makes a good point. Committees should already be doing their work, in order to prove their purpose and activeness<br />
*(22:33) <mildbeard>I'm personally volunteering to act as chair of the content committee.<br />
*(22:33) <Zacqary>It's IRC. There's no such thing as an interruption.<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>Zacqary I know, I was just pointing out that Travis didn't give anyone a chance to speak up about it<br />
*(22:33) <CalebL[laptop]>And no, what I listed are not required. It's just things that show whether something is structured or not<br />
*(22:34) <Sacha>Teamcoltra I talked to kusi abot putting this on the agenda in uspp sometime because it is good to say this committee will exist<br />
*(22:34) <Sacha>flock to it my brothers<br />
*(22:34) <Sacha>and the biggest reason why I want it<br />
*(22:34) <Zacqary>Sometimes structure is overrated.<br />
*(22:34) <teamcoltra>mildbeard so my suggestion stands, and I say this with respect because I know you do a lot of shit and do get shit done: get a group of people together and start working on things and show this board that the content committee should be a fully recognized part of this board<br />
*(22:34) <Zacqary>Adhocracy works.<br />
*(22:34) <Sacha>is so that caleb will stop asking you to do it<br />
*(22:34) <CalebL[laptop]>Then why are people bickering over having a special shiny label of being considered a committee with no special status? xP<br />
*(22:35) <Zacqary>I know, right?<br />
*(22:35) <Sacha>Caleb we're not<br />
*(22:35) <mildbeard>teamcoltra - in that case I'm going to start telling people that they need to go through the content committee if they want to add anything to the site. Does anyone here object to that?<br />
*(22:35) <teamcoltra>Yes<br />
*(22:35) <Sacha>what I am bickering about is that I do not want to do a whole bunch of work, and then have the PNC come in and go JK NEW COMMITTEE LISTEN TO THEM<br />
*(22:35) <Zacqary>As chair of the Constitution Committee I hereby apologize for allowing anything about committees to go in that damn thing.<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>Zacqary Calm down. I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about.<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>The only use for a committee isn't to have a shiny label<br />
*(22:36) <CalebL[laptop]>So then what about "BE BOLD" and just doing the work?<br />
*(22:36) <teamcoltra>The idea is that a single body should not just be god of the content... not yet at least. That's my point, just make content and send it to me / kusi or the PNC and we will approve it for now, just like anyone can do<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>and to dismiss people's concerns about structure because you are unconcerned is dismissive<br />
*(22:36) <CalebL[laptop]>Rather than complaining over a label?<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>What you are asking for<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>is for people to willingly take on the short stick<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>so the PNC doesn't have to<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>1. Do all the work<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>with 2. No guarantee that it will even be accepted<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>3. If people question your authority you have fucking none<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>4. No oversight and no guarantee that your ideas will be accepted<br />
*(22:37) <Sacha>the PNC controls the website officially<br />
*(22:37) <CalebL[laptop]>This isn't touchy-feeling camp where we approve your content because we feel bad for you.<br />
*(22:38) <CalebL[laptop]>It's about who generates sufficient content period<br />
*(22:38) <CalebL[laptop]>If people have issues with the Chair's decisions, then get a new chair<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>that is the stupidest thing I have heard of<br />
*(22:38) <CalebL[laptop]>rather than electing someone that doesn't represent you<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>A leader is the final word<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>that doesn't mean don't speak<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>shut u<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>up*<br />
*(22:39) <Sacha>and if you disagree<br />
*(22:39) <mildbeard>I'm going to withdraw my motion. I'm satisfied with the general idea that we have basic approval to have a content committee on an ad-hoc basis without needing to be formally appointed by the PNC. <br />
*(22:39) <Zacqary>Thank you. Srsly people just do stuff.<br />
*(22:39) <Sacha>I hope you have fun with that<br />
*(22:40) <Zacqary>I'm sure they will.<br />
*(22:40) <CalebL[laptop]>Point of Order: can there be two at-larges for a state? I have another from my state that may want to speak at times<br />
*(22:40) <teamcoltra>What I am going to do for a happy middle ground, is to extend my authority to approve content for the website to mildbeard *(as well as Zacqary, MrSquared, Rush, and OrionSteele) as individuals. This way there is no bottle neck, if any of those people give your content the thumbs up, it can go on the website.<br />
*(22:40) <teamcoltra>they have all been active members of the party and I trust their judgement fully<br />
*(22:40) <OrionSteele>ok<br />
*(22:41) <Zacqary>Well thank you.<br />
*(22:41) <Zacqary>I appreciate that.<br />
*(22:41) <teamcoltra>Okay so now next topic?<br />
*(22:41) <CalebL[laptop]>So shall they pester the IT committee folk *(myself) to make the content changes, or should access be granted?<br />
*(22:41) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] give them all access<br />
*(22:42) <CalebL[laptop]>Noted<br />
*(22:42) * teamcoltra let's them eat cake<br />
*(22:42) <teamcoltra>;)<br />
*(22:42) <CalebL[laptop]>So, any response to my prompt? xP<br />
*(22:42) <CalebL[laptop]>regarding: <CalebL[laptop]> Point of Order: can there be two at-larges for a state? I have another from my state that may want to speak at times<br />
*(22:42) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] we have never really gotten into this although I do see it as an issue<br />
*(22:43) <mildbeard>You can have an at-large representative and an alternate. the alternate only does anything if the primary rep is not present.<br />
*(22:43) <teamcoltra>if you guys can work together, then I would suggest that you guys just take turns. <br />
*(22:43) <teamcoltra>If you guys are in conflict I think the PNC would have to decide<br />
*(22:43) <Sacha>teamcoltra it is in the constitution or the bylaws that you can't<br />
*(22:43) <Sacha>one state one voice unless you are an officer<br />
*(22:43) <CalebL[laptop]>And if not, can a person without any status speak?<br />
*(22:44) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] when called upon just like any at-large *(or at least that's how I would enforce it without reading the rules)<br />
*(22:44) <teamcoltra>but one state, one vote thats the key part here.<br />
*(22:44) <CalebL[laptop]>Because I'm not sure if efk has anything to add. Otherwise proceed<br />
*(22:44) <teamcoltra>Also we try to make sure that one state isn't overwhelming the debate... but again I would just have to play that by ear<br />
*(22:44) <efk>Nothing at this time.<br />
*(22:45) <CalebL[laptop]>Understood<br />
*(22:45) <teamcoltra>Okay next topic: Amending the Constitution for IT Standards<br />
*(22:45) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] brought this up *(though remember it will need a state to make the motion if we want it)<br />
*(22:45) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] go ahead<br />
*(22:45) <CalebL[laptop]>actually I didn't bring it up in this verbage. xP<br />
*(22:46) <CalebL[laptop]>I was just emphasizing that I was envisioning for the IT committee to form IT standards, and have the PNC vote on it, just like any other motion.<br />
*(22:46) <teamcoltra>Your suggestions require a constitional amendment to add your requirements to the state eligibility requirements<br />
*(22:46) <CalebL[laptop]>This is a good point<br />
*(22:46) <Sacha>Was it even decided if they will be requirements or suggestions<br />
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*(22:46) <Sacha>a suggestion will not being in the state membership requirements<br />
*(22:47) <CalebL[laptop]>I think there should be requirements, but that authority should be rarely used<br />
*(22:47) <Sacha>why should there be requirements<br />
*(22:47) <mildbeard>What specific rules would you suggest?<br />
*(22:47) <CalebL[laptop]>For proper handling of personal information<br />
*(22:48) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] could you lay it out as exactly how you would like it to be voted on?<br />
*(22:48) <CalebL[laptop]>Such as for recording private information for financial contributions, etc<br />
*(22:49) <mildbeard>Well, we have a core value already about personal privacy. And no state can be admitted that doesn't adhere to that core value. Also, a lot of that comes under the heading of election laws. So I'm wondering what aspects of this aren't already covered? <br />
*(22:49) <CalebL[laptop]>Well, I envision that the IT committee would simply be for forming the standards, there doesn't necessarily need to be oversight within the committee<br />
*(22:50) <CalebL[laptop]>mildbeard: specific approved encryption algorithms, code security audits, etc<br />
*(22:50) <CalebL[laptop]>I think election laws are fairly vague, such as being "oh, just make sure it's 'secure'" and nothing more<br />
*(22:51) <mildbeard>Hmm.<br />
*(22:51) <CalebL[laptop]>while a person could be using null encryption and MD4 hashing. xP<br />
*(22:51) <Sacha>Unless the IT group is willing<br />
*(22:51) <Sacha>to go in there and do it for every single state<br />
*(22:51) <Sacha>I think it is unfair to do so<br />
*(22:52) <CalebL[laptop]>Code audits would be for things that collect private information<br />
*(22:52) <CalebL[laptop]>And most of the software tools are used the same across states<br />
*(22:52) <Rab>the states can be helped by the best minds available via uspp<br />
*(22:52) <Sacha>If you will personally guarantee that you will help every single state party and potential party that struggles with it to be up to code<br />
*(22:52) <Sacha>Then I am fine with it<br />
*(22:52) <CalebL[laptop]>So it's a matter of auditing the choices, as well as any custom made solutions<br />
*(22:53) <mildbeard>This is a very valid point, but I am not sure that it is the kind of thing that we should be putting in the Constitution. I'd be much more comfortable having it in the bylaws. <br />
*(22:53) <Sacha>Rab that isn't a guarantee, I dislike vague assumptions that help will be provided by vague people<br />
*(22:53) <CalebL[laptop]>But yes, I forgot to emphasize: what I'm speaking of is things that would be of requirement status; while there would still be some things that are recommendations as well<br />
*(22:53) <Rab>good point Sacha<br />
*(22:53) <Sacha>Mildbeard I personally feel that it was be prohibitive to people starting parties when they do not have backend knowledge of websites<br />
*(22:54) <CalebL[laptop]>There shouldn't be any wording that's specific to the IT committee in the Constitution, I believe<br />
*(22:54) <mildbeard>sacha that's also a valid concern.<br />
*(22:54) <CalebL[laptop]>But we'll very likely be proving that infrastructure managed for the states<br />
*(22:54) <CalebL[laptop]>providing*<br />
*(22:54) <CalebL[laptop]>of hosting and so on<br />
*(22:54) <Sacha>Very likely is a could in the sky<br />
*(22:54) <Sacha>it leaves the option of failure<br />
*(22:55) <CalebL[laptop]>and if you can't securely handle information, you shouldn't be collecting it<br />
*(22:55) <Sacha>That is a personal opinion which should not be a requirement of becoming a state party<br />
*(22:55) <teamcoltra>Sacha, seriously?<br />
*(22:55) <Sacha>Yeah, seriously<br />
*(22:55) <mildbeard>We should take this seriously. We are supposed to be THE party of privacy online. We definitely should be trying to act in a way that would be a model for others to emulate. <br />
*(22:55) <Sacha>I think we should<br />
*(22:55) <Sacha>which should mean give people the ability to do it, help them to do it<br />
*(22:56) <Sacha>Don't expect them to do it and then punish them if they do not know how<br />
*(22:56) <itspara>privacy everywhere, not just online<br />
*(22:56) <teamcoltra>Sacha if you don't know how, then don't collect the information<br />
*(22:56) <itspara>but yeah<br />
*(22:56) <Sacha>I'm highly in favor of suggestions<br />
*(22:56) <teamcoltra>If you don't know how, reach out to someone who will help you<br />
*(22:56) <Sacha>Teamcoltra would not a registration form be a collection of information?<br />
*(22:56) <Sacha>teamcoltra And if no one answers?<br />
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*(22:57) <Sacha>No one is required to answer or help.<br />
*(22:57) <CalebL[laptop]>Because honestly, next thing someone will be doing is using a Google Docs form for collecting donations with storing credit card numbers and CVCs *(NEVER TO BE STORED) in plaintext<br />
*(22:57) <CalebL[laptop]>and that would be a massive liability<br />
*(22:57) <Sacha>Not a liability to the PNC caleb<br />
*(22:57) <Sacha>only to themselves<br />
*(22:57) <mildbeard>we need to have an approach that splits the difference: that guarantees that we aren't mishandling anyone's private information, while at the same time not being an obstacle to growing the party into new states. <br />
*(22:57) <CalebL[laptop]>A liability to our public image as a whole<br />
*(22:57) <Zacqary>It's a liability to the entire notion of the Pirate Party<br />
*(22:57) <mildbeard>Sacha yes it's a liability to the PNC.<br />
*(22:57) <Rab>never underestimate the power of cluelessness<br />
*(22:57) <teamcoltra>Of course, we do need to have different levels of security. If a person wants to create a form to collect name, zipcode, email address that shouldn't be forced to be encrypted or something<br />
*(22:58) <Sacha>Caleb ony as long as it takes each state to come out and say we're fine and here is what we are doing<br />
*(22:58) <Sacha>Like I said<br />
*(22:58) <Sacha>if you are not providing a guaranteed resource<br />
*(22:58) <Sacha>that will help people come into line with your requirements<br />
*(22:58) <Sacha>that is simply unfair<br />
*(22:58) <teamcoltra>Sacha then you are going to have to learn on your own, or not do it<br />
*(22:58) <CalebL[laptop]>It's REALLY not that hard to audit them<br />
*(22:58) <Zacqary>So let's guarantee it then. Why do we have a national body at all if we're not going to provide assistance to each other?<br />
*(22:59) <CalebL[laptop]>We don't have to host it for them to audit it; but it makes it dead simple.<br />
*(22:59) <Sacha>teamcoltra Proved my point. I was expecting you to say that.<br />
*(22:59) <teamcoltra>:) I appreciate you expect that I am going to say intelligent things<br />
*(22:59) <Sacha>Teamcoltra Cute. You know exactly what I meant.<br />
*(23:00) <Sacha>I agree with Zacqary<br />
*(23:00) <CalebL[laptop]>But they still have to be accountable to the standards<br />
*(23:00) <mildbeard>This polarization of the argument is pointless and childish.<br />
*(23:00) <Sacha>If it is so easy<br />
*(23:00) <Sacha>then just be a guaranteed resource<br />
*(23:00) <mildbeard>There's no need for it to be one or the other.<br />
*(23:00) <mildbeard>It can be both.<br />
*(23:00) <Sacha>Mildbeard okay, what is your suggestion<br />
*(23:00) <teamcoltra>mildbeard elaborate? <br />
*(23:00) <mildbeard>First, this shouldn't be a constitutional amendment. <br />
*(23:01) <mildbeard>Let's ask the IT committee to come up with an auditing standard and a set of questions that can be asked when a state applies for membership. <br />
*(23:01) <mildbeard>we have flexibility because it's still a majority vote.<br />
*(23:01) <Sacha>mildbeard the requirements for being a membership are in the constitution, it would not make sense to have it elsewhere.<br />
*(23:01) <CalebL[laptop]>It doesn't just end at them becoming a member, that's when they're just forming and have no resources.<br />
*(23:02) <mildbeard>sacha I disagree.<br />
*(23:02) <mildbeard>The PNC has to vote, and we can have questions we ask that aren't in the constitution, and that may influence our votes.<br />
*(23:02) <Sacha>mildbeard fair enough<br />
*(23:03) <mildbeard>calebl[laptop] we should also ask the IT committee to create a set of objective standards for states to follow.<br />
*(23:03) <mildbeard>but we shouldn't impose them retroactively on existing state parties. <br />
*(23:03) <Sacha>and a pledge to provide resources on how to create them<br />
*(23:03) <Sacha>mildbeard disagree<br />
*(23:03) <mildbeard>Let's walk before w efly. <br />
*(23:03) <Sacha>why do old states get a blank state<br />
*(23:03) <teamcoltra>mildbeard - I am not sure about that last part, if security is going to be important, this one should apply to everyone *(and normally I am good on not going retroactive)<br />
*(23:03) <mildbeard>I'm not saying existing states get a blank check.<br />
*(23:04) <teamcoltra>"I am an old party... so I get to store all passwords in plaintext"<br />
*(23:04) <teamcoltra>:D<br />
*(23:04) <mildbeard>However we should proceed incrementally. Don't start as a requirement yet. <br />
*(23:04) <CalebL[laptop]>The PNC represents the states, if a majority of existing states can't meet a standard, and they vote it down, then it's not a standard.<br />
*(23:04) <mildbeard>we will probably learn a lot in the process. <br />
*(23:04) <Sacha>mildbeard why should it be easier for an old party, won't that look worse on our image<br />
*(23:04) <Sacha>since image is the biggest concern voiced<br />
*(23:06) <mildbeard>I'm not saying it should be easier for an old party. The rules should be the same for everyone. Just you need time if you already have a site and you already have written code or implemented stuff. Retrofitting is not an instantateous process. <br />
*(23:06) <CalebL[laptop]>Anyway, as I've stated, standards will be voted in by the PNC. If the standard is too daunting, or if people don't understand it, then all the states shouldn't be sheeple and just vote 'aye'. Simple enough.<br />
*(23:07) <CalebL[laptop]>The IT committee shall have no special status, just simply be for forming these standards and presenting them to the PNC.<br />
*(23:07) <Sacha>Sadly most of the states are sheeple<br />
*(23:07) <mildbeard>We have to balance idealism and realism. Have a strong standard that applies to everyone, but understand that you can't just start kicking out states who are protecting privacy but don't use the same exact standard. <br />
*(23:08) <teamcoltra>Okay what I would like to do is have this tabled, ask the IT Committee to come together on a detailed set of dos and don'ts rulebook they would like to see implemented and we will go from there<br />
*(23:08) <teamcoltra>does that sound good?<br />
*(23:08) <mildbeard>Our first concern should be to grow the party. <br />
*(23:08) <CalebL[laptop]>Good enough<br />
*(23:08) <mildbeard>yes<br />
*(23:08) <Sacha>I agree with that mildbeard which is why i hate this so much<br />
*(23:08) <Zacqary>Sacha when I vote sheepleishly it's because I want the meeting to fucking end. That's a problem with the meeting format, not apathy.<br />
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*(23:08) <CalebL[laptop]>That's a problem with representation. :P<br />
*(23:08) <Sacha>Zacqay still apathy<br />
*(23:08) <CalebL[laptop]>If you're not patient, you shouldn't be a rep<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>caleb disagree<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>way disagree<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>teamcoltra I agree to what you said<br />
*(23:09) <Zacqary>Okay fine bye guys<br />
*(23:09) <CalebL[laptop]>I was at a meeting from 6am to 1am the next day in the same meeting, that's representation<br />
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*(23:09) <teamcoltra>QuazarGuy are you really here?<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>pad is private<br />
*(23:09) <teamcoltra>sweet <br />
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*(23:09) <teamcoltra>right on time<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>what's up?<br />
*(23:09) <teamcoltra>https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-10-17-12<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>Jeff Talada, WA<br />
*(23:10) <teamcoltra>that shouldn't be private<br />
*(23:10) <Sacha>caleb a narrow view of representation, but feel free to continue to disregard people's contributions based on your own subjective definition<br />
*(23:10) <teamcoltra>I didn't set it so I don't know but other people are in it<br />
*(23:10) <itspara>i do hope you got breaks caleb<br />
*(23:10) <Sacha>hi jeff<br />
*(23:10) <QuazarGuy>works now<br />
*(23:10) <CalebL[laptop]>itspara: barely. Almost missed a vote by running off to get food, when a candidate was giving a speech<br />
*(23:11) <teamcoltra>Okay since we cannot have a vote on the last issue because it would not reach quorum we are just going to automatically table it<br />
*(23:11) <CalebL[laptop]>It was a Congressional District convention for official nomination of candidates<br />
*(23:11) <teamcoltra>*(there are only 3 people who saw the conversation who can vote to quorum, since QuazarGuy wasn't there)<br />
*(23:11) <teamcoltra>next topic *PNC State Rep Absence<br />
*(23:11) <Sacha>we hae quorum<br />
*(23:11) <Sacha>ohh nvm<br />
*(23:12) <teamcoltra>Whose agenda item is this?<br />
*(23:12) <CalebL[laptop]>Mine<br />
*(23:12) <CalebL[laptop]>So yes, if we have things in the Constitution, we should be enforcing them accordingly. Oklahoma has been probationary for 12 meetings now<br />
*(23:12) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] - technically your motions would go into AOB but it's the last item anyway<br />
*(23:13) <CalebL[laptop]>You mentioned to have it as an official point instead of AOB, anyway<br />
*(23:13) <CalebL[laptop]>Here's the meeting attendance: https://docs.google.com/a/techsanity.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgWyxuBB8Bi-dC1TMFVTQnpMNFpIc0tnNmRtamlpZXc#gid=0<br />
*(23:13) <Sacha>caleb at-large is not allowed to put things as agenda<br />
*(23:13) <teamcoltra>:P We will discuss it later, just go on<br />
*(23:14) <CalebL[laptop]><CalebL[laptop]> Travis; shall I add my point about PNC State Rep Absence to AOB?<br />
*(23:14) <CalebL[laptop]><teamcoltra> No make it a full point<br />
*(23:14) <teamcoltra>*(note that CalebL[laptop]'s list is in reverse chronological <br />
*(23:14) <CalebL[laptop]>Correct<br />
*(23:14) <Sacha>caleb, you are at large, we are not allowed to discuss it w/o it being in aoB or with permission<br />
*(23:14) <teamcoltra>CalebL[laptop] again, I am saying we will discuss it later. I am sure I did, but I was being stupid but now isn't the time to discuss where it goes)<br />
*(23:14) <CalebL[laptop]>It's been well over a month, as is the cutoff for probationary status, regarding Oklahoma<br />
*(23:15) <teamcoltra>Sacha, CalebL[laptop], everyone we ware not discussing if it should be discussed, we are just dicussing the point<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>teamcoltra okay<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>Then we shouldn't discuss it at another meeting<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>ok quit the PNC and hasn't come back<br />
*(23:15) <CalebL[laptop]>Alternately, I was going to be an asshat and call for California to be put to probationary status, for being absent for many meetings<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>bro is done<br />
*(23:16) <CalebL[laptop]>and Washington is liable as well<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>Caleb do you still want to?<br />
*(23:16) <teamcoltra>I don't think you are being a jerk for following the rules<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>I would personally rather change to probation status<br />
*(23:16) <teamcoltra>these are not personal attacks<br />
*(23:16) <teamcoltra>these are wakeup calls to the states who are affected<br />
*(23:16) <QuazarGuy>I would like to add, that it is very likely once all bureaucracy is in place meeting will become very rare<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>also wat teamcoltra said as it was true, until the last point<br />
*(23:16) <CalebL[laptop]>And that's why I want these enforced<br />
*(23:16) <mildbeard>I think attendance is important. We want to be careful not to kick out all of our member states thugh. <br />
*(23:17) <Sacha>I do not think attendance is important<br />
*(23:17) <Sacha>what are the major things that the pnc has produced<br />
*(23:17) <mildbeard>We should modify our process to make it more inclusive. <br />
*(23:17) <teamcoltra>I actually think we removed Oklahoma as a member CalebL[laptop] <br />
*(23:17) <Sacha>and who produced them<br />
*(23:17) <Sacha>teamcoltra no we didn't<br />
*(23:17) <teamcoltra>after putting them on probation<br />
*(23:17) <CalebL[laptop]>So if we can't hold meetings do to lack of quorum, and state reps not representing their states, then there certainly are issues<br />
*(23:17) <teamcoltra>because there was big todo about it<br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>calebL the resolution shouldn't be to kick out states<br />
*(23:18) <mildbeard>The argument that the PNC is not important has no weight here unless you are moving that we disband. <br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>Mildbeard I was saying that attendance is not important<br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>unless you want to change it to active participation<br />
*(23:18) <teamcoltra>Here is the thing people forget: When we have a state as a full member, they count towards quorum <br />
*(23:18) <mildbeard>teamcoltra - you're right that's a critical issue. <br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>\<br />
*(23:19) <Sacha>We should just change the procces entirely imo, I do not think it is reflecting who actively participates in the uspp at large<br />
*(23:19) <QuazarGuy>I think there are extenuating circumstances<br />
*(23:19) <teamcoltra>What if we had two more states go inactive? We couldn't legally have meetings<br />
*(23:19) <Rab>if they miss x meetings, they don't count toward quorum<br />
*(23:19) <Sacha>and if our emphasis is participating in the states<br />
*(23:19) <Sacha>then why have that requriement<br />
*(23:20) <CalebL[laptop]>Does probationary states count towards quorum?<br />
*(23:20) <Rab>another solve: change quorum. I was on a board we went to 40% worked fine that year<br />
*(23:20) <QuazarGuy>the meetings every single week on the same day at the same time are a heavy burden<br />
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*(23:20) <Sacha>Caleb Not my knowledge<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>What quazarguy said<br />
*(23:20) <teamcoltra>QuazarGuy I know, we discussed that first thing<br />
*(23:20) <QuazarGuy>oh<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>and they are completely pointless if you do not care about the national level and only want to work on your state<br />
*(23:20) <teamcoltra>we are going to figure out what is best to solve for it and talk about it first thing next week<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>which is what the PNC has said they are supposed to do<br />
*(23:20) <teamcoltra>to give people some time to mull it over *(even though that was my "homework" at last weeks meeting)<br />
*(23:20) <mildbeard>Quazarguy - http://doodle.com/z2ytq3br86qf5vhx<br />
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*(23:21) <Sacha>Why do we have people primarily intereted in state level for whom these national meetings are merely a distraction being the main voting force<br />
*(23:21) <Sacha>the logic isn't there imo<br />
*(23:21) <CalebL[laptop]>I would believe that a rep should be able to arrange an alternate<br />
*(23:21) <CalebL[laptop]>Sacha, it's common practice over all other political parties<br />
*(23:22) <Sacha>CalebL[laptop] Most other third parties are failing to get elected into office in high enough numbers to matter<br />
*(23:22) <Sacha>Following what they do doesn't really make sense to me, but I am contrary<br />
*(23:22) <teamcoltra>Lets keep it on track<br />
*(23:22) <CalebL[laptop]>Oh, and the bipartisan parties have it working for them, amirite?<br />
*(23:23) <QuazarGuy>what's the doodle for? I thought weekly was discussed a problem<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>CalebL they are currently running the country so yeah<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>Quazarguy we are going to discuss bi weekly or monthly meetings in the forums<br />
*(23:23) <mildbeard>QuazarGuy - it's for finding a better time that works for everyone. We've separately discussed making it bi-weekly and using the new PNC forum as a supplement. <br />
*(23:23) <teamcoltra>QuazarGuy even if it was biweekly or whatnot we would still need to know when people are available. We are also talking about asynchronous meetings, but we should discuss that in #uspp or something because we are on a different topic<br />
*(23:24) <CalebL[laptop]>Either way, if states continue to not be present, especially after changing to biweekly meetings in the future, I would encourage moving some states to probationary status<br />
*(23:25) <teamcoltra>I think the topic at hand is what do we do about these parties who are not attending? It's not my desire to kick any party out -- but if a party is hurting our ability to reach quorum then I would like them to stop that somehow.<br />
*(23:25) <QuazarGuy>have we tried assertive letters?<br />
*(23:25) <teamcoltra>California has been busy, but with the number of people they have in their party -- I think they should also be able to find someone to attend a meeting every once in a while<br />
*(23:25) <teamcoltra>QuazarGuy I usually try to call people<br />
*(23:26) <CalebL[laptop]>Partially unrelatedly, isn't it responsibility of QM for checking in on states *(including forming states, I think)?<br />
*(23:26) <teamcoltra>it is now CalebL[laptop] <br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>Not according to the bylaws it isn't<br />
*(23:26) <QuazarGuy>I agree with your assessment of CA<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>and according to the bylaws the PNC has to vote new duties<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>not the captain.<br />
*(23:27) <teamcoltra>Oh sorry it's just **They will maintain a database of PNC members.<br />
*(23:27) <teamcoltra>not actually following up with that list<br />
*(23:27) <Sacha>teamcoltra thank you for the correction, the duty is not officially assigned<br />
*(23:28) <teamcoltra>Okay does someone want to make a motion of some kind on this agenda item?<br />
*(23:28) <teamcoltra>if not we need to move on and you guys can discuss it more in the forums<br />
*(23:29) <teamcoltra>Okay we are moving on to amending the bylaws by Sacha <br />
*(23:30) <Rab>what does aob mean?<br />
*(23:30) <CalebL[laptop]>Any Other Business<br />
*(23:30) <Sacha>decision making was left out of the bylaws due to a copying error<br />
*(23:30) <Sacha>we should likely vote it into the bylaws<br />
*(23:30) <Sacha>http://piratepad.net/Tt7DOQkcqJ<br />
*(23:31) <mildbeard>It seems like we already voted on it, no? can't we just rectify it if it's truly a copying error?<br />
*(23:31) <CalebL[laptop]>One thing I slightly worry about is inconsistency; as item 1 is already defined in the Constitution<br />
*(23:31) <teamcoltra>Sacha voting rights does not include at large<br />
*(23:31) <Sacha>mildbeard you told me that I had to vote<br />
*(23:31) <Sacha>I asked you last week.<br />
*(23:32) <Sacha>*eyes of disapproval8<br />
*(23:32) <mildbeard>at large states can vote.<br />
*(23:32) <Sacha>I know<br />
*(23:32) <Sacha>this copying and pasting shit is not working<br />
*(23:33) <teamcoltra>"voting members" could easily be inferred to mean "full members" <br />
*(23:33) <Sacha>why did you say that<br />
*(23:33) <QuazarGuy>how dare thou condemn thine holy ctrl+c, ctrl+v<br />
*(23:33) <Sacha>they are in there as observing members<br />
*(23:33) <mildbeard>except that voting rights are explicitly defined in the constitution?<br />
*(23:33) <teamcoltra>True<br />
*(23:33) <CalebL[laptop]>and "To specify if for example there is one aye vote and 10 abstaining votes the vote will still pass." should be fixed grammatically with commas and removing redundancy<br />
*(23:33) <CalebL[laptop]>such as<br />
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*(23:34) <CalebL[laptop]>"For example, if there is one aye vote and 10 abstaining votes, the vote will still pass."<br />
*(23:34) <Sacha>voting rights in the constitution<br />
*(23:34) <Sacha>say<br />
*(23:34) <Sacha>"Officers and Subcommittee Liaisons shall not participate in PNC votes, unless the Officer or Subcommittee Liaison in question is also acting as a State Representative.<br />
*(23:34) <Sacha>All other PNC participants shall vote according to the Bylaws."<br />
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*(23:34) <Sacha>Caleb, then fix it. My grammar is terrible.<br />
*(23:35) <Sacha>Which is why i was a fan of editing the bylaws before going in<br />
*(23:35) <CalebL[laptop]>just as long as it isn't a seconded motion<br />
*(23:35) <Rab>minor editss and obvious errors need not be voted. substantive changes, yes<br />
*(23:36) <teamcoltra>So do we need this to be passed or was it passed last week?<br />
*(23:36) <mildbeard>I think someone can easily go in and create an amended version of the bylaws containing stylistic and grammatical corrections, and we can just vote it in at the succeeding meeting. <br />
*(23:36) <CalebL[laptop]>But yes, isn't all this text actually already present in the Constitution?<br />
*(23:36) <mildbeard>As far as the current omission, I think we already passed it, and we can just reflect the document to reflect that fact. <br />
*(23:36) <Sacha>Caleb no it isn't<br />
*(23:36) <teamcoltra>Works for me<br />
*(23:36) <CalebL[laptop]>not in this exact form, at least<br />
*(23:37) <teamcoltra>if any *(full member) objects they can do so and we will vote on it<br />
*(23:37) <teamcoltra>until then I consider it passed<br />
*(23:37) <teamcoltra>*(with yesterdays)<br />
*(23:37) <mildbeard>cool<br />
*(23:37) <mildbeard>I have to drop, do we have anything else?<br />
*(23:37) <teamcoltra>there were a few more points<br />
*(23:37) <teamcoltra>we are really close<br />
*(23:37) <CalebL[laptop]>Article III, Section 5 declares voting rights<br />
*(23:38) <teamcoltra>Actually *Status of legal registration of the PNC<br />
*(23:38) <teamcoltra>and washington<br />
*(23:38) <teamcoltra>can be done by email if thats okay?<br />
*(23:38) <mildbeard>k<br />
*(23:38) <Sacha>k<br />
*(23:38) <QuazarGuy>report?<br />
*(23:38) <teamcoltra>Yes<br />
*(23:38) <CalebL[laptop]>Yes, we're just inquiring about the status of incorporating the PNC<br />
*(23:38) <QuazarGuy>I wanted to say something that might help other states<br />
*(23:38) <teamcoltra>Then we just have one last discussion point<br />
*(23:39) <Sacha>why not let them do a quickie?<br />
*(23:39) <teamcoltra>QuazarGuy go ahead<br />
*(23:39) <QuazarGuy>http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/WAPP_State_Organization<br />
*(23:39) <QuazarGuy>I put this together for Washington<br />
*(23:39) <QuazarGuy>it's about organizational structure for a state party<br />
*(23:40) <QuazarGuy>and how to manage information for canvassing<br />
*(23:40) <teamcoltra>Non-profits cant affiliate themselves with you<br />
*(23:40) <QuazarGuy>I'll have to change that then<br />
*(23:41) <CalebL[laptop]>I would encourage an official recommendation for how to form local divisions of a state.<br />
*(23:41) <mildbeard>They are still important and you can still work with them. <br />
*(23:41) <QuazarGuy>but I guess it depends on what affiliation means<br />
*(23:41) <Rab>this looks useful. thx!<br />
*(23:41) <teamcoltra>Really they can't do anything, a relationship would need to only go one way you supporting them.<br />
*(23:41) <QuazarGuy>but I must disclaim that this is how it works in WA<br />
*(23:41) <teamcoltra>It looks great though<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>We have a good relationship with some nonprofits<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>hey mildbeard can I publish your metaconstitution on the wiki?<br />
*(23:42) <QuazarGuy>basically everything works at the precinct level so there are literally thousands of openings for people to work towards spreading the pirate word<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>Not to mention several other third parties<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>sorry mentally related<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>sacha yes<br />
*(23:42) <teamcoltra>Okay we had one last topic if QuazarGuy is done and then we can complete the PNC meeting<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>Ooh please pirate it!!!<br />
*(23:42) <teamcoltra>without losing quorum and actually adjourning like normal peoples<br />
*(23:42) <QuazarGuy>yeah done<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>Mildbeard I already have for UC :D<br />
*(23:42) <teamcoltra>*Is the PNC a national brand or is it a resource for the states, I keep seeing it make decisions like it is the first but the membership is of the second.<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>That was me.<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>and I would like to expand my question before opening up for debate please<br />
*(23:43) <mildbeard>Why does it have to be either/or?<br />
*(23:43) <teamcoltra>This is rather a discussion topic, so it's also something that can get bumped into email and on the forums... but I thought I would let it be discussed for a few minutes before we actually adjourn<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>I would like to expand my question before opening up for debate please<br />
*(23:43) <mildbeard>ok ok<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>sorry lol<br />
*(23:44) <Sacha>So can I go ahead and no interruptions please?<br />
*(23:44) <QuazarGuy>please go<br />
*(23:44) <Sacha>Okay are we a national brand or are we a resource for the states<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>making decisions about the website<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>making decisions about committees<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>making decisions that affect the states and peope unrelated to states equallly<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>equally*<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>such a pnc member requirements<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>speaks of a national brand<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>that we are operating beyond the states<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>if we are only a resource for the states<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>for establishing communication<br />
*(23:45) <Sacha>then we should not be involved in any of those things<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>If we are a national brand<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>and that is our goal and that is how we are helping the states<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>then allowing state representatives rights over individuals is fucked up<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>we are all affected by the national image<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>there are some people that are not interested in creating states<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>there are people passionately involved in this party<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>i.e caleb, me, itspara, efk<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>that are not allowed equal status, powers or rights<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>because of the emphasis on states<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>if we are for the states, composed of states<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>and keep this membership system, then we need to step away from anything that is not helping communication between states<br />
*(23:48) <Sacha>or providing resources, not requirements<br />
*(23:48) <Sacha>or we need to change what it means to be a full member of the PNC<br />
*(23:48) <Sacha>that is all sorry for the rant<br />
*(23:48) <mildbeard>I think we are both a national brand and a resource for the states. We should denounce anyone who says they're a "Pirate Party" but they are pro DRM. And we should avoid imposing anything on the states that is unrelated to this brand. And we should be the best possible resource for the states rather than an obstacle to them. <br />
*(23:49) <mildbeard>we should have members at a national level from states where there is no organized pirate party. And people from member states who also want to participate at a national level.<br />
*(23:49) <teamcoltra>I see us as both. Individuals have no place in the the PNC, the PNC is here for the purpose of promoting the state parties and to create a national brand which people can identify with which then encourages more people to join and become members of their state parties. mildbeard's opinion at the beginning that we are both was spot on. I have encouraged Michigan to reapply for full membership for the past month or so now, so it's not<br />
*(23:49) <teamcoltra> as though you don't have an opportunity to be a full member. <br />
*(23:49) <mildbeard>I don't see these things as being mutually exclusive.<br />
*(23:49) <CalebL[laptop]>Sorry that I disagree with you on a point, despite the complement. I'm adamantly involved, but I believe I should have full voting privileges, as I'm not an official representative of Minnesota.<br />
*(23:49) <passstab>but what about a pirate party that is anti-gay?<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>Teamcoltra My only opportunity is to waste my time on something i do not want to do<br />
*(23:50) <passstab>i think we need a platform<br />
*(23:50) <teamcoltra>then don't bitch because you can't<br />
*(23:50) <CalebL[laptop]>If the MNPP was formed and an interim staff elected, and the state party was growing, and I had been elected chair, THEN I should have privileges.<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>I desperately want to be involved at the national level, it is all I want to do<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>I am fucking bitching<br />
*(23:50) <mildbeard>passstab I agree. Other Pirate Parties are extending their platforms in this way. <br />
*(23:50) <mildbeard>sweden<br />
*(23:50) <mildbeard>Germany<br />
*(23:50) <itspara>[23:50] <passstab> i think we need a platform <br />
*(23:50) <mildbeard>England<br />
*(23:50) <itspara>^THIS^<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>because you are representing eople<br />
*(23:50) <teamcoltra>there is no national level... there are state levels which create a national body<br />
*(23:50) <mildbeard>there is a national level<br />
*(23:50) <CalebL[laptop]>If I'm a random guy off the street, I shouldn't represent a whole state by being self-appointed<br />
*(23:50) <teamcoltra>I also think we need a comprehensive platform<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>Then we cannot do anything at the national level<br />
*(23:51) <Sacha>calebL but in here you can<br />
*(23:51) <Sacha>but if you are not attached to a state and work your ass off as the head of IT<br />
*(23:51) <Sacha>you have to hook up with a state to even have a goddamn voice without permission<br />
*(23:51) <itspara>The "national" does exist. its made up of states. A national platform would be a general representation of all the states beliefs<br />
*(23:51) <mildbeard>This all-or-nothing thinking helps nobody. we are an international movement. <br />
*(23:52) <Sacha>Teamcoltra if you do that you are representing people who are not given access to being a full member unless they devote their precious time and energy to something they do not want to do<br />
*(23:52) <Sacha>I agree mildbeard, which is why I think that the focus should be on states and helping states<br />
*(23:52) <QuazarGuy>due to this argument being about semantics I motion to move the discussion to the mailing list and adjourn<br />
*(23:52) <Sacha>but not in the membership<br />
*(23:52) <teamcoltra>anyone want to second QuazarGuy ?<br />
*(23:52) <teamcoltra>Please do<br />
*(23:52) <Sacha>Quazarguy I would rather forums but would agree<br />
*(23:52) <QuazarGuy>forums, w/e<br />
*(23:53) <mildbeard>I second - I agree with a lot of what Sacha is saying and don't think it should be controversial. <br />
*(23:53) <teamcoltra>Second from a member?<br />
*(23:53) <teamcoltra>Good.. all in favour?<br />
*(23:53) <QuazarGuy>aye<br />
*(23:53) <CalebL[laptop]>aye<br />
*(23:53) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(23:53) <mildbeard>aye<br />
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*(23:54) <CalebL[laptop]>I don't think OrionSteele has been present for over an hour, so we realistically don't have quorum *(despite the numbers)<br />
*(23:54) <CalebL[laptop]>xP<br />
*(23:54) <teamcoltra>regardless we are set<br />
*(23:54) <teamcoltra>good night guys<br />
*(23:54) <Sacha>lol we are set<br />
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*(23:54) <Sacha>I am making a forums post though about it<br />
*(23:54) <Sacha>BE BOLD BE BOLD BE BOLD BE BOLD<br />
*(23:54) <CalebL[laptop]>Anyway, if we're to provide resources, then people should start rounding up together and doing that<br />
*(23:54) <Sacha>CalebL working on it with the wiki committee<br />
*(23:54) <passstab>what exactly did we just approve?<br />
*(23:55) <Sacha>lol that is the main goal<br />
*(23:55) <teamcoltra>going to sleep<br />
*(23:55) <teamcoltra>not a statement, thats my answer to passstab <br />
*(23:55) <CalebL[laptop]>Tabling an agenda item to the next meeting and adjourn<br />
*(23:55) <passstab>lol thanks<br />
*(23:55) <CalebL[laptop]>Even though I don't think you can have the two as a single motion. xP<br />
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*(23:56) <CalebL[laptop]>But I could be wrong<br />
*(23:56) <Sacha>also please do comment in the forums<br />
*(23:57) <Sacha>also CalebL[laptop] for the sake of transparency and being honest, I think you are a bit judgmental and kinda a dick<br />
*(23:57) <Sacha>but I really respect you<br />
*(23:57) <Sacha>and appreciate how you throw out your opinions<br />
*(23:57) <Sacha>JSYK<br />
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*(23:59) <QuazarGuy>CalabL you can't, but I didn't think anyone would care<br />
*(00:00) <QuazarGuy>Sacha is there a wiki discussion going?<br />
*(00:01) <Sacha>QuazarGuy not right now, I am going to move it over to the forums<br />
*(00:01) <Sacha>i also want to work on content for the website but I am shying away from that now, so i'll just work on wiki stuff<br />
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*(00:05) <QuazarGuy>we wiki people have the main page discussion tab<br />
*(00:06) <Sacha>yeah, that is true<br />
*(00:06) <Sacha>since they are doing something different with content we should use the discussion tab for wiki stuff<br />
*(00:07) <QuazarGuy>sure<br />
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<div>PNC Meeting Agenda<br />
:'''10/24/2012 21:00h EDT'''<br />
:IRC: irc.pirateirc.net<br />
:Room: #pnc<br />
:Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/24/12<br />
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==Attendees==<br />
===Members of the PNC ===<br />
=====Attending=====<br />
*Kyle Devore, OR<br />
*Erik Zoltan, MA<br />
*Orion Steele, CA<br />
*Bradley Hall, FL<br />
*Stuart James Gavin, WI<br />
*Jeffrey Talada, WA<br />
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=====Excused=====<br />
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=====Unexcused=====<br />
*NY<br />
*GA<br />
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=====Probation=====<br />
*OK<br />
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===At Large Members of the PNC ===<br />
*Nic Desalvi, MD<br />
*RobertSteele, VA<br />
*Brady Dribble, WA<br />
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===Officers of the PNC ===<br />
*Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY, First Officer<br />
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==Proceedings==<br />
Meeting opened at: 9:05 pm EDT by <br />
*Meeting chaired by Lindsay Anne Brunner, NY<br />
*Secretary for this meeting is Amanda Johnson, MI<br />
*Quorum is established: 5 out of 8 Members present<br />
*Logging Enabled: Yes<br />
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==Review of previous minutes ==<br />
http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/17/12<br />
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== REPORTS ==<br />
===Short report of the board members ===<br />
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====Massachusetts====<br />
*held a crypto party, had Tor representatives and over a dozen sessions<br />
*Representative led a class on file sharing with privacy measures<br />
*hoping to post videos soon<br />
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====Washington====<br />
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====Oregon====<br />
*nothing to report<br />
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====Georgia====<br />
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====Florida====<br />
*Nothing to report<br />
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====New York====<br />
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====California====<br />
*met with officers in southern california over the weekend, they are actively connecting with socialists, libertarians, anarchists and labor activists who are all seriously considering coming to CAPP<br />
*Weekly meetings continuing each monday, the Pirate Hour will feature a republican libertarian who uses liquid feedback this thursday, should be an interesting conversation<br />
*the President of the California Teachers Union publically thanked Eric Maag in front of thousands of teachers and union members for participating in the pirate hour and encouraged other teachers to take similar efforts to raise awareness about propositions in CA before the election<br />
*preparing a pirate party voting guide for CA that we hope to distribute at the beginning of next week helping voters who are aligned with the pirate party navigate the propositions in CA<br />
*very first pirate party high school club that will be using website and doing a variety of things like canvassing <br />
*drafting legislation for our state banning the use of drones. we plan to submit it to the legislature at the beginning of their next term<br />
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====Wisconsin====<br />
*met with the Joe and Francis Klien this past sunday and talked about how to begin and grow the party here. Discussed strategy and have a tentative time like for after for organizing the platform with liquid democracy and modern "LAN" parties in metro areas<br />
*working on getting a student group started<br />
*planning to use liquid deomocracy in the future <br />
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===Short Report From Committees ===<br />
====IT Committee====<br />
*Will use German PP theme for new website<br />
**Not CC-By<br />
*Discussed setting up a security standard<br />
*want to have the platform, state and national news, and discussed putting the state reports right on the front page<br />
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====Convention Committee====<br />
*officially dissolve this? (Sacha)<br />
**MA moves to dissolve committee<br />
**Motion passes, 5 aye, 1 abstain<br />
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==Agenda Items ==<br />
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*Trans-Pacific Partnership - Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer, PPAU<br />
**Mozart from PPAU was going to talk about the Trans-Pacific Partnership tonight, but he can't be here. He'll talk about it at the next meeting, but says it'd be a good idea for the American pirates to consider what they would like to say in a joint statement to TPP negotiators. Start talking to CAPP about their experience.<br />
***California's experiences<br />
****Be sure to be registered, looking proper is also good<br />
****http://www.calpirateparty.org/1/post/2012/07/california-pirate-party-response-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty.html, speech<br />
****http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MQyMDyMlR9E, video<br />
*****Good opportunity to network with other groups<br />
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*Nominations for Officer positions<br />
**Captain: Travis McCrea, Lindsay-Anne Brunner <br />
**First Officer: Travis McCrea, Lindsay-Anne Brunner, Amanda Johnson (who is moving to Canada in case that affects your vote)<br />
**Quartermaster: Caleb Laneslag <br />
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*Press Committee formation<br />
**Motion to form Press Committee<br />
***Motion passes, 4 aye, will meet in #uspp-press<br />
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==AOB==<br />
*put a person in charge of newbies, wiki page 'want to help out' (Sacha)<br />
**Sacha retracts talking point <br />
*I would like someone who is experienced in canvassing and pirate materials to help me replace the broken pages and flesh out the new state party guide. I do not have the knowledge but I have the skills to make pictures and do the "clerical work", see http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/Local_Party_Organization (Sacha)<br />
**Message belle10152@hotmail.com to help out<br />
*Editing the wording of the core values for clarity. Or should we just clarify what they mean more on the wiki?(Sacha)<br />
*Removing state reports from the meeting (Sacha)<br />
**WA motions that states send their reports to the quartermaster to compile and distribute temporarilly until another solution is found and removed from meetings<br />
**motion passed, 4 for, states are to send state reports to sacha at belle10152@hotmail.com by Monday to be published on the wiki<br />
*Finishing agenda before meeting begins; all additions should be done before start of meetings. -lb<br />
*use forum<br />
**pirate-party.us/forum/ Use them. <br />
*Motion to adjourn<br />
**Motion passes, 4 for<br />
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*Next meeting: TBA at 9PM EDT<br />
*Meeting closed: 11:58PM EST<br />
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==Logs==<br />
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*(21:04) <kusanagi>Meeting opening. Please state your full name, representative status and state.<br />
*(21:04) <kusanagi>Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY<br />
*(21:04) <kusanagi>FO<br />
*(21:05) <MrSquared>Kyle DeVore, Rep, Oregon<br />
*(21:05) <stubuntu>Stuart James Gavin, Agent of Kliens, WIsconsin<br />
*(21:06) <kusanagi>ping Rush jarod OrionSteele stubuntu Brady <br />
*(21:06) <Brady>Brady O'bannon Dibble, Observer, Washington. Washington will not have an official rep tonight.<br />
*(21:06) <Rush>Bradley Hall, Florida<br />
*(21:06) <OrionSteele>Orion Steele - California<br />
*(21:06) - mildbeard joined<br />
*(21:06) <Sacha>Brady are you sure? You wish to be excused instead?<br />
*(21:06) <mildbeard>Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts<br />
*(21:06) <itspara>Nic DeSalvi - Maryland<br />
*(21:06) <kusanagi>Excusal can only happen before the meeting<br />
*(21:06) <Sacha>Jeff excused himself to me before the meeting<br />
*(21:07) <Sacha>As acting QM I am sure it is perfectly legitimate<br />
*(21:07) <kusanagi>Ehn, ok<br />
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*(21:07) <Sacha>Amanda Johnson, MI<br />
*(21:07) <kusanagi>WA is excused for the night<br />
*(21:09) <kusanagi>okay, first thing first, http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_10/17/12 was last week<br />
*(21:09) <kusanagi>are we all good on that?<br />
*(21:09) - Brady is now known as Brady|School<br />
*(21:10) <OrionSteele>yes looks good<br />
*(21:10) <Rush>Yep<br />
*(21:10) <mildbeard>yes<br />
*(21:12) <kusanagi>Ok, State Reports are up. mildbeard, what's going on in MAPP this week?<br />
*(21:12) <mildbeard>hi<br />
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*(21:13) <kusanagi>...<br />
*(21:13) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:13) <OrionSteele>that was weird<br />
*(21:13) <kusanagi>WA is out for the night, so, ORPP, MrSquared?<br />
*(21:14) <MrSquared>Sure<br />
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*(21:14) <MrSquared>We really have nothing to report yet. I blame the rain.<br />
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*(21:15) <mildbeard>sorry<br />
*(21:15) <kusanagi>bleh, rain. welcome back mildbeard, want to give MAPP's report now?<br />
*(21:15) <kusanagi>it happens<br />
*(21:15) <mildbeard>toddler pushed power button on me<br />
*(21:15) <mildbeard>MAPP helped to host a crypto party over the weekend. <br />
*(21:15) <mildbeard>We had representatives from the Tor network and over a dozen sessions. <br />
*(21:16) <mildbeard>I led a class on file sharing with privacy measures.<br />
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*(21:16) <mildbeard>It went very well, and we are hoping to post videos of many of the talks. <br />
*(21:16) <kusanagi>very cool.<br />
*(21:16) <mildbeard>Nothing else new to report.<br />
*(21:16) <OrionSteele>nice!<br />
*(21:16) <kusanagi>Florida! Rush!<br />
*(21:17) <RobertSteele>Pirate Pin and Pirate Patch at this URL, need to raise $5000 to get first order in, then they can be given to individual new members: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2012/10/worth-a-look-pirate-party-pin-and-eye-patch/<br />
*(21:18) <kusanagi>RobertSteele, please wait<br />
*(21:18) <Sacha>Who is robert Steele?<br />
*(21:18) <OrionSteele>i have no idea<br />
*(21:18) <Rush>Florida really has nothing to report this week.<br />
*(21:18) <kusanagi>I know him, but he's kind of interupting<br />
*(21:19) <Sacha>Okay next time please tell him to check in if he is going to talk because he is on the logs but never identified<br />
*(21:19) <kusanagi>I understand that<br />
*(21:19) <kusanagi>I had no idea he was going to come in<br />
*(21:19) <RobertSteele>Robert Steele was invited by Brad Hall. http://bigbatusa.org, http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012<br />
*(21:20) <kusanagi>name and where you reside, please<br />
*(21:20) <RobertSteele>RobertSteele, Oakton VA. I started the VA element after connecting with Brad<br />
*(21:20) <kusanagi>Thank you<br />
*(21:21) <Rush>He is technically the Virginia Pirate Party<br />
*(21:21) <RobertSteele>Argh<br />
*(21:21) <kusanagi>I know you RobertSteele. I'm Brunner from NY<br />
*(21:21) <Sacha>Ahhh okay, no biggie<br />
*(21:21) <kusanagi>Anyway, that aside<br />
*(21:21) <Sacha>At large then coolio<br />
*(21:21) <kusanagi>No one from NY is here, so skip<br />
*(21:22) <kusanagi>California, OrionSteele. what's up?<br />
*(21:22) <OrionSteele>Weekly meetings continuing each monday, the Pirate Hour will feature a republican libertarian who uses liquid feedback this thursday, should be an interesting conversation<br />
*(21:23) <OrionSteele>I met with our officers in southern california over the weekend, they are actively connecting with socialists, libertarians, anarchists and labor activists who are all seriously considering coming to CAPP<br />
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*(21:24) <OrionSteele>the President of the California Teachers Union publically thanked Eric Maag in front of thousands of teachers and union members for participating in the pirate hour and encouraged other teachers to take similar efforts to raise awareness about propositions in CA before the election<br />
*(21:24) <kusanagi>Awesome<br />
*(21:24) <OrionSteele>we are preparing a pirate party voting guide for our state that we hope to distribute at the beginning of next week helping voters who are aligned with the pirate party navigate the propositions in our state<br />
*(21:25) <OrionSteele>we also have our very first pirate party high school club that will be using our website and doing a variety of things for us like canvassing <br />
*(21:26) <OrionSteele>they aren't voting age yet, but they are excited and helpful<br />
*(21:26) <kusanagi>very very cool :D<br />
*(21:26) <kusanagi>first pirate high school club in the nation XD<br />
*(21:27) <OrionSteele>and we are drafting legislation for our state banning the use of drones. we plan to submit it to the legislature at the beginning of their next term<br />
*(21:27) <kusanagi>excellent.<br />
*(21:27) <OrionSteele>so i guess that's where we are at right now<br />
*(21:27) <itspara>california o.o<br />
*(21:27) <OrionSteele>trololol yep<br />
*(21:28) <kusanagi>That's excellent, seriously<br />
*(21:28) <itspara>your cheating <br />
*(21:28) <itspara>but keep at it<br />
*(21:28) <kusanagi>up next, stubuntu with WIPP?<br />
*(21:28) <stubuntu>I met with the Joe and Francis Klien this past sunday and we talked about how to begin and grow the party here. We discussed strategy and have a tentative time like for after for organizing the platform with liquid democracy and modern "LAN" parties in metro areas <br />
*(21:29) <stubuntu>timeline* not time like<br />
*(21:30) <stubuntu>Francis is starting the student group at Uni of Wisconsin<br />
*(21:30) <kusanagi>Awesome<br />
*(21:30) <stubuntu>I am currently tracking down some people who i've worked with on past campaigns to start student groups at other wisconsin unis and colleges<br />
*(21:31) <kusanagi>not bad<br />
*(21:31) <stubuntu>I also realized i forgot the work election between for and after in the second sentence <br />
*(21:31) <stubuntu>word*<br />
*(21:32) <stubuntu>once we have these smaller groups up we want to use the liquid democracy platform to create our platform for the state party<br />
*(21:33) <kusanagi>niftyvery cool<br />
*(21:33) <stubuntu>thats pretty much it<br />
*(21:33) <kusanagi>very nice<br />
*(21:34) <kusanagi>CalebL[laptop], you're not here, are you?<br />
*(21:34) <Sacha>If he isn't me and itspara can talk<br />
*(21:35) <itspara>I wasn't at last nights meeting so I wouldn't be able to represent<br />
*(21:35) <Sacha>Oh that's right you weren't, asynch meetings confuse me xD<br />
*(21:35) <Sacha>cuz you talked in the forum post<br />
*(21:36) <kusanagi>hm, ok<br />
*(21:36) <kusanagi>so if one of you can update, that would be nice.<br />
*(21:36) <kusanagi>if not, we can skip.<br />
*(21:37) <Sacha>Okay the big highlights of the meeting were choosing the new theme for the website<br />
*(21:37) <Sacha>we decided to go with the german theme that nypp is also using, though we're going to tweak the colors and a few other things<br />
*(21:37) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:37) <kusanagi>it's a nice theme<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>Next we talked about setting up a security standard<br />
*(21:38) <Sacha>to be quite honest I didn't really understand so I can't say too much, we didn't come to any specific conclusions or requirements to present to the PNC though<br />
*(21:39) <Sacha>After that we talked about content for the front page<br />
*(21:40) <Sacha>We want to have the platform, state and national news, and discussed putting the state reports right on the front page<br />
*(21:40) <Sacha>Me and EFK hobbled together an really rough first example<br />
*(21:40) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:40) <Sacha>by the time we finished the rest of the people had kinda... gone away or something so the meeting was ended lol<br />
*(21:40) <kusanagi>happens<br />
*(21:40) * kusanagi shrugs<br />
*(21:41) <mildbeard>sounds like a PNC meeting.<br />
*(21:41) <Sacha>http://i.imgur.com/ZVY9D.png<br />
*(21:41) <kusanagi>mildbeard, haha<br />
*(21:41) <Sacha>Just for a brief look, the bbc thing is symbolic for a news feed<br />
*(21:41) <Sacha>mildbeard i know right bro<br />
*(21:41) <kusanagi>personally, i hate the engagement thing<br />
*(21:41) <kusanagi>but that's my quip on the nypp site<br />
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*(21:42) <Sacha>I like the engagement for uspp because we have multiple ways<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>Hopefully one day we will allow people to get involved by moderating the forums or posting news articles<br />
*(21:42) <kusanagi>"Get Involved" is my suggestion. just throwing it out there<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>so we can put up 'job posings' there<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>oh I like get involed a lot more<br />
*(21:42) <kusanagi>job postings?<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>We are going to change the wording of course<br />
*(21:42) <itspara>Yeah, I like "get Involved"<br />
*(21:42) <Sacha>yeah like.. "We have openings for forum moderators"<br />
*(21:43) <itspara>lol wut<br />
*(21:43) <kusanagi>job isn't a good word choice<br />
*(21:43) <Sacha>Spitballing, word choice can be discussed later<br />
*(21:44) <itspara>I think stuff like moderators doesnt need to be advertised past meetings and the forums<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>yeah<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>ALSO<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>big note<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>the theme IS NOT CC-0<br />
*(21:44) <itspara>true<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>We got an email correcting us on that<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>so make sure to have a note on that<br />
*(21:44) <kusanagi>it's CC-BY<br />
*(21:45) <itspara>yeah... it says it in the theme itself >.><br />
*(21:45) <Sacha>Be sure to let claeb know if he doesn't<br />
*(21:45) <Sacha>I am involved in making it look pretty<br />
*(21:45) <kusanagi>itspara, i know, but it was still posted as CC-0<br />
*(21:46) <kusanagi>so, i'll let CalebL[laptop] know.<br />
*(21:46) <Sacha>Noted on the minutes, that's all really<br />
*(21:46) <Sacha>Good idea<br />
*(21:47) <kusanagi>that's all from it?<br />
*(21:47) <itspara>hrm.. ok<br />
*(21:48) <kusanagi>guys?<br />
*(21:48) <Sacha>"that's all really"<br />
*(21:48) <kusanagi>have to double check<br />
*(21:48) <kusanagi>convention committee is next<br />
*(21:48) <kusanagi>sinc that fell apart<br />
*(21:49) <kusanagi>sacha, you'd like to dissolve it/<br />
*(21:49) <Sacha>Exactamente<br />
*(21:49) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:49) <kusanagi>well, you know the drill for dissolving<br />
*(21:50) <kusanagi>any state wish to move?<br />
*(21:50) <RobertSteele>VA<br />
*(21:50) <mildbeard>move to dissolve the convention committee<br />
*(21:50) <RobertSteele>yup...my small contribution<br />
*(21:51) <kusanagi>RobertSteele, your state isn't a member.<br />
*(21:51) <RobertSteele>that's why it's failing, but okay<br />
*(21:51) <Sacha>Who is going to second<br />
*(21:51) <kusanagi>any second?<br />
*(21:51) <stubuntu>second<br />
*(21:51) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:51) <kusanagi>debate?<br />
*(21:52) <Rush>*(RobertSteele there's a tab under the Mibbit graphic that says "Rush" - click it and I'll talk with you, I'm Brad)<br />
*(21:52) <OrionSteele>what is the convention committee supposed to do again and why should we dissolve it?<br />
*(21:52) <mildbeard>why debate? It was a non-committee that never really did anything. Let's just dissolve it.<br />
*(21:52) <mildbeard>It was supposed to create a convention so we could have an annual meeting and elect officers.<br />
*(21:53) <Sacha>It has done nothing and we are discussing the elections on the forums now<br />
*(21:53) <mildbeard>We wound up just moving to have a regular IRC meeting where we'd elect them. <br />
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*(21:53) <QuazarGuy>Jeff Talada, WA<br />
*(21:54) <Sacha>QuazarGuy you acting as rep or just an observer?<br />
*(21:54) <mildbeard>It was a good idea, but we should just move on.<br />
*(21:54) <Sacha>I agree with mildbeard completely<br />
*(21:54) <QuazarGuy>if Brady is busy, rep<br />
*(21:55) <Sacha>He decided to be an observer so i will put you as rep<br />
*(21:55) <OrionSteele>ok im sold<br />
*(21:55) <OrionSteele>if there is an alt forum available through the forums and it wasn't doing anything then why not<br />
*(21:56) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(21:56) <kusanagi> so, any motion to vote/<br />
*(21:57) <stubuntu>I move we close debate and vote on the previous motion.<br />
*(21:57) <mildbeard>second<br />
*(21:57) <stubuntu>previous actually the motion being debated<br />
*(21:58) <kusanagi>i can take that as a amend<br />
*(21:58) <Sacha>We already had a motion to vote<br />
*(21:58) <stubuntu>it was a point of clarificatiom<br />
*(21:59) <Sacha>So we can vote now right?<br />
*(22:00) <kusanagi>yes<br />
*(22:00) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(22:00) <mildbeard>aye<br />
*(22:00) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(22:01) <stubuntu>aye<br />
*(22:01) <QuazarGuy>abstain<br />
*(22:01) <Rush>what is being voted on I can't see it<br />
*(22:01) <OrionSteele>dissolving convention committee<br />
*(22:01) <Rush>oh, right<br />
*(22:01) <Rush>aye<br />
*(22:01) <kusanagi>calling it<br />
*(22:02) <kusanagi>Sacha, count?<br />
*(22:02) <Sacha>5 aye, 1 abstain<br />
*(22:02) <kusanagi>motion passes, convention commitee dissolved.<br />
*(22:02) <kusanagi>hooray<br />
*(22:03) <mildbeard>now we're "unconventional"...<br />
*(22:03) * kusanagi giggles<br />
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*(22:03) <stubuntu>punny<br />
*(22:03) <kusanagi>Aight, onto the agenda<br />
*(22:03) <kusanagi>Mozart from PPAU wanted to talk with us, but he's not here tonight due to family stuff<br />
*(22:04) <kusanagi>but TPP talks are now happening in Auckland soon, I don't recall the date<br />
*(22:04) <kusanagi>And he recommends that we start to consider what we'd like to say in a joint statement to be given by PPAU and PPNZ<br />
*(22:05) <stubuntu>statement regarding? <br />
*(22:05) <kusanagi>If OrionSteele wants to elaborate on CAPP's experience with TPP talks, that's the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that would be great.<br />
*(22:05) <Sacha>I think this is the sort of thing that should go in the forums<br />
*(22:05) <Sacha>forum8<br />
*(22:05) <OrionSteele>yeah i can do that<br />
*(22:05) <Sacha>forum*<br />
*(22:05) <kusanagi>4 people use the forum<br />
*(22:06) <kusanagi>We have people here now, let's go over it.<br />
*(22:06) <OrionSteele>well i will just say a couple things<br />
*(22:06) <Rush>I have to post something on the FLPP FB.<br />
*(22:06) <OrionSteele>first, we have to make sure that the registration information is correct. They will not let anyone in who is not registered with proper identification. A suit and tie also help<br />
*(22:06) <OrionSteele>we had one dude get escorted out of the building by security bc he was trying to impersonate me<br />
*(22:06) <kusanagi>OrionSteele, the talk is in New Zealand. I don't think anyone from here will be attending.<br />
*(22:06) <kusanagi>lol<br />
*(22:07) <OrionSteele>oh haha<br />
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*(22:07) <OrionSteele>i thought you meant the TPP talks that were happening here<br />
*(22:07) <kusanagi>that was last month, no one could make it<br />
*(22:07) <Sacha>It is already 10 pm, if everyone in here would like to spend time talking about it<br />
*(22:07) <Sacha>then i am okay<br />
*(22:07) <OrionSteele>well we published the text of the speech we gave...went a little more militant than some other people who gave speeches<br />
*(22:07) <Sacha>otherwise we can all pony up and use our alternatives<br />
*(22:07) <kusanagi>Sacha, this is important.<br />
*(22:08) <Sacha>Yeah, which is why we should spend hours talking about it<br />
*(22:08) <Sacha>and it is 10pm<br />
*(22:08) <OrionSteele>the negotiations are a great opportunity to network with other groups and forge alliances<br />
*(22:08) <Sacha>Our captain isn't even here<br />
*(22:08) <kusanagi>We can operate without him for one night<br />
*(22:08) <Sacha>We have other quick shit to get through, we should put it on the forum and use them<br />
*(22:08) <Sacha>We do not need to<br />
*(22:09) <OrionSteele>you can read the speech if you want, other than that i can elaborate later or in other venues...<br />
*(22:09) <Sacha>How about this, can we take a vote<br />
*(22:09) <kusanagi>OrionSteele, please continue<br />
*(22:10) <OrionSteele>http://www.calpirateparty.org/1/post/2012/07/california-pirate-party-response-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty.html<br />
*(22:10) <OrionSteele>thats the speech<br />
*(22:10) <OrionSteele>it covers a lot of our issues with the treaty. we worked with Australian Pirate Party to get the speech done<br />
*(22:11) <OrionSteele>there's also a meeting where we met with the Australian Pirate Party on google hangouts to chat about it, i can post the link if you want to watch instead of read<br />
*(22:11) <kusanagi>for the record, please do<br />
*(22:12) <OrionSteele>ok one sec<br />
*(22:13) <OrionSteele>here is the meeting where Travis talks about his experience in San Diego giving the speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MQyMDyMlR9E<br />
*(22:14) <kusanagi>awesome<br />
*(22:14) <OrionSteele>i'll keep looking for the specific video where australia comes<br />
*(22:14) <kusanagi>thank you<br />
*(22:14) <mildbeard>I've been reading through the speech, it's the kind of thing that makes your blood boil.<br />
*(22:15) <OrionSteele>but that should be good...the speech and the video with the guy talking about his experience giving the speech<br />
*(22:15) <mildbeard>Great speech.<br />
*(22:15) <kusanagi>Again, Mozart will come in next week to discuss it more with us. But please start getting your thoughts together for a statement<br />
*(22:15) <kusanagi>it is great<br />
*(22:15) <OrionSteele>:) thanks travis really hit the right tone...makes us debaters proud<br />
*(22:15) <kusanagi>:)<br />
*(22:15) <kusanagi>next item<br />
*(22:16) <kusanagi>is nominations for officers<br />
*(22:16) <Sacha>We should push this off another week<br />
*(22:16) <kusanagi>Why?<br />
*(22:16) <Sacha>Neither Caleb nor Travis are here<br />
*(22:16) <mildbeard>yeah why?<br />
*(22:16) <kusanagi>you just have to nominate<br />
*(22:16) <kusanagi>no need to accept tonight, from my understanding<br />
*(22:16) <Sacha>So they do not have to accept the nominations<br />
*(22:17) <Sacha>K go then<br />
*(22:17) <kusanagi>Anyone have any?<br />
*(22:17) <Sacha>Travis wants captain, and Caleb is talking about QM<br />
*(22:17) <itspara>Why can nominate?<br />
*(22:17) <itspara>*Who<br />
*(22:17) <Sacha>Itspara States<br />
*(22:17) <Sacha>Or a state can second a nomination<br />
*(22:17) <kusanagi>states nom<br />
*(22:17) <itspara>Just member states I assume<br />
*(22:17) <Sacha>So someone would have to second Travis and Caleb for it to be legitimate<br />
*(22:17) <mildbeard>Anyone have nominations who can't officially make them, just IM me.<br />
*(22:18) <Rush>I'll nominate Kusanagi, Lindsay-Anne Brunner, and Bill Bixby to be Captain<br />
*(22:18) <mildbeard>I'll nominate Travis for Captain and Caleb for QM.<br />
*(22:18) <mildbeard>ooh, Bill Bixby will be hard to beat.<br />
*(22:18) <kusanagi>lol<br />
*(22:19) <kusanagi>Anyone for FM noms?<br />
*(22:19) <Rush>*(seriously, Kusanagi)<br />
*(22:19) <Sacha>Can you run for two positions?<br />
*(22:19) <itspara>I think you COULD but you could only accept one<br />
*(22:19) <kusanagi>Not sure, but why not?<br />
*(22:20) <Sacha>Okay, the who is doing FO<br />
*(22:20) <Sacha>was that an actual nom Rush?<br />
*(22:20) <kusanagi>I just asked.<br />
*(22:20) <QuazarGuy>votes would be placed for candidates that won't accept<br />
*(22:20) <Rush>Yes<br />
*(22:20) <mildbeard>I would think anyone who is running for captain ought to be able to run for FO too, and they can simply drop out if they are elected captain.<br />
*(22:20) <Sacha>exactly what i am worried about, then you will have to accept a runner up<br />
*(22:20) <kusanagi>mildbeard, that's a good idea<br />
*(22:21) <QuazarGuy>then FM will have to be voted for after Captain<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>If the same person wins Captain and FO then the people could be forced with a runner up<br />
*(22:21) <Sacha>Maybe the third in the overall would have been first if it had been just the two<br />
*(22:22) <itspara>sacha has a point<br />
*(22:22) <kusanagi>if one is elected Capt, then they should be required to step out of thge FO race<br />
*(22:22) <Sacha>If we are doing this properly<br />
*(22:22) <Sacha>Then people should be going back to their states and agreeing on who to vote for<br />
*(22:22) <mildbeard>No<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>let's not slow this down any more.<br />
*(22:23) <Sacha>We wouldn't be<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>Delegates have the authority of their states to participate.<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>They have their own internal processes for collaborating.<br />
*(22:23) <Sacha>the expectation is that people will go back this week to talk and then do the voting next week<br />
*(22:23) <Sacha>That is why we do not do them the same meeting<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>OK I agree with that. I thought you meant before nominating.<br />
*(22:24) <mildbeard>sorry<br />
*(22:24) <Sacha>That would be fine unless a favored candidate for fO suddenly drops out<br />
*(22:24) <kusanagi>?<br />
*(22:24) <Sacha>then the state rep has to choose on their own who to favor now<br />
*(22:24) <Sacha>mildbeard no prob<br />
*(22:24) <mildbeard>Don't see it as an issue. The representative casts the vote for the state.<br />
*(22:25) <QuazarGuy>if the FO nominee drops out the rep has to consult their state<br />
*(22:25) <Sacha>QuazarGuy they can't, won't have time<br />
*(22:25) <Rush>what does FO mean?<br />
*(22:25) <kusanagi>there is no FO nominee<br />
*(22:25) <Sacha>First Officer*<br />
*(22:25) <Rush>oh<br />
*(22:25) <Sacha>Compromise states reps go back and do a plan B<br />
*(22:26) <Sacha>if your pick for FO doesn't get it, who will the rep vote for<br />
*(22:26) <Sacha>that should cover it<br />
*(22:26) <QuazarGuy>we're looking at a two week long election period if we allow multiple position running candidates<br />
*(22:26) <mildbeard>No I disagree.<br />
*(22:26) <Sacha>QuazarGuy, what about my addition?<br />
*(22:26) <mildbeard>We are looking at a single meeting.<br />
*(22:26) <mildbeard>Representatives should come prepared to vote.<br />
*(22:26) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(22:26) <kusanagi>Sacha, as of now, who are the noms and for what?<br />
*(22:26) <Sacha>Mildbeard do you agree to my compromise?<br />
*(22:26) <QuazarGuy>with a contingency for each possible outcome?<br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>You should know who you support or have the authority to make a determination personally.<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>quazarguy exacty<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>Or you can have a contingency for the possible outcomes<br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>If the state doesn't trust their representative to make a decision, then they should get a better rep.<br />
*(22:27) <kusanagi>^<br />
*(22:27) <stubuntu>agreed<br />
*(22:27) <QuazarGuy>I think Travis wouldn't allow this<br />
*(22:27) <Sacha>Pointless.<br />
*(22:28) <kusanagi>I don't think so either<br />
*(22:28) <kusanagi>and I asked a question<br />
*(22:28) <kusanagi>Sacha, what is the full list of noms and for what positions?<br />
*(22:28) <Sacha>Mildbeard Do you want one meeting voting. If so there is a compromise on the table that will allow that.<br />
*(22:28) <mildbeard>Can you explain what the compromise is?<br />
*(22:29) <Sacha>Kusanagi Captain: Kusanagi, Travis, Bill<br />
*(22:29) <Sacha>QM: Caleb<br />
*(22:29) <kusanagi>Erm, Bill was a joke.<br />
*(22:29) <kusanagi>it's okay though, I didn't get it either<br />
*(22:29) <mildbeard>Bill Bixby is an actor from the 1970s.<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>mildbeard If there is a person that is running for two spots, states pick their second choice for the position<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>A contigency plan<br />
*(22:30) <Sacha>Then the rep will know who to vote for<br />
*(22:30) <kusanagi>but at this time there aren't any running for two spots<br />
*(22:30) <mildbeard>I think that a candidate should be able to run for more than one position. <br />
*(22:31) <kusanagi>and the nominations were due tonight<br />
*(22:31) <Sacha>mildbeard they can, with that compromise<br />
*(22:31) <mildbeard>I don't think that we should dictate anything about how states or their representatives make decisions. So I don't think the compromise is needed.<br />
*(22:31) <kusanagi>I fully agree with mildbeard <br />
*(22:32) <Sacha>kusanagi Do you plan to run for first officer<br />
*(22:32) <mildbeard>In Massachusetts, I have the authority to make a decision for our state. If there are any issues where I'm not sure, then I simply contact the officers of our state and ask them. <br />
*(22:32) <kusanagi>Since there aren't any noms for FM, this is my idea<br />
*(22:32) <kusanagi>hear it out<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>Fuck I will self nominate if there is no one else<br />
*(22:33) <kusanagi>whoever loses the vote for capt, has the option of FO<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>NOPE<br />
*(22:33) <kusanagi>language, Sacha <br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>NOPE<br />
*(22:33) <mildbeard>How about we nominate Kusanagi and Travis to be FO.<br />
*(22:33) <kusanagi>Could do that too<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>Not without Travis' permission<br />
*(22:33) <kusanagi>You can nom him without permoission<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>If he doesn't want it, he'd be stuck with it<br />
*(22:33) <mildbeard>he can certainly decline<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>Oh yeah he doesn't have to accept<br />
*(22:33) <kusanagi>he would have to accept or decline the nomination<br />
*(22:33) <Sacha>then do it<br />
*(22:34) <Sacha>So a state needs to nom travis and kusanagi<br />
*(22:34) <mildbeard>I'm hereby nominating kusanagi and travis and sacha for First Officer. *(Sacha stuck her neck out.)<br />
*(22:34) <stubuntu>second <br />
*(22:34) <kusanagi>I accept both nominations for captain and first officer.<br />
*(22:35) <Sacha>I accept, so we just need to shake down Travis and caleb<br />
*(22:35) <Sacha>does anyone else want to go for QM<br />
*(22:35) <Sacha>I am pretty sure that Caleb wants it, we've been talking about it<br />
*(22:36) <Sacha>but competition is always cool<br />
*(22:36) * kusanagi plays the Jeopardy! song<br />
*(22:37) * mildbeard plays "yo ho ho..."<br />
*(22:37) <kusanagi>2 min, and i'll close noms<br />
*(22:37) <mildbeard>I have an impending issue, will you lose quorum if I drop?<br />
*(22:37) <MrSquared>om nom nom<br />
*(22:38) <kusanagi>no, we won't<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>Oh yeah for transparency and everything<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>I may be moving to Canada this Winter<br />
*(22:38) <mildbeard>cool, where?<br />
*(22:38) <Sacha>So I will not be a resident, in case that affects people's votes<br />
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*(22:38) <Sacha>My friend and I are looking at Toronto, she wants to model with a company based there<br />
*(22:39) <QuazarGuy>I'm surprised that CA with 300+ people has no one to offer up<br />
*(22:40) <Sacha>QuazarGuy Same, but i wonder if they are purely focused on state level<br />
*(22:40) <Sacha>which is why not<br />
*(22:40) <QuazarGuy>I think nominations should be opened up beyond IRC<br />
*(22:41) <kusanagi>QuazarGuy, it was mentioned in the meetings and over the SAB list<br />
*(22:41) <kusanagi>a week is long enough.<br />
*(22:41) <QuazarGuy>my contention is that I'm not convinced states are consulting their members on this<br />
*(22:41) <kusanagi>I'm not either<br />
*(22:42) <kusanagi>but how are we to enforce that?<br />
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*(22:42) <Sacha>QuazarGuy I think when we work towards asynchronous meetings it will change but for now a person who doesn't use IRC or actively participate in the USPP in some way would be odd imo<br />
*(22:42) <Sacha>they are officers of the PNC not USPP<br />
*(22:42) <QuazarGuy>I motion to add a page to the site and an announcement on social media of how to nominate and gain a following<br />
*(22:43) <Sacha>I like that, but i think the goal should be next year's elections<br />
*(22:43) <Sacha>Which will be much more planned out than this<br />
*(22:43) <QuazarGuy>I think we could do it this week<br />
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*(22:43) <kusanagi>Sacha, most definitely<br />
*(22:44) <Sacha>QuazarGuy The issue is that people are tired of pushing it back and I don't think that a week is enough time for a random to get a following<br />
*(22:44) <QuazarGuy>I would be willing to help with content of the page and announcements<br />
*(22:44) <Sacha>My only issue is that if they wanted to help they should have gotten involved somehow<br />
*(22:44) <stubuntu>agreed sacha<br />
*(22:44) <Sacha>if they can't make the meetings before, how could they in order to be an officer<br />
*(22:44) <kusanagi>I fully agree with Sacha <br />
*(22:45) <Rush>Guys<br />
*(22:45) <Rush>I'm going to bed, adios<br />
*(22:45) <Sacha>When we break dependence on the IRC, it will be a different story and we should carefully plan out elections and nominations next year.<br />
*(22:45) <Sacha>Goodnight rush<br />
*(22:45) <kusanagi>night rush<br />
*(22:45) <mildbeard>ok adios me too<br />
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*(22:45) <kusanagi>still at quorum<br />
*(22:46) <QuazarGuy>there is a motion<br />
*(22:46) <Sacha>QuazarGuy is that acceptable to you? I will help you plan it and make it for the wiki. If no one seconds.<br />
*(22:46) <kusanagi>Motion failed, sorry<br />
*(22:47) <stubuntu>point of clarification, what was that motion?<br />
*(22:47) <kusanagi>I motion to add a page to the site and an announcement on social media of how to nominate and gain a following<br />
*(22:47) <kusanagi>that was the motion<br />
*(22:47) <stubuntu>thanks<br />
*(22:48) <Sacha>Was the motion to affect this year's election?<br />
*(22:48) <Sacha>Because you would first need to motion to allow nominations until next week<br />
*(22:48) <kusanagi>This is also true<br />
*(22:48) <kusanagi>but it failed<br />
*(22:48) <kusanagi>So..<br />
*(22:48) <Sacha>I don't want to ignore QuazarGUy's feelings just because they are unpopular<br />
*(22:49) <Sacha>Let's work out something that he is comfortable with, I think the only thing that everyone else wants<br />
*(22:49) <kusanagi>it's not being ignored<br />
*(22:49) <Sacha>is to get the elections done next week<br />
*(22:49) <QuazarGuy>it is fine<br />
*(22:49) <kusanagi>and QuazarGuy's motion would have extended the time.<br />
*(22:49) <Sacha>Quazarguy You are sure?<br />
*(22:49) <kusanagi>the motion failed, let's move on. sorry Jeff.<br />
*(22:50) <QuazarGuy>no need to apologize<br />
*(22:50) <Sacha>We could extend the nomination period until Friday, and that would give states plenty of time<br />
*(22:50) <kusanagi>No<br />
*(22:50) <kusanagi>A week is plenty<br />
*(22:50) <Sacha>It was only announced in the meeting and SAB<br />
*(22:50) <Sacha>we did not give it a fair chance<br />
*(22:50) <QuazarGuy>it is WA's fault we weren't aware of nominations being due this week<br />
*(22:51) <kusanagi>it was given a fair chance<br />
*(22:51) <Sacha>QuazarGuy If you are turly comfortable with it, then I will drop it. If not, I know that I can come up with a compromise.<br />
*(22:51) <QuazarGuy>it's fine<br />
*(22:52) <kusanagi>Ok next up is a formation of a press committee<br />
*(22:52) <kusanagi>let's put it simply<br />
*(22:52) <kusanagi>we need one<br />
*(22:52) <kusanagi>we have no press releases going out<br />
*(22:53) <Sacha>Travis with nix it<br />
*(22:53) <Sacha>say be bold<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>LOL<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>how could i have forgotten<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>so I will BE BOOOOOLD<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>and ask that the state reps vote to create it tonight<br />
*(22:53) <QuazarGuy>do we have anyone willing to be part of this committee?<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>Yes, myself<br />
*(22:53) <Sacha>Anyone beside you<br />
*(22:53) <stubuntu>I will as weel<br />
*(22:53) <kusanagi>And anyone and everyone who wants to<br />
*(22:54) <stubuntu>well* <br />
*(22:54) <Sacha>just make a forum post or twitter or something<br />
*(22:54) <Sacha>no need for a vote and I would really dislike doing it when Travis is not here<br />
*(22:54) <Sacha>Because we all know that he would be against it since he nixed two committees the past two weeks<br />
*(22:55) <QuazarGuy>that doesn't mean he'd be against this one<br />
*(22:55) <kusanagi>Being bold<br />
*(22:55) <Sacha>It doesn't, but I wish to wait and find out from him.<br />
*(22:55) <kusanagi>Why?<br />
*(22:55) <kusanagi>Why are we so dependant on an authority figure?<br />
*(22:55) <QuazarGuy>the formation of a committee isn't procedure and doesn't concern him<br />
*(22:56) <kusanagi>Exactly<br />
*(22:56) <Sacha>I have said all I will about my opinion. I will not rise to the bait. If a state wishes to make a motion then they will.<br />
*(22:57) <QuazarGuy>I motion to form a press committee<br />
*(22:57) <kusanagi>Would any state like to make a motion to form a press committee?<br />
*(22:57) <kusanagi>there we go<br />
*(22:57) <kusanagi>Any second?<br />
*(22:57) <OrionSteele>second<br />
*(22:57) <kusanagi>ok, any debate on this or shall we move to vote?<br />
*(22:58) <QuazarGuy>I hope you're up to it kusanagi and stubuntu<br />
*(22:58) <kusanagi>I am<br />
*(22:58) <stubuntu>I am<br />
*(22:58) * kusanagi highfives stubuntu <br />
*(22:58) <kusanagi>go team go<br />
*(22:58) <QuazarGuy>let's vote<br />
*(22:58) <kusanagi>aight, voting on the formation of a press committees<br />
*(22:58) <kusanagi>-s<br />
*(22:59) <stubuntu>* stubuntu recieves highfive<br />
*(22:59) <stubuntu>hm, didn't do that right<br />
*(22:59) <kusanagi>./me<br />
*(22:59) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(22:59) <QuazarGuy>yeah it's i before e except after c<br />
*(22:59) <stubuntu>aye<br />
*(22:59) <QuazarGuy>aye<br />
*(22:59) <kusanagi>QuazarGuy, vote?<br />
*(23:00) <QuazarGuy>did<br />
*(23:00) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(23:00) <kusanagi>oh, oops<br />
*(23:00) <kusanagi>sorry about that<br />
*(23:00) <kusanagi>and calling the vote. the tally, Sacha <br />
*(23:01) <Sacha>Looks like 4<br />
*(23:01) <kusanagi>motion passed, press committee formred<br />
*(23:02) <kusanagi>hooray<br />
*(23:02) * kusanagi throws confetti<br />
*(23:02) <kusanagi>ok, to AOB now<br />
*(23:02) <kusanagi>Sacha, looks like it's mostly you, wanna go over your stuff?<br />
*(23:03) <Sacha>Sure first one is putting a person in charge of being a source of contact for new people<br />
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*(23:04) <Sacha>We have a page on the wiki that is titled 'want to help out' which is great, but there needs to be a person to contact so that the PNC knows about them<br />
*(23:04) <Sacha>or a person to help them get into contact with the right group of people<br />
*(23:04) <kusanagi>officers? someone invoved with pnc?<br />
*(23:04) <Sacha>We can either put a person in charge of it, or add it to an officer's duties<br />
*(23:04) <kusanagi>I don't mind being put down<br />
*(23:04) <Sacha>I would rather it wasn't you honestly<br />
*(23:05) <Sacha>not for personal reasons but I think that telling people to go do the reasearch themself<br />
*(23:05) <kusanagi>no<br />
*(23:05) <Sacha>Will scare people off, so I would personally like someone who is willing to help the new people<br />
*(23:05) <QuazarGuy>that's not an issue for this discussion<br />
*(23:05) <Sacha>that is merely my personal opinion though, which doesn't dictate anything<br />
*(23:05) <Sacha>Of course it is?<br />
*(23:05) <Sacha>We are discussing who to put in charge of it<br />
*(23:06) <QuazarGuy>why should we base the duty on who's in the office?<br />
*(23:06) <Sacha>We don't need to<br />
*(23:06) <Sacha>It was merely one way to do it, I offered picking an individual as well<br />
*(23:06) <kusanagi>I just volunteered for it. I usually know the right people<br />
*(23:06) <QuazarGuy>anyway, I think it makes sense to make this a duty for either the FO or QM<br />
*(23:07) <Sacha>Kusanagi I know you did, which is why I made my response to you volunteering.<br />
*(23:07) <Sacha>QuazarGuy I would be fine with that as well<br />
*(23:07) <QuazarGuy>well we should pick one<br />
*(23:07) <kusanagi>Sacha, can you please act slightly more professional?<br />
*(23:07) <QuazarGuy>QM keeps all the records and should have contacts for everyone necessary<br />
*(23:07) <Sacha>QuazarGuy I was thinking the same thing<br />
*(23:08) <Sacha>On the other hand the FO really isn't doing very much<br />
*(23:08) <QuazarGuy>FO should have contacts for state's officers<br />
*(23:08) <kusanagi>i do<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>lol I'm not asking<br />
*(23:09) <kusanagi>i know<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>The FO is also in charge of general meetings<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>I want to know what others opinions are<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>which is another place where they may be approached for help<br />
*(23:09) <Sacha>So it would make sense to be their duty<br />
*(23:09) <QuazarGuy>how are state's handling this issue?<br />
*(23:10) <Sacha>No idea, orionsteele are you still in?<br />
*(23:10) <OrionSteele>yes<br />
*(23:10) <Sacha>How do you handle new people in CAPP?<br />
*(23:11) <QuazarGuy>well I've been sending people to the secretary/quartermaster<br />
*(23:11) <Sacha>QuazarGuy How?<br />
*(23:11) <OrionSteele>we offer to meet them and invite them to our weekly meetings online. then we try to find someone in their area that can meet them personally and talk<br />
*(23:11) <OrionSteele>we try to set up real conversations with everyone who sends us messages about their interest in being involved<br />
*(23:11) <Sacha>That is a good idea, the last may be difficult, though a phone meeting would be sufficiant<br />
*(23:12) <OrionSteele>yeah or online meetings are fine too<br />
*(23:12) <Sacha>From what I know of what Travis does, he contacts new states and talks to them<br />
*(23:12) <Sacha>it might be good to have a counterpart like that for just new people in general<br />
*(23:12) <Sacha>and I think that contacting them personally is a good idea<br />
*(23:12) <kusanagi>that is great<br />
*(23:13) <QuazarGuy>I think at the national level, it will mostly be relaying<br />
*(23:13) <kusanagi>first an email, giving them info about pirates in the area, then a phone call<br />
*(23:13) <kusanagi>QuazarGuy, yeah, it will be/is<br />
*(23:14) <Sacha>Yeah, i'm partial right now to it being the duty of the first officer<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>Honestly, since it is my point<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>I want to save it until next week and will put it in the forums in the meantime<br />
*(23:15) <Sacha>so i retract it<br />
*(23:15) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(23:15) <kusanagi>neext?<br />
*(23:15) <stubuntu>next<br />
*(23:16) <kusanagi>it's Sacha's points<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>I was working on the wiki today<br />
*(23:16) <kusanagi>you have the floor<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>and i saw the new state guide and the local party organization<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>I want to help flesh them out but i do not have knowledge when it comes to canvassing<br />
*(23:16) <Sacha>I can do the grunt working, typing etc.<br />
*(23:17) <kusanagi>hm<br />
*(23:17) <QuazarGuy>I've been meaning to go over it again<br />
*(23:17) <Sacha>but i need someone to point me in the right direction so I was hoping to have an experienced person volunteer to help me out with it<br />
*(23:17) <kusanagi>yeahm the new state guide needs to be done over.<br />
*(23:17) <stubuntu>i can help you with it<br />
*(23:17) <stubuntu>i'm pretty busy until the 6th though with the election<br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>Wondeful, just email me at belle10152@hotmail.com and it is okay we can wait until after elections<br />
*(23:18) <stubuntu>will do<br />
*(23:18) <Sacha>QuazarGuy if you want to help too just email me, we can likely use the discussion page combined with irc to do it<br />
*(23:18) <QuazarGuy>yep<br />
*(23:19) <Sacha>Okay so the next point comes out of a discussion with Rab about the core values<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>the wording could be clarified to avoid terms like 'post-ideaological' which people may not know<br />
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*(23:20) <QuazarGuy>aren't most of them spawned out of the Pirate Wheel?<br />
*(23:20) <kusanagi>OH LOOK WHO IT IS<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>So my question is should we just explain what we mean in the wiki or should we change the wording?<br />
*(23:20) <kusanagi>QuazarGuy, if i recall correctly, yes<br />
*(23:20) <Sacha>QuazarGuy Ehhh, we don't really stick to it<br />
*(23:20) <kusanagi>I think explaining it out in the wiki is a better and easier option<br />
*(23:21) <QuazarGuy>I would copy as much as is similar<br />
*(23:21) <Sacha>Post idealogical meritocracy isn't on the whee<br />
*(23:21) <Sacha>wheel*<br />
*(23:22) <QuazarGuy>is it similar to something on the wheel?<br />
*(23:22) <Sacha>I think that expaining it in the wiki is good as well but I think I might talk to Rab some more because I don't even know what 'post-idealogical' means<br />
*(23:22) <Sacha>The issue was that phrase specifically which isn't on the wheel<br />
*(23:22) <kusanagi>but that was written in the constitution<br />
*(23:22) <Sacha>Ja, so 'change the wording' = 'amendment'<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>This is just an exploratory discussion<br />
*(23:23) <kusanagi>you're better off explaining it on the wiki for now<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>I agree with that<br />
*(23:23) <kusanagi>if an amendment is needed, so be it<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>I think if it trips up another person we should revisit it though<br />
*(23:23) <QuazarGuy>post-idealogical = after -isms<br />
*(23:23) <kusanagi>yeah<br />
*(23:23) <Sacha>Quazarguy That is what i thought, I will explain that out in the wiki<br />
*(23:24) <QuazarGuy>let's do that then<br />
*(23:24) <QuazarGuy>next?<br />
*(23:25) <kusanagi>Sacha, not to interrupt, but can you mention #uspp-press will be the channel for the press committee in the minutes<br />
*(23:25) <kusanagi>?<br />
*(23:25) <Sacha>sure<br />
*(23:25) <Sacha>Done<br />
*(23:25) <Sacha>Last thing is removing the state reports<br />
*(23:25) <Sacha>Having it in the meeting is pretty pointless imo and just takes up time<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>We could publish it to the front page or to the wiki<br />
*(23:26) <kusanagi>it's a good way for us to evaluate each other<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>The meeting is not the place for evaluating each other<br />
*(23:26) <kusanagi>and right now, the page is undergoing a massive amount of work<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>exactly<br />
*(23:26) <Sacha>so we can just pop it in<br />
*(23:27) <kusanagi>yeah, but for now, can we leave it as-is?<br />
*(23:27) <Sacha>I would really rather not<br />
*(23:27) <Sacha>I want meetings to be as short as possible<br />
*(23:27) <QuazarGuy>I consider reports extraneous to doing business<br />
*(23:27) <Sacha>Same as quazarguy<br />
*(23:28) <kusanagi>I don't think I can just strike reports<br />
*(23:28) <QuazarGuy>they don't affect anything<br />
*(23:28) <QuazarGuy>I would rather they take place outside of meetings<br />
*(23:28) <Sacha>We can just vote to strike reports<br />
*(23:28) <Sacha>We have le sexy forums, we have le sexy email list, we will have le sexy website<br />
*(23:28) <kusanagi>we can<br />
*(23:28) <kusanagi>the site ain't sexy yet<br />
*(23:29) <QuazarGuy>as a temporary solution I propose states send their reports to the quartermaster to compile and distribute<br />
*(23:30) <Sacha>hence ~*will be*~<br />
*(23:30) <Sacha>Frame it as a motion Quazarguy?<br />
*(23:31) <QuazarGuy> I motion states send their reports to the quartermaster to compile and distribute temporarilly until another solution is found and removed from meetings<br />
*(23:31) <Sacha>ping mrsuared orionsteele stubuntu<br />
*(23:32) <Sacha>mrsquared*<br />
*(23:32) <OrionSteele>yes<br />
*(23:32) <QuazarGuy>second?<br />
*(23:32) <kusanagi>do you second, OrionSteele?<br />
*(23:32) <OrionSteele>yes<br />
*(23:32) <OrionSteele>that is fine i second<br />
*(23:33) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(23:33) <kusanagi>further discussion on this, or just go to the vote<br />
*(23:33) <kusanagi>?<br />
*(23:33) <QuazarGuy>vote<br />
*(23:33) <kusanagi>stubuntu, MrSquared <br />
*(23:33) <stubuntu>aye<br />
*(23:33) <MrSquared>vote<br />
*(23:33) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(23:33) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(23:33) <QuazarGuy>aye<br />
*(23:34) <kusanagi>voting on "states send their reports to the quartermaster to compile and distribute temporarilly until another solution is found and removed from meetings"<br />
*(23:34) <kusanagi>now vote<br />
*(23:34) <QuazarGuy>aye<br />
*(23:34) <stubuntu>aye<br />
*(23:34) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(23:34) <kusanagi>OrionSteele?<br />
*(23:36) <OrionSteele>aye<br />
*(23:36) <kusanagi>and calling<br />
*(23:36) <Sacha>4 for<br />
*(23:37) <kusanagi>So I guess what the states will have to do is by Monday have everything send over to Sacha and then she can place it on the agenda/minutes or something?<br />
*(23:37) <Sacha>I am going to make a special section for them on the wiki for now<br />
*(23:37) <kusanagi>that works too<br />
*(23:37) <Sacha>and publish seperately<br />
*(23:37) <Sacha>you have the next point<br />
*(23:38) * kusanagi nods<br />
*(23:38) <kusanagi>yes<br />
*(23:38) <kusanagi>For the agenda for the meetings<br />
*(23:38) <kusanagi>It's usually released about 2 days before the meeting itself<br />
*(23:39) <kusanagi>I would like to ask that everyone have whatever they'd like to add-on finished by Tuesday, or about 24hrs before the meeting<br />
*(23:39) <QuazarGuy>I didn't specify how it needed to be distributed<br />
*(23:40) <Sacha>QuazarGuy it will be sent to QM and I am happy with that so I will send out a Sab email and ask for it. That is what i was planning to do anyway when you said that.<br />
*(23:41) <Sacha>Kusanagi I disagree because I do not understand the point, as long as it is added to the end before it is spoken about there is no reason not to do it even during the meeting<br />
*(23:41) <kusanagi>so everyone knows what's going on<br />
*(23:41) <Sacha>Sometimes people do not think of what they want to say until the meeting of<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>They will know when it is discussed imo<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>i think that is prohibitive<br />
*(23:42) <QuazarGuy>I don't know why meetings and reports are still connected<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>For example i've been adding and deleting things up and until right now<br />
*(23:42) <Sacha>QuazarGuy They will not be<br />
*(23:43) <kusanagi>I'm talking about agenda and aob items<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>kusanagi So am I<br />
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*(23:43) <kusanagi>i was explaining to jeff.<br />
*(23:43) <QuazarGuy>I must<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>Okay<br />
*(23:43) * Rab enters, cape flying<br />
*(23:43) <Sacha>Rab xD hi c:<br />
*(23:44) <QuazarGuy>must've missed it<br />
*(23:44) <kusanagi>Rab, still in meeting<br />
*(23:44) <Sacha>QuazarGuy I clarified to say that I will make a new section on the wiki to put them in, it will be on the front page under that PNC thing<br />
*(23:44) <Rab>hi!<br />
*(23:44) * Rab pulls up chair, adjusts ears wider. gets silent<br />
*(23:44) <Sacha>xD<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>So kusanagi's point<br />
*(23:46) <Sacha>anymore discussion on it or a motion?<br />
*(23:47) <kusanagi>it was just a request<br />
*(23:47) <kusanagi>nothing formal<br />
*(23:47) <Sacha>Okay, I will try to do so in the future but I cannot guarantee<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>That's fine<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>Okay, that seems to be like everything<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>oh wait, no<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>Sacha, one more?<br />
*(23:48) <Sacha>Yup, it was on there before but I deleted it for some reason<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>oh<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>ok<br />
*(23:48) <Sacha>I already sent this in an email but I wanted to say it here<br />
*(23:48) <kusanagi>so that's everything?<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>Nope, I re-added it to discuss<br />
*(23:49) <kusanagi>oh ok<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>well just to lecture really<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>In the PNC a few weeks ago there was a lot of discussion about asynchronous meetings<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>I know you are in favor of it Rab<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>People are using the forums, very few, but they do exist<br />
*(23:49) <Sacha>They looked awesome and Caleb worked hard on them<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>I do not care if you hate forums, please get over it<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>And use them, the only way to make them popular and effective is to use them<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>Bookmark them, check them daily or once a week<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>the new theads and posts light up read<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>Just do it.<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>That's all.<br />
*(23:50) <kusanagi>like nike<br />
*(23:50) <Sacha>Exactly<br />
*(23:51) <stubuntu>lecture absorbed<br />
*(23:51) <MrSquared>swoosh<br />
*(23:51) <Sacha>pirate-party.us/forum in case you didn't know where it was<br />
*(23:51) <Sacha>We can adjourn now if you would like :P<br />
*(23:51) <kusanagi>sure<br />
*(23:51) <Rab>i will try the forums<br />
*(23:52) <kusanagi>motion to adjourn/<br />
*(23:52) <kusanagi>?<br />
*(23:52) <stubuntu>seconded<br />
*(23:52) <kusanagi>no<br />
*(23:52) <kusanagi>make the motion lol<br />
*(23:52) <stubuntu>ah, that was a question<br />
*(23:52) <stubuntu>in that case I move to adjorn<br />
*(23:53) <MrSquared>second<br />
*(23:54) <QuazarGuy>umm....aye<br />
*(23:55) <Sacha>anyone wanna say we can vote nudge kusanagi nudge<br />
*(23:55) <kusanagi>oh yeah<br />
*(23:55) <kusanagi>vote<br />
*(23:55) <kusanagi>nao<br />
*(23:55) <stubuntu>aye<br />
*(23:55) <QuazarGuy>aye<br />
*(23:55) <Rab>aye<br />
*(23:55) <MrSquared>aye<br />
*(23:55) <kusanagi>OrionSteele, <br />
*(23:56) <QuazarGuy>bye quorum<br />
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*(23:56) <kusanagi>bye<br />
*(23:56) <kusanagi>go home<br />
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<div>Tonight was the debate between the two candidates for Captain. The candidates were Travis McCrea (current captain) and Lindsay-Anne Brunner.<br />
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log:<br />
*(21:03) <teamcoltra_>I would like to officially call this meeting/debate to order and do a role cal<br />
*(21:03) <teamcoltra_>call*<br />
*(21:03) <kusanagi>in a few minutes<br />
*(21:03) <sacha>What is the moderator channel and I suggest using #uspp-debate to discuss the debates because it looks like uspp is full of other conversation<br />
*(21:03) <passstab>teamcoltra, thats very convenient<br />
*(21:03) <passstab>:)<br />
*(21:04) <teamcoltra_>I switched computers and my other computer seems to be doing better<br />
*(21:04) <teamcoltra_>so I don't know whats up, but anyway... hopefully this works.<br />
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*(21:04) <kusanagi>Have you tried turning it off and on again?<br />
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*(21:04) - ChanServ set mode: +o TravisMcCrea <br />
*(21:05) <mildbeard>how about that, using #uspp-debate for public discussion and use #uspp-mod if you want to direct a question at the moderator.<br />
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*(21:05) - ChanServ set mode: +o TravisMcCrea <br />
*(21:05) - TravisMcCrea set mode: +o mildbeard <br />
*(21:05) <TravisMcCrea>I tried to hop you but this server is stupid<br />
*(21:05) <sacha>perfect<br />
*(21:05) <passstab>are candidate not allowed in those channels?<br />
*(21:05) <mildbeard>ooh, I have an @<br />
*(21:06) <TravisMcCrea>Since this will be an unconventional meeting, I would like to pass the chair of this meeting to mildbeard <br />
*(21:06) <TravisMcCrea>any objections?<br />
*(21:06) <kusanagi>noen<br />
*(21:06) <kusanagi>none<br />
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*(21:06) <mildbeard>OK thanks. <br />
*(21:07) - TravisMcCrea set mode: -o TravisMcCrea <br />
*(21:07) <mildbeard>Does anyone have comments on whether candidates should be allowed in the #uspp-mod channel? <br />
*(21:07) <kusanagi>!deop<br />
*(21:07) - ChanServ set mode: -o kusanagi <br />
*(21:07) <mildbeard>I think they should be allowed in the #uspp-debate channel. <br />
*(21:08) <passstab>i think they shouldn't be in either -debate or -mod<br />
*(21:08) <kusanagi>I don't think we should be in mod, but debate is okay<br />
*(21:08) <kusanagi>there is a drinking game tonight lol<br />
*(21:08) <CalebLangeslag>Perhaps someone should link to the SAB archive link of the email. :P<br />
*(21:08) <sacha>I think they can be in debate but not mod<br />
*(21:08) <TravisMcCrea>Well in Canada *(where mildbeard is said to walk on water) and people know me as the great one... people are allowed to be in #uspp-debate<br />
*(21:09) <passstab>there should be at a no candidates backchannel<br />
*(21:09) <TravisMcCrea>*(did I get most of the rounds started?)<br />
*(21:09) <mildbeard>OK, well they're going to be pretty busy anyway, and I do plan to post the logs. Open, transparent government. <br />
*(21:09) <kusanagi>yes sir<br />
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*(21:09) <mildbeard>If anyone has something private, then they can chat me. <br />
*(21:10) <mildbeard>OK are both candidates ready to start?<br />
*(21:10) <TravisMcCrea>yes<br />
*(21:10) * passstab sets up an unofficial #nocandidates<br />
*(21:10) <kusanagi>I love the name<br />
*(21:10) <kusanagi>yes<br />
*(21:10) <kusanagi>should I use my real name as my handle?<br />
*(21:11) <mildbeard>You can if you want. <br />
*(21:11) - kusanagi is now known as LindsayBrunner<br />
*(21:11) <mildbeard>We should select who goes first. I will flip a coin. Lindsay can call it. <br />
*(21:12) <mildbeard>It's flipped...heads or tails?<br />
*(21:12) <LindsayBrunner>tails<br />
*(21:12) <mildbeard>it was heads. <br />
*(21:13) <LindsayBrunner>Aw<br />
*(21:13) <mildbeard>So I want to ask Travis first and then go alternately. <br />
*(21:13) <mildbeard> 1. What is your vision for the future of the Pirate Party? What direction would you take us in? <br />
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*(21:14) <mildbeard>answer and let me know when you're done. <br />
*(21:14) <TravisMcCrea>writing ;)<br />
*(21:14) <TravisMcCrea>Well there are two parts to my vision for the future of the party. I want to focus our attention locally, not just state-local but city-local. We need to have pirates who are in the same city meeting up with each other, talking and getting involved block by block. True grass roots efforts *(contenued)<br />
*(21:16) <TravisMcCrea>Though I also want this party to stay strong in it's roots. We are a social democratic party, I have had plenty of conversations with Falkvinge the founder of the Pirate movement and he agrees that there are basic things that our party must stand for, things like healthcare and equality. Taking care of our fellow Americans should be the most patriotic thing we can do and the Pirate Party should not back down from that. We may lose some people who had diff<br />
*(21:16) <TravisMcCrea>create a solid base of supporters who share a common vision, a vision that is shared by our fellow international pirates.<br />
*(21:16) <TravisMcCrea>Done<br />
*(21:16) <mildbeard>Lindsay, same question?<br />
*(21:18) <LindsayBrunner>My vision for the future of USPP is to try to get more state parties off of the ground, ansd not unlike Travis' view, I agree in having more locally based "crews" to spread the word about us. In turn, those local crews *(divided by electoral district or county) grow the state party, which in turn grows USPP. <br />
*(21:20) <LindsayBrunner>On the national level though, the PNC needs to work not just bottom-up but both top-down and bottom-up. The current way of how the PNC approaches things doesn't seem to be working.<br />
*(21:20) <LindsayBrunner>I believe that this approach will help both the States and National active memberships to grow, which in both areas we are lacking.<br />
*(21:21) <LindsayBrunner>As far as social democracy goes, I do not see how that fits into our constitution at present, so I will not be leading the party in that direction. We are America, not Sweden.<br />
*(21:21) <LindsayBrunner>finished.<br />
*(21:21) <TravisMcCrea>Are we going to get to rebut?<br />
*(21:21) <mildbeard>Travis, any comments on that? <br />
*(21:21) <mildbeard>yeah but 2 min<br />
*(21:23) <TravisMcCrea>Yeah, I am curious if her top down vision for the PNC would be like the NYPP which has been fairly inactive for a very long time... especially in such a progressive state. I would also like to point out htat our constituion promotes science based decision making, which is all I am promoting... and the social democracies of the world have shown themselves to be some of the most efficent and make their populations happiest<br />
*(21:24) <mildbeard>that it?<br />
*(21:24) <TravisMcCrea>yes sorry<br />
*(21:24) <mildbeard>Lindsay, any response or rebuttal?<br />
*(21:26) <LindsayBrunner>yes. NYPP has been mostly inactive because of personal issues both Zac and I have been going through which has interfered with our work. There was a press release posted today, actually. My view for the top down would be simple: we make decisions together for how things should be in the states, and the state reps go back to their fellow members andwork. I also must add that not many state parties have great amounts of memb<br />
*(21:26) <LindsayBrunner>ers, and that is a necessity for more activity <br />
*(21:27) <mildbeard>that it?<br />
*(21:27) <LindsayBrunner>No<br />
*(21:27) <LindsayBrunner>sorry<br />
*(21:27) <mildbeard>sorry<br />
*(21:28) <LindsayBrunner>Policy for the USPP would be decided nationally, then brought back to the states to implement. Hopefully the PNC can come up with more recruitment related materials as well.<br />
*(21:28) <LindsayBrunner>Done.<br />
*(21:28) <mildbeard>Immediately after asking the first question I noticed I had skipped the opening statement. So please accept my apologies. Let's do it now. <br />
*(21:29) <mildbeard>Travis got the first question, so Lindsay... Do you have anything you'd like to say in opening the debate? 5 min. <br />
*(21:33) <LindsayBrunner>Hah, sure. Well, many of you already know me, I'm the present Administrative Officer of NYPP and current First Officer of the PNC. I believe that how things have been going in USPP aren't doing as well as they should be, and I hope to bring in a fresher look at running the national party. I became involved with NYPP in May of 2010, and became its Operations Officer in January 2011. After a great amount of inactivity, I ste<br />
*(21:33) <LindsayBrunner>pped up and started leading NYPP in December of last year, and officially took the title of AO in May.<br />
*(21:33) <LindsayBrunner>jcont<br />
*(21:35) <LindsayBrunner>I believe I am able to take the role of Captain from my experience leading NYPP, and I look forward to the coming year for USPP/<br />
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*(21:36) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(21:36) <QuazarGuy>Jeff Talada, WA<br />
*(21:36) <mildbeard>Travis? 5 min<br />
*(21:37) <TravisMcCrea>I think the person going second should have less time, since we also get the same time that the first person had<br />
*(21:38) <mildbeard>that would be nice ...<br />
*(21:38) <LindsayBrunner>I took an extra minute<br />
*(21:38) <LindsayBrunner>you can have that<br />
*(21:39) <TravisMcCrea>First, I want to thank you all for sticking with me throughout my first term as captain of the PNC. This hasn't been all rainbows and puppies, I know that… I have made mistakes. Some of those I still need to work on, I know that I can be overly confident sometimes. Some of you guys don't like me as a person, I am not the easiest person to get along with.<br />
*(21:39) <TravisMcCrea>That being said, I have a vision for what this party can be. I live and breathe Pirate Party. I have been involved at every level of this party *(and the movement as a whole), I have been on the streets canvassing *(even organizing NYPPs first canvassing outing); I have run campaigns; I went to PPUK's PirateCon so that I could learn from how successful Pirate Parties are run in FPTP systems; I am involved at a very ideological level helping blog on Rick Fal<br />
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*(21:39) <TravisMcCrea> deep convsersations with people about what being a Pirate means. <br />
*(21:39) <TravisMcCrea>We need to be strong, I want to have a party where we are not taking pot shots at eachother on IRC or elsewhere. I see us as a team, a team that needs to be out there to support each other. I feel I can offer that. However, regardless of anything else -- I am excited for this next year because i am so fucking happy to be a pirate.<br />
*(21:39) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(21:40) <mildbeard>So then I'll ask Travis q2.<br />
*(21:40) <mildbeard>Actually I think you've both addressed, so q3.<br />
*(21:40) <mildbeard>3. What do you see as the role of the Captain? Is the Captain the face of the pirate party? What is the Captain's role as a public figure? <br />
*(21:41) <TravisMcCrea>Can we have the question that we answered? <br />
*(21:41) <TravisMcCrea>Not to answer just to see ;)<br />
*(21:41) <mildbeard>2. What do you see as the role of the PNC? What should be the limits of the PNC? In what direction do you think we should move? What do you feel is the role of the USPP in working with the states? What is better left to individual states? <br />
*(21:43) <TravisMcCrea>Okay Question 3 then - I think that the Captain of this party should be the CEO of the Party, with being a focus on being the face of the Party. The CEO is controlled by the PNC *(in business "the board") but s/he also acts in good faith basd on the mandate of the PNC. The FO should be the COO and handle the operations of the party. The two should be a team. <br />
*(21:44) <TravisMcCrea>I think the most recent bylaw covers rolls and responsibilities accurately in my view.<br />
*(21:44) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
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*(21:44) <mildbeard>OK Lindsay?<br />
*(21:45) <LindsayBrunner>Well, it's defined as the administration role of the PNC as per constitution, but some sort of<br />
*(21:45) <LindsayBrunner>social role in the bylaws. <br />
*(21:46) <LindsayBrunner>However, throwing both those aside: I feel the Captain should be an actual leader beside PNC <br />
*(21:46) <LindsayBrunner>meetings. The Captain will be the person who speaks to media, and will be the face of the United States Pirate Party. That, just in itself, is a major responsibility. We cannot allow someone embroiled in controversy to head out most important position our party has. <br />
*(21:46) <LindsayBrunner>I don't understand where Mr McCrea is pulling the business references from, this is supposed to be us working all working together.<br />
*(21:47) <LindsayBrunner>The Captain, inside the party, would be -THE- final person to go to. Just like the POTUS,<br />
*(21:47) <LindsayBrunner>the buck stops there. The Captain more or less will be held responsible if the USPP crashes<br />
*(21:47) <LindsayBrunner>and burns or takes off swimmingly, regardless of how things happened.<br />
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*(21:47) <LindsayBrunner>We need someone to lead, not someone who's awol<br />
*(21:48) <LindsayBrunner>I've been personally involved in projects the PNC has done, while McCrea works like a shadow, claiming he's too busy to get involved in everything.<br />
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*(21:49) <LindsayBrunner>I don't think everyone is free enough to get involved in everything, but at least work in public, not behind closed doors.<br />
*(21:50) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(21:50) <mildbeard>Travis?<br />
*(21:50) <TravisMcCrea>How could Liz *(Ms Brunner?) say on one hand that decisions need to go through the Captain and that the buck stops with them, but then also say that they should be only a mouthpiece of the party and not get engaged in the politics. It's true, I believe that it's the captain's role to not be in the drama, but that's the reason why decision making should be done by the decision makers *(the PNC) and the Captain should simply support the work that the party i<br />
*(21:52) <TravisMcCrea>DOes that mean the captain can't be involved in helping the party draft bylaws, be part of different committees? No, of course not. However, at least for me -- I have tried to just let the committees do their thing. When they ask for my help, I provide it. I was asked to help out with a press release today, so I provided input. I have given my input on the new site design. However, if everyone can create a committee at will, and I want people to feel emp<br />
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*(21:52) <TravisMcCrea>to feel they need to come have me hold their hand or give them my permission. <br />
*(21:53) <TravisMcCrea>When you are working on a single project, then yes it may seem that I am not doing much. However, I am participating every committee and group in the party... When you ned help, just ask. <br />
*(21:53) <TravisMcCrea>As Liz said, the Captain should stay out of the drama and such -- and just act to support the party. <br />
*(21:53) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(21:54) <mildbeard>Travis, it looks like your answers are getting cut off. Please put them in smaller chunks. <br />
*(21:54) <mildbeard>Lindsay, response?<br />
*(21:54) <TravisMcCrea>mildbeard: anything in particular that got cut off?<br />
*(21:54) <mildbeard>simply support the work that the party i<br />
*(21:55) <mildbeard>, and I want people to feel emp<br />
*(21:55) <TravisMcCrea>party is doing ... <br />
*(21:55) <TravisMcCrea>feel empowered to take action on their own, I don't want them<br />
*(21:55) <TravisMcCrea>*(were the ends of those two lines for the record)<br />
*(21:58) <mildbeard>Waiting for a rebuttal from Lindsay.<br />
*(21:58) <LindsayBrunner>Actually, if I recall correctly, the bylaws state that the captain handles member disputes, so the captain's role as of now is partially handling drama. I did not say the captain should be involved in that, either, you're drawing a false conclusion. I also did not say that the Captain is just a mouthpiece, I said the captain should be an actual leader, as well as our media person. <br />
*(21:59) <TravisMcCrea>Sorry I misread: "We cannot allow someone embroiled in controversy to head out most important position our party has." ?<br />
*(22:00) <mildbeard>TravisMcCrea, please don't interrupt.<br />
*(22:01) <LindsayBrunner>You didn't just give input on the press release this afternoon, you were nearly a tyrant in arguing about social democratic views and stating that you were the chief person of press. "Embroiled in controversy" refers to TUEBL and your problems with author Dakota Cassidy and others.<br />
*(22:01) <LindsayBrunner>Calling others who may not like our views "backwoods" and "deranged" are deplorable.<br />
*(22:02) <LindsayBrunner>done.<br />
*(22:02) <mildbeard>I am not calling time or anything, but both of you are going over the amount of time. This is important, but I also want to get to more questions. <br />
*(22:02) <mildbeard>Lindsay, what are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? And what do you think is the biggest difference between you and your opponent? <br />
*(22:02) <TravisMcCrea>mildbeard: <br />
*(22:03) <TravisMcCrea>meh I wont bother replying. <br />
*(22:03) <LindsayBrunner>I'm sorry, slow typing tonight.<br />
*(22:04) <LindsayBrunner>My greatest strengths are being adaptable and learning quickly. I have no problems adjusting to different situations and can make major decisions swiftly and with ease. My biggest weakness, probably indecisiveness when it comes to smaller issues.<br />
*(22:05) <LindsayBrunner>The biggest difference between Mr McCrea and myself? probably how we see the party's goals and views<br />
*(22:05) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:05) <mildbeard>Travis, same question? 2 min.<br />
*(22:06) <TravisMcCrea>Liz and I have major differences in the methods which we would like to use to be chair of this party. My vision is one of solidarity, and a party where we work together. Liz's history includes becoming leader of NYPP and then kicking out / banning the previous guy. <br />
*(22:06) <TravisMcCrea>I don't think we should be banning anyone from our party, and we should be using our differences as strengths. <br />
*(22:06) <TravisMcCrea>I hate even highlighting the differences between Liz and I because she is such a great person<br />
*(22:07) <TravisMcCrea>and I think all the pot shots and bickering is only hurting this party.<br />
*(22:08) <TravisMcCrea>Weaknesses? I have a lot of them. However, I am also willing to learn from them, and try to make them better. I might always be an arrogant ass, but maybe I can be better at controlling it.<br />
*(22:08) <TravisMcCrea>done<br />
*(22:08) <mildbeard>Lindsay, 1 min for a response. <br />
*(22:09) <LindsayBrunner>Mr Emerson also gave our sites away, and did nothing for the party, then claiming we all supported Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Marines. If anything, he needed to be removed for abusing the party name in such a way. You say that we shouldn't be making pot-shots, but you just did that.. Emerson is also an anarchist.<br />
*(22:10) <LindsayBrunner>he was extremely damaging to NYPP and now it's starting to flourish.<br />
*(22:10) <LindsayBrunner>In fact, we're running a local candidate next year.<br />
*(22:11) <LindsayBrunner>That would have never happened otherwise.<br />
*(22:11) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:11) <mildbeard>Travis, 1 min?<br />
*(22:12) <TravisMcCrea>I will only say that I believe that every person should have a view. Also just a reminder to the PNC that we are only reading two viewpoints of a situation both equally biased. <br />
*(22:13) <TravisMcCrea>*(done, btw)<br />
*(22:13) <mildbeard>OK then next question to Travis.<br />
*(22:14) <mildbeard>What do we have going for us that the Greens, Libertarians and other parties don't? How can we be the party that beats "winner take all" elections? How do we go from being a third party to a first party? <br />
*(22:15) <TravisMcCrea>Before I came back to the USPP we seemed to be going on a path of a strong national USPP. This was the same mistake that we had made before, and I hoped to fix it. Now most of the PNC agree that we need to be focusing on the states and on local elections. Obviously the Greens have the dissadvantage that people have been voting against them for 30 years but <br />
*(22:15) <TravisMcCrea>but also the Pirate Party is going to prove that our policies work on a local level.<br />
*(22:16) <TravisMcCrea>We are going to get city council members elected, get school boards and courts and what not and influence policy bottom up. The cool thing about our country is that we could take a majority government in a city council, and institute things like proportional representation or whatnot.<br />
*(22:17) <TravisMcCrea>I think that once we are able to show the world our policies in action, and it's only going to take that one election... we will snowball to success. The United States can have 3 parties in a FPTP system, all the other FPTP countries have 3+ parties.<br />
*(22:17) <TravisMcCrea>I think we also need to encourage other parties. If there is a strong conservative district, and we only have 20 pirates there... then having them help the constitutional party win a seat is still helping getting minor parties on the ballot and in seats.<br />
*(22:18) <TravisMcCrea>We need to say "Pirates Can Win" and any person of a minor party who wins a seat gives confidence to the voter that their vote wont be wasted on a third party<br />
*(22:19) <TravisMcCrea>This has been my vision from day one and I have spent hours on the phone with differnet parties asking htem how I can help, they all have my number. Every time when a person gets on IRC and says they want to start a party in their area I help them look up the laws and regulations<br />
*(22:19) <TravisMcCrea>Let them know they have a friend here and that we can do this together.<br />
*(22:19) <TravisMcCrea>That's how the Pirate Party will succeed<br />
*(22:19) <TravisMcCrea><done><br />
*(22:19) <mildbeard>Lindsay, same question? <br />
*(22:20) <LindsayBrunner>Mr McCrea is right, we need to first work on a local level, which right now is one of the major things going for us. We can work with other parties to bring in better styles of representation. We're also the party of the Internet, younger people like us, and we have worldwide support literally just a click away. The Greens and Libs didn't have that when they started, so we're fully able to at least TRY what other countries<br />
*(22:20) <LindsayBrunner>' Pirates did. To win, we would NEED to work with other parties, like the Greens and Libs. <br />
*(22:21) <LindsayBrunner>It won't be one election, it very well may be a few, but with significant effort, it is completely attainable for the Pirate Party to become a major party. it's not something that will happen overnight, it will take a lot of effort from a lot of people. <br />
*(22:22) <LindsayBrunner>I would like to see the creation of regional Pirate alliances to help with canvassing and campaigning. It's something MAPP has done in NH.<br />
*(22:22) <LindsayBrunner>We're all in this together, that's for sure.<br />
*(22:23) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>Travis, any comments?<br />
*(22:23) <mildbeard>you can respond to anything else too<br />
*(22:24) <TravisMcCrea>I don't think this question is very controversial. Pirates will be sucessful. <br />
*(22:24) <TravisMcCrea>I just feel my plan is best to get us there.<br />
*(22:24) <TravisMcCrea>done<br />
*(22:25) <mildbeard>Lindsay, any comments on this or another question?<br />
*(22:25) <LindsayBrunner>I agree in the nature of the question with Mr McCrea, but I disagree with his plan.<br />
*(22:26) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:26) <mildbeard>OK I think that brings us to the town hall portion of the debate. <br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>I will take questions from several people who are not participating in the debate. <br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>I sent out an email with suggestions from some of the people who sent me questions.<br />
*(22:27) <mildbeard>The idea is you get to ask a direct question of one of the candidates.<br />
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*(22:27) <mildbeard>They will have 2 minutes to reply and the other candidate gets 2 min to comment. <br />
*(22:28) <mildbeard>If you ask on #uspp-mod then I will call on you. or you can PM me.<br />
*(22:28) <mildbeard>The first question goes to sacha.<br />
*(22:28) <sacha>Sweet<br />
*(22:29) <mildbeard>you have 1 min.<br />
*(22:29) <sacha>First one is for Travis, do you plan for us to stick to our Falkvinge roots or do you see the USPP forming their own unique identity?<br />
*(22:30) <TravisMcCrea>I feel they are based in our Swedish roots, that's why we became pirates. If that wasn't the reason then we have to say "oh we liked the name and never researched what the movement is about" <br />
*(22:30) <TravisMcCrea>That being said, America has it's own unique set of challenges that we must overcome. I am not saying let's all pray to Falkvinge his holliness<br />
*(22:31) <TravisMcCrea>I am saying that using the Pirate Wheel as a commonly accepted base of who we are gives us an identity to build off of and allows us to keep a strong base, and not make the mistake other parties have made by pandering to inflate their numbers<br />
*(22:31) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(22:31) <mildbeard>Lindsay, any comments on this question? <br />
*(22:32) <LindsayBrunner>Yes, though I agree with much of the Pirate Wheel, I feel that we will wind up forming our own identity, as each country has done for the most part.<br />
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*(22:33) <LindsayBrunner>Other countries' parties have taken the wheel, remixed it a bit, and used their version of that to work, as each area will have different needs and problems to conquer<br />
*(22:33) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:33) <mildbeard>The next question goes to passstab<br />
*(22:33) <mildbeard>You have to ask a specific candidate<br />
*(22:34) <passstab>why?<br />
*(22:34) <mildbeard>It's part of the format. the other candidate also comments.<br />
*(22:34) <passstab>how do you important do you feel software freedom is to the party? LindsayBrunner <br />
*(22:36) <LindsayBrunner>It's important, most assuredly. I believe that the government should be using F/LOSS, and that voting machines and their software do not deserve to be trade secrets. There is no reason for gambling machines out of all things to be highly regulated while voting machings are pretty much anything goes.<br />
*(22:36) <LindsayBrunner>As for level of importance, I would say it's medium-high importance.<br />
*(22:37) <LindsayBrunner>son<br />
*(22:37) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:37) <mildbeard>Travis, same question to you?<br />
*(22:37) <TravisMcCrea>There is no escaping that probably 90% of us are nerds, and also come from the libre culture movement so free software obviously is an important idea to promote. However, I don't think this is the RMS *(Richard Stallman) Party -- and free software is great, when it works. <br />
*(22:37) <TravisMcCrea>We should be promoting government use F/LOSS but I also think that pragmatism is a big part of our party as well and we shouldn't go without something important just because we can't use GPL software<br />
*(22:37) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(22:38) <mildbeard>The next question comes from OrionSteele.<br />
*(22:38) <OrionSteele>ok i have a question for Linday, but i want to say that both sides have made good arguments during this debate <br />
*(22:39) <mildbeard>agreed<br />
*(22:39) <OrionSteele>Lindsay: My question relates to what sort of resources will be used to help support state parties. There are 2 things that stick out in my mind about Travis: First, he has quit his job to do pirate party stuff and has committed a lot of time and money to travel to other parties and help local groups personally<br />
*(22:40) <OrionSteele>Second, he has some personal connections that have helped our personal state *(like reaching out to cory doctorow and falkvinge to talk to us). do you have a response to this or can you say anything about your specific resources to help individual states?<br />
*(22:42) <LindsayBrunner>Thanks, Orion. despite quitting his job, he doesn't seem to be doing much in the form of actual leadership. We need the leadership to provide the structure, not a personality-driven force. I am able to commit the time, money is a slight issue right now but I expect that to change soon.<br />
*(22:43) <LindsayBrunner>He's been asked to help out with the Idaho Pirates, and has not provided any names, despite claiming he had. <br />
*(22:44) <LindsayBrunner>I'm not a writer for Falkvinge, but I know him as well. I'm sure if I asked he would be more than willing to give information and resources.<br />
*(22:44) <LindsayBrunner>I've devoted a lot of time as well to the party, and my fiance can vouch for that.<br />
*(22:45) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:45) <mildbeard>Travis, any comments?<br />
*(22:46) <TravisMcCrea>This question was about what we can provide and it obviously touched on what I have already done to help... I want to connect people and use my resources. I can travel at will, help people whenever. I think the fact that Liz is a mom is a wonderful thing and I am glad that she is able to support, but I am always available at a moments notice. <br />
*(22:47) <TravisMcCrea>While liz can bring a lot to the table, I don't think her answer highlighted what she could bring that I can't<br />
*(22:47) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(22:47) <mildbeard>Next question goes to sacha. Then I will ask the following one on behalf of someone who's not here.<br />
*(22:48) <sacha>okay<br />
*(22:48) <sacha>My question is for Liz<br />
*(22:48) <sacha>Liz, you have said that you want to incorporate top-down structure with the PNC<br />
*(22:48) <sacha>what specific and concrete plans do you have to do that or are you still planning?<br />
*(22:50) <LindsayBrunner>I want to introduce policy working groups, for starters.<br />
*(22:50) <LindsayBrunner>a lot of us are unsure where we stand on many things, and having a working group will provide a top-down policy, to go back to state level<br />
*(22:51) <LindsayBrunner>another thing I would like to do is organize a national cavassing day. if the states choose, we could go out in force and talk to people offline, as there's only so much we can do behind a computer screen. <br />
*(22:52) <LindsayBrunner>Again, nothing here would be forced, but it would create a united front for the states to adopt similar policies.<br />
*(22:53) <LindsayBrunner>I would also like to see regional coalitions created, which would organize an effort in a specific region and help the less-able states.<br />
*(22:53) <LindsayBrunner>Last, I would set up a structure for funding these projects.<br />
*(22:54) <LindsayBrunner>My current proposal is that a yearly "donation" would be given by member states to be used toward these projects and helping state parties come online.<br />
*(22:54) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(22:54) <mildbeard>Travis?<br />
*(22:55) <TravisMcCrea>Unless her policy has changed, I was told my efforts on the Buffalo Pirate Party *(where we hold weekly in-person meetings and have fliers put up around Buffalo) would be excluded from the New York Pirate Party if I didn't come to their IRC meetings. Because I want to be bold and try my own method, I am being punished. I can't help but think this would be applied to the national party as well.<br />
*(22:55) <TravisMcCrea>*(yes I said be bold, take a drink)<br />
*(22:56) <TravisMcCrea>I might need to have a little more strength as a leader, instead of simply representing the party, but this seems like a stiffling of innovation and individual development. <br />
*(22:56) <TravisMcCrea>Which might hurt the USPP<br />
*(22:56) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(22:57) <mildbeard>I will ask the next question from the list on email. <br />
*(22:57) <mildbeard>travis, why should we elect you Captain even though you are from another country? And if elected, will you step down from y our post in the Canada PP?<br />
*(22:58) <TravisMcCrea>I am not from another country, I was born in the United States, I am an American. When I took my role as Captain of the United States Pirate Party I stepped down in Canada.<br />
*(22:58) <TravisMcCrea>The only position I still have is more of an honorary one which makes me their international representative, since I also participate actively in PPI<br />
*(22:59) <TravisMcCrea>I don't believe I will step down as their international representative, unless required. I am also not going to stop helping Canadians just because I am the Captain of the Pirate Party, in a month or so I am going to Toronto to help them start up Ontario Pirates. <br />
*(22:59) <TravisMcCrea>We are all in this together.<br />
*(23:00) <TravisMcCrea>However, if anything gets in my way of being an effective leader of this party... I would resign in a heartbeat... because it's my passion to help this party.<br />
*(23:00) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(23:00) <mildbeard>Lindsay, an comments?<br />
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*(23:02) <LindsayBrunner>Well, the question bears asking, if you're going to be hopping all over and creating more Pirate Parties outside the US, how will Travis be able to handle that, the burden of PPI AND being captain? In response to Travis' previous comment, he wanted to use NYPP resources for a group that would not benefit NYPP, and make it harder to unite Western New York and the New York City metro area.<br />
*(23:02) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(23:03) <mildbeard>I believe sacha has one.<br />
*(23:03) <TravisMcCrea>may I ask one real fast<br />
*(23:03) <sacha>Okay so my question is about how to deal with creation of content in the PP<br />
*(23:03) <TravisMcCrea>which follow ups with this one?<br />
*(23:03) <sacha>Well um I am okay with that if you want mildbeard<br />
*(23:04) <mildbeard>sacha it's your turn.<br />
*(23:04) <sacha>Okay then I will go<br />
*(23:05) <sacha>Liz, how much flexibility will you give to people who want to create content. Do you favor a strict or more flexible hierarchy of power?<br />
*(23:07) <LindsayBrunner>I plan on giving a great amount of flexibility, but with restrictions of the "brand name" of USPP to keep a consistent and professional message<br />
*(23:07) <LindsayBrunner>Policies should be CC0, so anyone else can adopt them<br />
*(23:08) <LindsayBrunner>for other stuff, CC-BY so USPP is attributed to the work.<br />
*(23:09) <LindsayBrunner>I want as many people to contribute as possible, bu twe will need standards or a guideline so the name doesn't get diluted or abused.<br />
*(23:09) <LindsayBrunner>donew<br />
*(23:09) <mildbeard>OK Travis, any comment on this question? <br />
*(23:10) <TravisMcCrea>Liz and I agree on having a very liberal process for content creation while ensuring restrictions are put on content to protect our brand -- recently I appointed 5 individuals who can each *(without needing additional approval) approve content for the USPP site. I think adding layers of red tape while we are this young discourages innovation and participation.<br />
*(23:10) <TravisMcCrea>Done.<br />
*(23:10) <mildbeard>Travis has requested to ask Lindsay a direct question. I am going to allow it, but in fairness I will next give Lindsay an opportunity to ask him a direct question, if she likes. <br />
*(23:10) <mildbeard>Travis, ask away. <br />
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*(23:11) <TravisMcCrea>Liz asked the question of me being able to ballance my responsibilities in the PPI and as leader of the party. Do you plan to step down as leader of NYPP if you win chair? As you will soon have a job, have a child, AND are both the leader of NYPP and the PNC?<br />
*(23:14) <LindsayBrunner>I did. No, at present I do not plan to step down from my position as Administrative Officer of NYPP. I have been able in the past to balance a full-time job, a full-time course load at college, and my son, and NYPP is extremely flexible and substantially less work than even one course in school. <br />
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*(23:15) <LindsayBrunner>I will be more than able to adjust and schedule to work on PNC matters, NYPP matters, and any other personal items that may be arising.<br />
*(23:16) <LindsayBrunner>Done.<br />
*(23:16) <mildbeard>Travis, any comments?<br />
*(23:16) <TravisMcCrea>but to be clear, I would not be able to handle a one every couple of month trip to Toronto to have a meeting with fellow pirates? Even though I work full time for the Pirate Party? <br />
*(23:17) <TravisMcCrea>I guess thats more rhetorical.<br />
*(23:18) <TravisMcCrea>It's not my intention to sling mud, I just feel this was an important fact. I admire the amount of work Liz does.<br />
*(23:18) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(23:18) <mildbeard>Lindsay, do you have a direct question you would like to ask Travis?<br />
*(23:18) <LindsayBrunner>I'm trying to word it more clearly<br />
*(23:18) <mildbeard>ok np<br />
*(23:21) <LindsayBrunner>It seems you tended to focus on the western european pirates in many things, so would you be planning to work with Pirates from Eastern Europe *(ie Poland, Russia) and in the Pacific?<br />
*(23:21) <LindsayBrunner>Especially the Pacific, with TPP impending<br />
*(23:22) <TravisMcCrea>My focus is building relationships with other FPTP nations. I am already close with Loz Kay of PPUK and I call the leader of PPCA one of my best friends... I want to do more to reach out to Australia, I know that their delegates and myself don't always see eye to eye<br />
*(23:23) <TravisMcCrea>With TPP and such we certainly need to be building those friendships and doing joint campaigns<br />
*(23:23) <TravisMcCrea>Once we have the new website it will make it much easier to make pages and do campaigns and blog posts all from the site<br />
*(23:24) <TravisMcCrea>So yes, I want to work with all countries including ones who we have immediate interest in having relationships with<br />
*(23:24) <TravisMcCrea>but I think the most important bonds are the long term ones with other FPTP countries <br />
*(23:24) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(23:24) <mildbeard>Lindsay, any comments?<br />
*(23:25) <TravisMcCrea>Also as a member of PPI I usually learn about these international issues faster than most other people, which is an advantage to our party.<br />
*(23:25) <LindsayBrunner>mildbeard, are you to allow that addition comment?<br />
*(23:26) <mildbeard>I'm going to ignore it. It's now your turn to comment. <br />
*(23:27) <LindsayBrunner>Anyway, I'm not sure if Travis realizes that TPP negotiations are on the verge of closing and that much of the opportunity to work together on that is gone.<br />
*(23:27) <LindsayBrunner>If it is even still a possibility.<br />
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*(23:28) <LindsayBrunner>If you found out about TPP faster than others, as it is an international issue, there is no reason for inaction on the matter. It's simply unacceptable.<br />
*(23:28) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(23:28) <mildbeard>OK that brings us to closing statements.<br />
*(23:29) <mildbeard>Travis won the initial coin flip and got to go first earlier, so Lindsay will make the first closing statement. <br />
*(23:29) <LindsayBrunner>sure<br />
*(23:29) <mildbeard>Lindsay, please feel free to say anything you want. You have 5 min.<br />
*(23:33) <LindsayBrunner>In closing, I would like to thank everyone for coming and to thank my opponent, Travis, for the great debate. I hope you all are more able to see our differences now. We need strong leadership to provide the structure we need right now to grow this party further. At least to me, we need a major overhaul in the PNC. I don't want to see this party fail again. I have invested a lot of time into NYPP and the PNC, and want this<br />
*(23:33) <LindsayBrunner> to succeed as much as everyone.<br />
*(23:34) <LindsayBrunner>Being the captain is not something I take lightly at all, and I would be truly honored to be in that position.<br />
*(23:35) <LindsayBrunner>I hope all of you vote based on issues, and for cliques.<br />
*(23:35) <LindsayBrunner>not for cliques<br />
*(23:36) <LindsayBrunner>Regardless, 2013 will be a big year for the USPP, and I hope to lead it into a new chapter that starts off with a bang.<br />
*(23:36) <LindsayBrunner>done<br />
*(23:36) <mildbeard>Travis, closing statement 5 min.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>As you can see this is an important election and there are stark differences between Liz and myself. I know at points tonight I have come across as "mud slinging" and that makes me sad because I want nothing more than to have a united party.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>However, stating those differences was not intended to be a slinging of mud, but rather a presentation of facts that I believe to be true, and me leaving it up to you to decide.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>This party means everything to me, I moved back to the United States, I left my job, and I did everything I could to make this party better.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>I don't want your state's vote because you feel bad that I am so invested in this party, and vote for me with pitty though. I want you to vote for me because I have shown my dedication, I contenue to show it… <br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>When I get overly defensive over the party, it's not the yells of a spoiled child who had someone else play with his bricks. They are more likened to a parent who is being over protective. This party means everything to me and I just want whats best for it.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>There are other candidates who I would have loved to see people vote for -- our moderator being one of them. Since they did not run, I promise in my next term to listen to them more. Consult with them. Learn what they are doing right so I can do that too.<br />
*(23:40) <TravisMcCrea>I have a vision for this party, many of the things we believe as a party today are based on suggestions that I made when I returned to this new incarnation of the party. I want to share this journey with you guys *(my best friends and colleges).<br />
*(23:41) <TravisMcCrea>We are all in this together, and I plan on making 2013 the year that we put pirates on the map.<br />
*(23:41) <TravisMcCrea>Let's kick ass guys. #VotePirate #argh <br />
*(23:41) <TravisMcCrea></done><br />
*(23:41) <mildbeard>OK that concludes the organized debate. I'd like to thank both participants for generally adhering to the rules...<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>...and thank everyone else for doing a remarkable job of respecting the rules and not talking over the candidates...<br />
*(23:42) <TravisMcCrea>What good is a debate if we don't make the rules... guidelines... especialy in the Pirate Party. <br />
*(23:42) <TravisMcCrea>Thank you mildbeard for moderating you were fair and awesome.<br />
*(23:42) <mildbeard>thanks<br />
*(23:42) <LindsayBrunner>Yes, thank you, Erik.<br />
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=Attendees =<br />
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==Members of the PNC ==<br />
===Attending===<br />
*Jeff Talada, WA<br />
*Jarod Smith, GA<br />
*Orion Steel, CA<br />
*Bradley Hall, FL<br />
*Stuart James, WI<br />
*Erik Zoltan, MA<br />
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===Excused===<br />
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===Unexcused===<br />
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===Probation===<br />
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== At Large Members of the PNC ==<br />
*Francis Klein, WI<br />
*Caleb Langeslag, MN<br />
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==Officers of the PNC ==<br />
*Travis McCrea, NY, Captain<br />
*Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY, First Officer<br />
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=Proceedings=<br />
Meeting closed at: 10:27pm EDT by Lindsay<br />
*Meeting chaired by Travis/Lindsay<br />
*Secretary for this meeting is Jeff<br />
*Quorum is established: 6 out of 8 Members present<br />
*Logging Enabled: Yes<br />
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==Review of previous minutes ==<br />
http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_11/7/12<br />
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=Reports=<br />
== Short Report From Committees ==<br />
===IT Committee===<br />
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===Press Committee===<br />
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=Agenda Items =<br />
*Elections<br />
**Motion to decide all elections in which there are fewer than 3 candidates as a simple FPTP vote for a single candidate, with all other provisions of the constitutions still in effect.<br />
***6 for, at-large for<br />
**Captain - Votes (At-large are the last four)<br />
***jsdis Travis<br />
***sd;fl Lindsay<br />
***ieops Lindsay<br />
***ncips Travis<br />
***imeis Lindsay<br />
***jduem Travis<br />
***omste Lindsay<br />
***umvit Travis<br />
***ovnei Lindsay<br />
***trums abstain<br />
**Motion to postpone election of Quartermaster until next week (Nov. 21, 2012)<br />
***4 for<br />
**Motion to postpone election of First Officer until next week (Nov. 21, 2012)<br />
***3 for, at-large for<br />
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*Voting for Captain<br />
*Voting for First Officer<br />
*Voting for Quartermaster<br />
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*Next meeting: 11/21/12 at 9PM EDT<br />
*Meeting closed: 10:27pm EDT<br />
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===Member States (Primary Representative, Secondary Representative)===<br />
*California (Orion Steele, Max Bugrov)<br />
*Florida (Bradley Hall)<br />
*Georgia (Jarod Smith)<br />
*Massachusetts (Erik Zoltan)<br />
*New York (Zacqary Green, Lindsay-Anne Brunner)<br />
*Oregon (Kyle DeVore)<br />
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*Wisconsin (Joseph T. Klein, Megan Cochran)<br />
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*[[Pirate National Committee (PNC)/Policies|Policies]]<br />
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GET INVOLVED!<br />
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The United States Pirate Party always needs more help. We are officially registered in two states (Massachusetts and Florida) and are working to be officially registered in every other state. Several states have a Pirate Party presense and need help to be set up by residents of those states. The other states need help and assistance as well.<br />
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Websites to reach the USPP:<br />
http://us.pirate.is<br />
http://pirate-party.us<br />
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Currently we hold meetings Tuesday evenings at 6:00 PM PST / 9:00 PM EST at http://wa.pirate.is/getinvolved/chat If you have your own IRC client you can use the following server irc.pirateirc.net port 6667 (or 6697 for SSL) and channel #uspp. <br />
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All are welcome to all meetings.<br />
We can also be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/USPirateParty <br />
We may also be found on Twitter under the name @USPirates<br />
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We are also looking for submissions for future editions of No Safe Harbor. For more information, contact brad.hall@pirate-party.us<br />
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=References for Assassinating Citizens=<br />
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# Washington Post, Judge Dismisses Targeted-Killing Suit,December 8th,2010. Retrieved September 30th, 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703296604576005391675065166.html?mod=googlenews_wsj<br />
# US Supreme Court Center, Ohio v. Reiner on petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio,532 U.S. 17 (2001). Retrieved September 30th, 2011 http://supreme.justia.com/us/532/17/case.html<br />
# Washington Post, Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaki,September 30th, 2011. Retrieved September 30th,2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/aulaqi-killing-reignites-debate-on-limits-of-executive-power/2011/09/30/gIQAx1bUAL_story.html<br />
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<br />
=References for Parable of the Pasture=<br />
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# Albionmonitor.net, Background on BIA Suit. http://www.albionmonitor.com/0209a/0209a-404.html<br />
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<br />
=References for Fluid Democracy=<br />
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#Bainbridge, William Sims. 1986. Dimensions of Science Fiction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. <br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 1991. Goals in Space: American Values and the Future of Technology. Albany, New York: State University of New #York Press.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 1992. Social Research Methods and Statistics: A Computer-Assisted Introduction. Belmont, California: Wadsworth. <br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 1994. "Values." Pp. 4888-4892 in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, edited by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson. Oxford: Pergamon.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2000. "New Technologies for the Social Sciences." Pp. 111-126 in Social Sciences for a Digital World, edited by Marc Renaud. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2003. “Privacy and Property on the Net: Research Questions.” Science 302: 1686-1687.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2004. “The Future of the Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions.” Pp. 307-324 in Society Online: The Internet in Context, edited by P. N. Howard and S. Jones. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. <br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2007. "Expanding the Use of the Internet in Religious Research." Review of Religious Research 49(1): 7-20.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2009a. “Motivations for Space Exploration.” Futures 41:514-522.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2009b. “Space: The Final Frontier.” Futures 41: 511-513.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims (editor). 2010a. Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual. London: Springer.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2010b. The Warcraft Civilization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.<br />
#Bainbridge, William Sims. 2011. “Peer Review.” Pp. 389-396 in Leadership in Science and Technology, edited by W. S. Bainbridge. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.<br />
#Basu, Chumki, Haym Hirsh, and William Cohen. 1998. "Recommendation as Classification: Using Social and Content-Based Information in Recommendation." Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Madison, Wisconsin. <br />
#Bohannon, John. 2008. “Scientists Invade Azeroth.” Science 320:1592.<br />
#Bohannon, John. 2011. "Meeting for Peer Review at a Resort that’s Virtually Free." Science 331: 27.<br />
#Börner, Katy. 2010. Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.<br />
#Börner, Katy. 2011. “Network Science: Theory, Tools, and Practice.” Pp 49-59 in Leadership in Science and Technology, edited by W. S. #Bainbridge. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.<br />
#Canny, John. 2002. "Collaborative Filtering with Privacy via Factor Analysis.” Pp. 238-245 in Proceedings of the 25th Annual International #ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM. <br />
#Durkheim, Emile. 1897. Suicide. New York: Free Press 1951.<br />
#Ganz-Brown, Carole A. 1998. “Electronic Information Markets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.” The Journal of World Intellectual Property 1: 465–493.<br />
#Herlocker, Jonathan L., Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terveen, and John T. Riedl. 2004. "Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems." ACM Transactions on Information Systems 22:5-53. <br />
#Howard, Philip N. 2011. The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam. New York: Oxford University Press.<br />
#Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston, Beacon Press.<br />
#Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1927. Sex and Repression in Savage Society. New York: Harcourt, Brace.<br />
#Merton, Robert K. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie.” Pp. 185-214 in Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press 1968.<br />
#National Research Council. 2000. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington, DC, 2000: National Academy Press. <br />
#Page, Lawrence, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd. 1998. “The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.” Technical Report, Stanford InfoLab.<br />
#Parsons, Talcott, and Edward A. Shils (eds.). 1951. Toward a General Theory of Action. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.<br />
#Smelser, Neil J. 1962. Theory of Collective Behavior. New York: Free Press.<br />
#Tonn, Bruce, and Feldman, David. 1995. "Non-Spatial Government." Futures 27: 11-36.<br />
#Witte, James C., Lisa M. Amoroso, and Philip E. N. Howard. 2000. “Method and Representation in Internet-based Survey Tools: Mobility, #Community, and Cultural Identity in Survey2000.” Social Science Computer Review 18: 179-195.<br />
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==Web Pages==<br />
*http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Liquid_Democracy; accessed and translated, October 21, 2011.<br />
*http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize<br />
*http://www.blackhawksguild.com/index.php?name=FAQ&cat=1#11<br />
*http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm<br />
*http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/system/goals.pdf<br />
*http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/system/software.htm<br />
*http://www.tva.com/abouttva/history.htm<br />
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=References for Privitizing Life=<br />
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# Washington Post, To own the human genome, 1998; P. Cohen, New Scientist; T.Wilkie, Independent (London), 1995.<br />
# J. Gillis,Washington Post, 1999.<br />
# D. Bollier, Silent Theft.<br />
# F. Bowring, Science, seeds and cyborgs.<br />
# D. Charles, Lords of the harvest, p. 185.<br />
# F. Bowring, Science, seeds and cyborgs.<br />
# P. Pringle, Food, Inc.; A. Duffy, Ottawa Citizen, 1998.<br />
# NOW with Bill Moyers, Seeds of conflict.<br />
# T.McGirk, Time (international edition, Asia); V. Shiva, Biopiracy; N. Roht-Arriaza, Borrowed power, p. 259.<br />
# V. Shiva, Protect or plunder?<br />
# Ibid.<br />
# P. Pringle, Food, Inc.; K. Dawkins, Gene wars.<br />
# K. Dawkins, Gene wars; P. Pringle, Food, Inc.; S. Shulman, Owning the future, p. 110; K. E. Maskus, Intellectual property rights in the global economy.<br />
# E. H.Wirtén, No trespassing.<br />
# P. Drahos with J. Braithwaite, Information feudalism, p. 10.<br />
# K. E. Maskus, Intellectual property rights in the global economy; V. Shiva, Protect or plunder?; P. Drahos with J. Braithwaite, Information feudalism.<br />
# F. Bowring, Science, seeds and cyborgs.<br />
# S.Meyer, Paradoxes of fame.<br />
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=References for Killing The Corporate Person= <br />
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# 1 U.S.C. §1<br />
# Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010)<br />
# "Fatalities Associated With Crash Induced Fuel Leakage and Fires," by E.S. Grush and C.S. Saundy, Environmental and Safety Engineering (1973)<br />
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=References for No Safe Quarter=<br />
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# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew<br />
# http://rt.com/usa/news/harwood-intellistreets-hills-farmington-321/<br />
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=References for History of Copyright=<br />
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*https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Censorship_in_France#To_the_18th_century<br />
*http://questioncopyright.org/promise<br />
*http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/11/FC74<br />
*https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mary_I_of_England<br />
*https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers<br />
*http://copyriot.se/2008/04/08/what-the-ifpi-tries-to-conceal-about-its-origins-in-fascist-italy/<br />
* http://translate.google.com/translatejs=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.expressen.se/kultur/1.1384757/upphovsrota<br />
*http://www.amazon.com/Information-Feudalism-Owns-Knowledge-Economy/dp/1595581227/ref=tmm_pap_title_0/176-5202348-4305869<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_1640<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_Order_of_1643<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entick_v_Carrington<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause<br />
*http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/promote_progess.htm<br />
*http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/10/06/thomas-jefferson-on-patents-and-freedom-of-ideas/<br />
*http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html<br />
*http://falkvinge.net/2011/01/21/there-are-three-parties-to-copyright/<br />
*http://falkvinge.net/2011/02/08/history-of-copyright-part-4-the-us-and-libraries/<br />
*http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labour_Organization<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal)<br />
*http://torrentfreak.com/do-you-prefer-copyright-or-the-right-to-talk-in-private-110121/<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATT<br />
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMp3<br />
*http://falkvinge.net/2011/02/07/copyright-as-a-fundamentalist-religion/<br />
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=References for Pirate=<br />
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# I am grateful to Peter DiMauro for pointing me to this extraordinary history. See also Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs, 87–93, which details Edison’s “adventures” with copyright and patent.<br />
# J. A. Aberdeen, Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent MotionPicture Producers (Cobblestone Entertainment, 2000) and expanded texts posted at “The Edison Movie Monopoly: The Motion Picture Patents Company vs. the Independent Outlaws,” available at link the link listed below. For a discussion of the economic motive behind both these limits and the limits imposed by Victor on phonographs, see Randal C. Picker, “From Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the Propertization of Copyright” (September 2002), University of Chicago Law School, James M. Olin Program in Law and Economics,Working Paper No. 159.<br />
http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm<br />
# Marc Wanamaker, “The First Studios,” The Silents Majority, archived at http://free-culture.cc/notes/12.pdf.<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright: Hearings on S. 6330 and H.R. 19853 Before the ( Joint) Committees on Patents, 59th Cong. 59, 1st sess. (1906) (statement of Senator Alfred B. Kittredge, of South Dakota, chairman), reprinted in Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act, E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 223 (statement of Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association).<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 226 (statementof Nathan Burkan, attorney for the Music Publishers Association).<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 23 (statement of John Philip Sousa, composer).<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 283–84 (statement of Albert Walker, representative of the Auto-Music Perforating Company of New York).<br />
# To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 376 (prepared memorandum of Philip Mauro, general patent counsel of the American # Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 2499, S. 2900, H.R. 243, and H.R. 11794 Before the ( Joint) Committee on Patents, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 217 (1908) (statement of Senator Reed Smoot, chairman), reprinted in Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act, E. Fulton Brylawski and Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).<br />
# Copyright Law Revision: Report to Accompany H.R. 2512, House Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong., 1st sess., House Document no. 83, 66 (8 March 1967). I am grateful to Glenn Brown for drawing my attention to this report.<br />
# See 17 United States Code, sections 106 and 110. At the beginning, record companies printed “Not Licensed for Radio Broadcast” and other messages purporting to restrict the ability to play a record on a radio station. Judge Learned Hand rejected the argument that a warning attached to a record might restrict the rights of the radio station. See RCA Manufacturing Co. v. Whiteman, 114 F. 2d 86 (2nd Cir. 1940). See also Randal C. Picker, “From Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the Propertization of Copyright,” University of Chicago Law Review 70 (2003): 281.<br />
# Copyright Law Revision -CATV, 116 (statement of Douglas A. Anello, general counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters).<br />
# Copyright Law Revision -CATV, 126 (statement of Ernest W. Jennes, general counsel of the Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.).<br />
# Copyright Law Revision -CATV, 169 (joint statement of Arthur B.Krim, president of United Artists Corp., and John Sinn, president of United Artists Television, Inc.).<br />
# Copyright Law Revision -CATV, 209 (statement of Charlton Heston, president of the Screen Actors Guild).<br />
# Copyright Law Revision -CATV, 216 (statement of Edwin M. Zimmerman, acting assistant attorney general).<br />
# See, for example,National Music Publisher’s Association, The Engine of Free Expression: Copyright on the Internet -The Myth of Free Information, available at http://www.nmpa.org/music101/copyrights.asp. “The threat of piracy -the use of someone else’s creative work without permission or compensation -has grown with the Internet.”<br />
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=Questions About Copyright=<br />
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#http://intellectualeconomy.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/coalition-of-manga-publishers/<br />
#http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act<br />
#http://intellectualeconomy.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/a-story-from-a-few-days-ago/<br />
#http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm<br />
#http://www.crimeandpunishment.net/FL/chart.html<br />
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# J. Shreeve, The genome war, p. 363.<br />
# The offenders: Hank Thompson’s “Wild Side of Life”; the Carter Family’s “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes”; Roy Acuff ’s “Great Speckled Bird”; Kitty Wells’s “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”; Reno and Smiley’s “I’m Using My Bible as a Roadmap”; and Townes Van Zant’s “Heavenly Houseboat Blues.”(I’ve since discovered many more.)<br />
# J. Klein,Woody Guthrie, p. 120.<br />
# Ibid., p. 82.<br />
# S. Fishman, The public domain.<br />
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No one becomes an expert in a field by reading just one book, no matter how good it is. Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of books that we feel you would enjoy if you enjoyed this one. Also, some of the below listed books may be either freely available from the author's website, or be released under a Creative Commons license. Many of the CC licensed books may be found at the United States Pirate Party Library, found online at http://wiki.pirate.is/index.php?title=Library. We are always looking for more books to read. <br />
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These books cover a range of topics, some of which were not covered in this book.<br />
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*Access Denied edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain<br />
*Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine<br />
*Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella<br />
*Arts, Inc. by Bill Ivey<br />
*Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Common As Air by Lewis Hyde<br />
*Content by Cory Doctorow<br />
*Context by Cory Doctorow<br />
*Digitize This Book by Gary Hall<br />
*Edited Clean Version by Raiford Guins<br />
*Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky<br />
*Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner<br />
*Free by Chris Anderson<br />
*Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Freedom of Expression by Kembew McLeod<br />
*From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst<br />
*Gridlock Economy by Michael Heller<br />
*Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right) (Finnish) by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala<br />
*Little Brother by Cory Doctorow<br />
*Macrowikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams<br />
*Mashed Up by Aram Sinnreich<br />
*Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars by William Patry<br />
*Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson<br />
*No Law by David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell<br />
*Piracy by Adrian Johns<br />
*Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business by the ACLU of North Carolina <br />
*Reality Hunger by David Shields<br />
*Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age by the Personal Democracy Press<br />
*Remix by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner<br />
*The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations by Ahmad Kamal<br />
*The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig<br />
*The Long Tail by Chris Anderson<br />
*The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason<br />
*The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman<br />
*The Shallows by Nicholas Carr<br />
*The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman<br />
*Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler<br />
*Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams<br />
*What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly<br />
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KEMBREW MCLEOD<br />
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“This gene is your gene,” sang Francis Collins, playfully reworking an old Woody Guthrie song, with electric guitar in hand. “This gene is my gene,” he continued, backed up by the lumbering roar of a middle-aged rock band. This was no ordinary club gig; he was singing at a post–press conference party for scientists. Collins was the man who headed up the Human Genome Project (HGP), funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he was trying to make an ethical and political point. Since the mid-1990s, Collins' HGP had raced against a private effort to map the human genome in order to make our genetic information freely accessible, not privately owned and patented by a handful of corporations. Any scientist could examine HGP’s genome map for free - unlike the Celera Genomics’ privately owned draft, which was published with strings attached.[1] Over the din, Collins chided his competitors in song by genetically modifying Guthrie’s lyrics:<br />
This draft is your draft, this draft is my draft, <br />
And it’s a free draft, no charge to see draft.<br />
It’s our instruction book, so come on, have a look,<br />
This draft was made for you and me<br />
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Dr. Francis Collins reworked “This Land Is Your Land” to argue that genetic information should be freely available to the scientific community. However, his use of that Woody Guthrie song was sadly ironic, on multiple levels. “This Land Is Your Land” is a song written by an unabashed socialist as a paean to communal property: “This land was made for you and me.” Another key lyric goes, “A sign was painted ‘Private Property’ but on the backside it didn’t say nothin’.” The folk-song tradition from which Guthrie emerged valued the open borrowing of lyrics and melodies; culture was meant to be freely created and re-created in a democratic, participatory way.<br />
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If this was so, then why was Collins' use of “This Land Is Your Land” painfully ironic? Even though it was written over sixty years ago, the song is, to quote Woody Guthrie himself, still “private property.” Guthrie based the melody of “This Land Is Your Land” on the Carter Family’s 1928 recording “Little Darlin’ Pal of Mine,” which in turn was derived from a nineteenth-century gospel song, “Oh, My Loving Brother.”[2] This means that, in the twenty-first century, the publishing company that owns the late Guthrie’s music can earn money from a song about communal property, which was itself based on a tune that is over a century old. Far more disturbing, Guthrie’s publishing company prevents musicians from releasing altered, updated lyrical versions of that song. We won’t be hearing Collins' mutated “This Gene Is Your Gene” anytime soon. <br />
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What’s the connection, you might be wondering, between folk music and genetic research? Although obviously very different endeavors, the practitioners of both used to value the open sharing of information (i.e., melodies or scientific data). In these communities, “texts” were often considered common property, but today this concept has been fundamentally altered by the process of privatization, that is, the belief that shared public resources - sometimes referred to by economists and social scientists as the commons - can be better managed by private industries. And in recent years, there’s been a significant erosion of both the cultural commons and the genetic commons, resulting in a shrinking of the public domain. The fact that folk melodies and lyrics are now privately owned rather than shared resources is a depressing example of how our cultural commons is being fenced off. As for the genetic commons, the patenting of human and plant genes is but the furthest logical extension of privatization - taken at times to illogical lengths.<br />
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MAKING FOLK MUSIC<br />
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One year, I was taking a shuttle van back from the airport, glad to be back in Iowa City but exhausted from the Christmas holidays and feeling mute. However, I was alone with a driver who obviously wanted to chat, so I answered his questions about what I do. I mentioned my interest in music, which got the full attention of Jim Bazzell - the grizzled, fifty-something man behind the wheel. It turned out that Bazzell’s father had been in a band called Jimmy and the Westerners, one of the many country-music combos that roamed the land in the 1940s and 1950s. They once performed at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and had their own radio show, though the group mainly made a living playing in honky-tonk bars around the Southwest.“My dad couldn’t read music and would play by ear,” says Bazzell. “I remember my mom would scramble to write down song lyrics as they came on the radio.” He chuckles, “Of course, she’d get a lot of ’em wrong because she couldn’t write as fast as they sang, so my dad would just make up the lyrics he didn’t know.” <br />
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This kind of improvisation used to be a common practice, especially in folk and country circles where lyrics and melodies were treated as raw materials that could be reshaped and molded in the moment. When writing my last book, for instance, I happened to be listening to a lot of old country music, and I noticed that six country songs shared the same vocal melody, including Hank Thompson’s “Wild Side of Life.”[2] In his exhaustively researched book, Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll, Nick Toches documented that the melody these songs used was both “ancient and British.” It’s unlikely that the writers of these songs simply ran out of melodic ideas and decided to pillage someone else’s music. It wasn’t artistic laziness. Rather, it’s probable that these six country songwriters, the majority of whom grew up during the first half of the twentieth century, felt comfortable borrowing folk melodies. They probably didn’t think twice about it.<br />
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This was also a time when more people knew how to play musical instruments, like Bazzell’s family, which performed small gigs at local hospitals and the like. His dad was proficient on fiddle and guitar -“any stringed instrument, really,” Jim says - and the kids learned to play at an early age, as did his mom. The stories he told reminded me of the song “Daddy Sang Bass,” which Carl Perkins wrote and Johnny Cash popularized. “Mama sang tenor,” the song’s chorus continued. “Me and little brother would join right in there.” It describes how the singer’s parents are now in heaven and how one day he’ll rejoin the family circle in song, concluding, “No, the circle won’t be broken...”<br />
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The chorus makes an overt reference to an important folk song that dates back to the nineteenth century: “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” which the Carter Family made famous. Starting in the 1930s, Woody Guthrie drew direct inspiration from a lot of songs associated with the Carter Family, recycling their melodies to write his own pro-union songs. For example, Guthrie wrote in his journal of song ideas: “Tune of ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’ -will the union stay unbroken. Needed: a sassy tune for a scab song.” <br />
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Guthrie also discovered that a Baptist hymn performed by the Carter Family, “This World Is Not My Home,” was popular in migrant farm worker camps, but he felt the lyrics were counterproductive politically. The song didn’t deal with the day-to-day miseries forced upon the workers by the rich and instead told them they’d be rewarded for their patience in the next life:<br />
This world is not my home<br />
I’m just a-passing through<br />
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue<br />
The angels beckon me<br />
From heaven’s open door<br />
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.<br />
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The hymn could be understood to be telling workers to accept hunger and pain and not fight back. This angered Guthrie, so he mocked and parodied the original - keeping the melody and reworking the words to comment on the harsh material conditions many suffered through. “I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-ramblin’ round,” he sang, talking about being a homeless, wandering worker who gets hassled by the police, rather than a subservient, spiritual traveler waiting for an afterlife door prize. Instead of looking to heaven - because “I can’t feel at home in this world anymore” - Guthrie wryly arrived at his song’s punch line: “I ain’t got no home in this world anymore.”[3]<br />
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In 1940 Guthrie was bombarded by Irving Berlin’s jingoistic “God Bless America,” which goes, in part, “From the mountains to the prairies / to the oceans white with foam / God bless America, my home sweet home.” The irritated folk singer wrote a response that originally went, “From California to the New York Island / From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters / God blessed America for me.” (Guthrie later changed the last line to “This land was made for you and me.”) Continuing with his anti-privatization theme, in another version of this famous song Guthrie wrote:<br />
As I was walkin’ - I saw a sign there<br />
And that sign said - no trespassin’<br />
But on the other side . . . it didn’t say nothin’!<br />
Now that side was made for you and me!<br />
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He set the lyrics to a beautiful melody he learned from the Carter Family, giving birth to one of the most enduring (and endearing) folk songs of all time. Guthrie’s approach is a great example of how appropriation - stealing, borrowing, whatever you want to call it - is a creative act that can have a powerful impact. Before Guthrie, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies, borrowed from popular melodies for their radical tunes, which were published and popularized in the Little Red Songbook. These songs also parodied religious hymns, such as “In the Sweet By-and-By,” which was changed to, “You will eat, by and by.”[4]<br />
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For Guthrie and many other folk musicians, music was politics. Guthrie was affiliated closely with the labor movement, which inspired many of his greatest songs; these songs, in turn, motivated members of the movement during trying times. That’s why Guthrie famously scrawled on his guitar, “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Appropriation is an important method that creative people have used to comment on the world for years, from the radical Dada art of the early twentieth century to the beats and rhymes of hip-hop artists today. Guthrie drew from the culture that surrounded him and transformed, reworked, and remixed it in order to write moving songs that inspired the working class to fight for a dignified life. Instead of passively consuming and regurgitating the Tin Pan Alley songs that were popular during the day, Guthrie and other folk singers created culture in an attempt to change the world around them. They were truly part of a counterculture, not an over-the-counter culture.<br />
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Curious about the copyright status of Guthrie’s decades-old music, I called up Woody Guthrie Publishing and spoke to a very nice gentleman named Michael Smith, the general manager of the organization. He was clearly familiar with the folk-song tradition and obviously knowledgeable about Guthrie, but he nevertheless had a lot of trouble accepting the idea that copyright extension was a bad thing for art and culture. I was surprised when Smith told me that the song-publishing company that owns Guthrie’s music denies recording artists permission to adapt his lyrics. And I was shocked when Smith defended the actions of the company, called The Richmond Organization (TRO), even after I pointed out that Guthrie often altered other songwriters’ lyrics. “Well,” Smith explained, “he admitted to stealing, but at the time that Woody was writing . . .”He paused. “I mean, things have changed from Woody’s time.”<br />
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They certainly have. During the 2004 election season, a year after I spoke to Michael Smith, a small-time team of cartoonists posted a Guthrie-invoking political parody on their Web site. Not surprisingly, TRO threatened to sue. The animated short portrayed G.W. Bush and John Kerry singing a goofy ditty to the tune of “This Land Is Your Land,” where Bush said, “You’re a liberal sissy,” Kerry replied, “You’re a right wing nut job,” and they sang together, “This land will surely vote for me.” Guthrie’s copyright managers didn’t think it was funny at all. “This puts a completely different spin on the song,” TRO’s Kathryn Ostien told CNN. “The damage to the song is huge.” Perhaps more damage is done to Guthrie’s legacy by practicing such an aggressive form of copyright zealotry. <br />
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“If someone changed a lyric in Woody’s time,” said Michael Smith, “chances are it wasn’t going to be recorded and it was just spread through campfire singing, you know, family-time singing and stuff like that. You know, now you can create your own CD at home and distribute it any way you want to, and so the dissemination is a lot broader, a lot faster, and can be a lot more detrimental to the integrity of the song.”Detrimental to the integrity of the song? I pressed him further on Guthrie’s own alterations of others’ songs and asked what Woody would think of TRO locking up his folksong catalog. “The answer to that is, you know, ‘Hey, you’re going to have to ask him, because we have a duty,’ ” Smith said. “We don’t know what Woody would have wanted - we can’t tell.”<br />
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Soon Michael Smith began to make a little more sense to me - at least economic sense. “If you allow multiple rewrites to occur, then people will think it’s in the public domain, and then you have a hard time pressing people to prove to them that it’s not in the public domain.” Then the publishers can no longer generate revenue from it. That a company can still make money off “This Land Is Your Land” is exactly the type of thing I believe Woody Guthrie would not have wanted. Even worse, that TRO prevents musicians from releasing altered, updated versions of his music probably makes Guthrie roll in his grave. But don’t trust me; listen to the man himself. When Guthrie was still alive, for instance, Bess Lomax Hawes told him that his song “Union Maid” had gone into the oral tradition, as folklorists call it.<br />
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“It was part of the cultural landscape, no longer even associated with him,” said Hawes, the daughter of the famous song collector and archivist Alan Lomax.“He answered, ‘If that were true, it would be the greatest honor of my life.’ ”[5] In a written statement attached to a published copy of his lyrics for “This Land Is Your Land,” Guthrie made clear his belief that it should be understood as communal property. “This song is Copyrighted in US,” he wrote, “under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.” Notice that he mentioned the song’s copyright lasted twenty-eight years, though the term was later lengthened.<br />
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Also note that Guthrie said, “We wrote it” not “I wrote it,” something that indicates Guthrie didn’t see himself as the song’s sole author. Since much of the song’s power comes from that lovely melody passed down to him, how could he? In light of Guthrie’s view, how sad it is that others continue to taint this socialist musician’s ideals by keeping his songs private property, turning them into a lucrative revenue stream rather than a shareable part of our common cultural heritage. If Woody Guthrie had to make his art under the overly restrictive policies his song-publishing company imposes on today’s musicians, it would have been very hard for him to make his music at all. In some cases it would have been impossible, for “things have changed.”<br />
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In a dramatic turn of events, Ludlow Music, the subsidiary of TRO that controls Guthrie’s most famous copyrights, backed off from its legal threats against JibJab.com’s parody. This was after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) -a nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties online - came to the Web site’s rescue, providing legal counsel. What made the aftermath of the JibJab.com flap remarkable wasn’t merely that the copyright bullying ended. More interesting was the discovery by EFF senior intellectual property attorney Fred von Lohmann that, according to his research, “This Land Is Your Land” has been in the public domain since 1973! He writes:<br />
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Fact#1: Guthrie wrote the song in 1940. At that time, the term of copyright was twenty-eight years, renewable once for an additional twenty-eight years. Under the relevant law, the copyright term for a song begins when the song is published as sheet music. (Just performing it is not enough to trigger the clock.) <br />
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Fact #2: A search of Copyright Office records shows that the copyright wasn’t registered until 1956, and Ludlow filed for a renewal in 1984. <br />
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Fact #3: Thanks to tips provided by musicologists who heard about this story, we discovered that Guthrie published and sold the sheet music for “This Land Is Your Land” in a pamphlet in 1945. An original copy of this mimeograph was located for us by generous volunteers who visited the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This means that the copyright in the song expired in 1973, twenty-eight years after Guthrie published the sheet music. Ludlow’s attempted renewal in 1984 was eleven years tardy, which means the classic Guthrie song is in the public domain. (I’ll note that Ludlow disputes this, although I’ve not heard any credible explanation from them.) <br />
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So Guthrie’s original joins “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Amazing Grace,” and Beethoven’s Symphonies in the public domain. Come to think of it, now that “This Land Is Your Land” is in the public domain, can we make it our national anthem? That would be the most fitting ending of all.<br />
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Because art isn’t made from thin air, the existence of a large and thriving public domain enriches the quality and diversity of creative expression. It’s an important resource used by creative people to make new works, such as the musicals Les Misérables (based on the nineteenth-century novel by Victor Hugo) and West Side Story (based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet).[6] The public domain also promotes artistic freedom of expression®, because it eliminates the rigid control some copyright owners exercise over the context in which their works appear. For instance, Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas were tightly controlled by the D’Oyly Carte Opera, which required that all performances be staged exactly as the originals were. Not a note could change. But when the copyrights were released into the public domain the musicals were freed from the shackles of artistic mummification.[7]<br />
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Disney - which strongly lobbied for the Bono Act - made billions of dollars recycling “Snow White,” “Pinocchio,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and many other old stories and fables. Like Guthrie, it would have been much harder for Walt Disney to legally make his fortune if he had to work under the intellectual-property laws his corporate heirs advocate. In his dissenting opinion in the challenge to the Bono Act, which the Supreme Court upheld, Justice Stephen Breyer argued that this law threatens the endangered ecosystem that is our cultural commons. “I cannot find,” wrote Breyer, “any constitutionally legitimate, copyrighted-related way in which the statute will benefit the public. Indeed, in respect to existing works, the serious public harm and the virtually nonexistent public benefit could not be more clear.”<br />
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Copyright protectionists defend the Bono Act by pointing out that Congress was only adhering to international copyright standards. However, this assertion ignores the fact that U.S.–based corporations such as Disney had a hugely influential role in setting these standards. In 2003 Illegal Art - a label hosted by Steev Hise’s collage-centric Web site detritus.net and run by the pseudonymously named Philo Farnsworth (after the inventor of the television) - fought back. The label began work on its latest project, a compilation CD named Sonny Bono Is Dead. In its press release soliciting the input of artists, Illegal Art stated, “We encourage artists to liberally sample from works that would have fallen into the Public Domain by the year 2004 had the Sonny Bono Act failed,” adding slyly that “artists are also encouraged to create new works by sampling Sonny Bono’s output.”<br />
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THIS ESSAY ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE AUTHOR'S BOOK, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION®<br />
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In my years with the United States Pirate Party, I have been interviewed by various news outlets and students doing papers on third parties for various classes. I always answer student questions whenever such an e-mail appears in my inbox. Below are a sampling of their questions and my responses to them. I hope these students all received A's for their effort. Also, I am a big anime/manga fan, and that definitely comes out in this series of questions and answers. While this essay was originally written in 2010 and has existed for some time on the main USPP website and elsewhere, this version is newly updated.<br />
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1. Do you personally acquire digital media through file sharing? Downloading copyrighted material breaks several laws, and it is not the Pirate Party’s goal to break the law, simply to bring the law’s perspective into the digital information age.<br />
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2. How would content producers profit, if their media is being provided free of charge? The easiest way would be advertising. The people who make the songs that are the most listened to and the most downloaded or whatever, would receive the larger share of the revenue pie. Of course, as a friend pointed out to me previously, “Okay, advertising. Where does that money come from? As they say, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You’re funded with advertising, someone else lost that advertising dollar.”<br />
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While an advertising-supported model has its limits, there are several models that have worked well for several companies/people.<br />
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Anime Network and Crunchyroll both have a system in place where you can watch some anime for free. Then you can watch more and other anime for a price. The price ranges from $7 per month to a yearly pass of $70 per year. I have no idea how many subscribers they get at any price. They also host a few advertisements. I have no idea how many or how much money those generate. Presumably it’s enough to keep them in business.<br />
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Kodansha recently came up with an idea of releasing manga (Japanese comic books) as a series of iPod/iPhone apps. It's a great idea, but there is that one major hurdle to cross: Apple itself. Apple is the gatekeeper for everything that is sold on the iTunes Store. If Apple does not approve of something, it does not get sold.<br />
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Selling on Amazon's Kindle ebook store would be another possibility. The overhead is lower for an Internet-based store than it is for a brick-and-mortar store. Also, there would be no physical objects to ship, so manga created for distribution on a Kindle (or other ebook reader) could retail for a lower price. <br />
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There is a comic called Megatokyo (www.megatokyo.com). It’s an American comic done in a “manga style.” Usually every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, one page is uploaded to the site. The comic has a pile of followers, including myself. The way the author monetizes it is by selling a “low bandwidth version” (book) and shirts and other things that pop up in the comic.<br />
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Every page that has ever been uploaded to the Megatokyo site is still there so anyone can go back and read the series from the beginning at any time. This is particularly helpful for new fans who want to join the story.<br />
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Though, the only way that would work with manga is if the original writers release it online the same way. Of course these pages would have to be translated into nearly every language that the fans speak to ensure they keep coming back to the primary site and not some third party site that offers the pages translated to their language. <br />
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The difference between Megatokyo and any other manga is Megatokyo was made from the beginning to be a webcomic. If you read today’s page and get frustrated and want to read the next page, or the next chapter, tough. You have to wait for the page along with everyone else. You can’t go to some website and download the entirety of the series.<br />
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While flipping through an issue of one of my favorite manga series, Loveless, I can find no t-shirts that Soubi or Ritsuka wear that make me say “Oooh! I want that shirt!” though, some weirdo fangirls might go for the cat ears or something. Maybe a messenger bag. Every series has a messenger bag. Or maybe make a tie-in MMO.<br />
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In Loveless, the villains meet up in Wisdom Resurrection, a fictional MMORPG that appears to be based on Final Fantasy XI. That’s where they hold some of their meetings. Maybe they could make an MMO based on that. Maybe take a cue from Turbine and make it free-to-play, but make money via micro-transactions.<br />
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Turbine is a company that makes video games. Two of their game series, Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online used to be MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) that operated under a subscription model, for so much money per month, you could play. Starting in 2009 Turbine started making these games free-to-play. You could still pay a monthly fee to receive certain advantages such as the ability to carry more gold and items, but you could play the games, to their completion, without paying a cent if you wanted. Many new players flocked to the games.<br />
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The third idea is to create a Hulu-like site where everything is free and available from all the major manufacturers. Force people to watch an ad or read an ad or whatever for x number of pages viewed.<br />
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The other problem with manga is this: “What’s good?” If you walk into a Books-A-Million any day of the week, you will find a pile of manga titles. Manga isn’t like a “funny book” where you can pick up any issue and know what’s going on. There’s a story. If I picked up Loveless volume six and read it without having read the previous five volumes, I’d have no idea what was going on.<br />
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“Thanks grandma… Full Metal Alchemist volume 73… thanks… yes grandma, this is one of them Japanese manga comics.” Never mind the fact I hadn’t read volume 1-72.<br />
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With a manga, you have to read about 2 or 3 volumes to figure out what the story is. That’s a cost of around $30 and who knows how many weeks/months/years of waiting for new volume to come out. And even then? Who knows. With 8 volumes of Loveless, I have spent $80, if each volume costs $10. <br />
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For $80, I could buy every Stephen King book I’ve not read yet. <br />
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As of this writing, Naruto, the most popular manga series currently in circulation is up to volume 58. Each volume retails for $10, then the entire run would cost $580, and that's before taxes. What kind of person has that kind of disposable income?<br />
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I was happy when Shonen Jump was released in the US several years ago. Shonen Jump is a manga anthology, each issue contains several chapters of a few different manga in it. I bought a subscription and had it active for a few years. I started to care less and less about it once Sandland concluded. Then I let it lapse. I have no idea what’s in it now.<br />
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Like I said, they don’t make it easy for people to find a new manga to get into. Why spend money on a series you might hate when you can pop onto a website and read a few chapters of it, heck, why not read the whole thing?<br />
A coalition of comic book and manga publishers in the US and Japan has been pushing for litigation against at least 30 illegal scanlation websites.[1] <br />
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Scanlation is a portmanteau of “scan” and “translation” it refers to the act of obtaining the original (usually Japanese) language release of a manga (either by physically obtaining a copy or downloading a raw copy, a copy that is still in its original language).<br />
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Diehard fans translate their favorite series and release it on one of several popular scanlation websites. Manga isn't the only thing that can be scanlated, though, when it comes to anime, the word used is fansub.<br />
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Sure, one of the manga scanlation sites that’s under attack by the coalition is a Google Top 1000 website with page views that hover in the billions, but the questions are:<br />
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A. How much manga on that site is available commercially in the US? I talked to a friend of mine and found that he enjoyed a certain manga. Only nine volumes of that series were legitimately translated and released in the US, out of 20 volumes altogether. Then, for whatever reason, the US company that was legitimately translating and releasing it, canceled it. There are still 11 volumes unreleased in English. The friend went on to tell me how he read the rest of the series online as it was the only place that he could read the entire series. Oh, and that series had to be translated into English by a fan who enjoyed that series as well. I felt my friend's pain, as the company that had been releasing Loveless in the US decided to drop their license. <br />
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That’s just an example of something we used to have, but don’t have any more. What about the series that never came out here at all?<br />
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B. Would the people who read the manga online have bought it? This goes for the ones not released here as well as the ones that are. It’s the old question about downloading MP3s. Is it really “theft” if no physical item was removed? <br />
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Clearly there is a massive demand for easily obtainable manga and anime.<br />
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There are several authors who make pretty good money by releasing their material for free on their websites while also selling books. Cory Doctorow, an author (who also has an essay in this collection) does just that. By having the digital version of a book advertise for the printed version, it allows his work to spread further than it would have otherwise.<br />
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With today's print-on-demand companies, no one has to deal with a big publisher. This book you're reading right now, No Safe Harbor, was published as a free-to-download PDF. But, a print-on-demand version was also created. These POD companies print books as they are sold, so there is no warehouse to maintain a backlog of unsold books.<br />
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If we take that idea back to manga, it would be incredibly easy for a US or Japanese manga publisher to release content on a website for reading, and then have a system set up with a print-on-demand publisher to print only the copies of the full volume that are ordered by either bookstores or people. Of course, the thing that most likely stands in the way for such a system is rights and licensing of materials across several countries, hiring of translators, and other support people, as well as fear. <br />
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Fear?<br />
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Yes, fear. Most companies know how to make money doing what they are doing. They are afraid to try something new for fear that their house of cards could tumble down. They fear that which is new. Song writers feared player pianos, musicians feared radio, television broadcasters feared the VCR, music publishers feared Napster. It's a cycle of fear.<br />
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3. Why do you think piracy is illegal? The idea that sharing anything online is piracy is absurd. Actual piracy requires forceful and aggressive acts, committed against those who would keep a cargo safe from harm. The cargo in this case is the freedom to act. We would take it from those who jealously guard it for themselves and divide it amongst everyone in the country.<br />
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The Pirate Party wants to “raid” the law and “carry away” (repeal) laws which do not serve those on our metaphorical boat. The trick of it is: we’re all in the same boat. It is in service to those on our boat (the United States) that we aim to help.<br />
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We are not willing to accept that file sharing should be banned (and will take steps– once we have party members in office– to ensure that any laws in this regard are adamantly opposed, since technology isn’t the problem, but rather education about what its proper use is). On the other hand, we do agree that there is a significant amount of wrong being done to our rights in the name of protecting those whose sole aim for over 50 years has been the control and manipulation of human minds. Brainwashing our population is against our national interest in maintaining a democracy.<br />
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4. Should file sharers be punished? Should file sharers who sell the content for a profit be punished?: Back in the day, before the Internet. People would create “mix tapes” these were audio tapes that someone had painstakingly recorded a few songs from several vinyl records or other tapes to. Typically these were given to friends, not “friend” in the Internet sense, but friend in the local sense. You could really only physically hand these mix tapes to people you knew in person. These tapes were generally given as a kind of sampler, like a “this is the kind of music I’m in to, and I think you might dig it as well” kind of thing.<br />
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These tapes were given freely to people, and usually didn’t contain more than one or two songs by a particular artist. To the purveyors of mix tapes, these were not only seen as somewhat free advertising for artists, they were believed to be fair use (which is a tricky thing to actually prove), and then there’s the Audio Home Recording Act, which made the companies that created and sold blank audio tapes and tape deck recorders pay royalties to music writers and music publishers, whether or not the tapes were used to copy music. So right there, that was almost like the government saying it was legal to make mix tapes. (However, that does not make the old Napster or burning CDs on your computer legal).[2]<br />
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But, the second part of the question has to do with the selling of such content for profit. That is undeniably wrong. In November, 2010, I wrote a USPP newsletter item about a trip I made to the flea market. On this particular trip, I found a man selling obviously bootlegged DVDs on recordable media with the names of the films written on them with a Sharpie. That guy was breaking the law.[3]<br />
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He should be punished, as should other people who try to sell other people’s content for money. He is just as guilty as someone who would rent out the use of your car without you knowing, and without you receiving any of the proceeds thereof.<br />
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Okay, that’s probably a bad analogy, but it’s still not good.<br />
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As a counterpoint, I will say this: I have read that the only group who can use file sharing without problem is radio broadcasters as they do have to catalog each song and artist they play and pay royalties to the appropriate music writers and publishers organizations, so even if they download a song to play on the air, they’re still paying the original writer and publisher of the music.<br />
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A side note, notice I said nothing about the person who actually sings the song. Back when the royalty rates were first organized for these things, it was decreed that the song writer receive a portion and the song publisher receive a portion as the song itself was seen as an advertisement for the singer (and their band)’s albums. Of course, there are some songs that were written by the singer, so in that case the singer does get a royalty.<br />
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5. Do you think we can come up with a compromise to current file sharing laws? Before you can come up with a compromise to current file sharing laws, you first have to figure out the why. Why do people share files? There are a pile of reasons. One is money, we’re in a financial crisis. People are losing jobs left and right, the amount of disposable income people have is decreasing, yet the price of content is increasing rapidly.<br />
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A number of people believe that content should be free and easily accessible. One way for that to happen is through an advertising supported model. Several years ago, one such service, called Ruckus existed for several years. It was only open to people who could sign up with a .edu email address, ostensibly, college students. You could download songs, for free. New songs, and even older songs, were added all the time. It was great! I loved it.<br />
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There was a few problems though: while you could download songs to your computer and play them offline, you could not remove them from your computer or burn to a CD or transfer to your iPod or other music playing device. They were locked to your computer, and so were you if you wanted to play your music.<br />
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The song files also only had a life of 30 days, you had to log back into the Ruckus website and Ruckus Media Player in order to renew the license on the songs.<br />
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That was a problem I could live with. But, then one day in 2009, the party ended. Officially, Ruckus said the problem was “overcrowding” – clearly the demand was there for a free music service. Too much demand.<br />
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There are two more free music services that recently came online, Spotify and Pandora. I have not had enough time using those services to pass judgment on them.<br />
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6. Do you think the laws should adapt to evolving technology? Yes. The problem with the current laws of the United States is that the vast majority of them were written in the 1700s or had lobbyists and corporate interests in mind, and not the average citizen. The original term of copyright was 14 years, renewable to a further 14 years for a maximum of 28 years. Copyright now is “70 years after the death of author. If a work of corporate authorship, 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first” that’s not exactly a “limited time” while technically, it is, but for the vast majority of the people alive today, we will all be dead in 120 years, so to us, that’s not a limited time, that’s a lifetime, plus several years. I would love for copyright to return to its original 14-year term.[4]<br />
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7. If you were an artist, would you support free distribution of your content? Yes. I intend to release most, if not all material I have created under a Creative Commons license, like the one this book uses. However, several years ago, Prince released his latest album, not in stores, but in the newspaper. Anyone who bought a copy of “The Mail on Sunday” received a free copy of his latest album, Planet Earth. Also, he had concert dates for 21 days in London that completely sold out, most likely due to his free CD advertising. <br />
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While this is a different kind of “sharing” than the kind the Internet is blamed for, the principle is the same: Would any of the people who received the free album bought it before? Would they have gone to Prince's show too?<br />
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8. Do you believe piracy is stealing? I believe I mentioned it previously, but, everyone who pirates an album, would they have bought that album had the pirated version not been available to them? I think not, at least not in every sense.<br />
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Downloading an album is different than walking into Best Buy or where ever, grabbing a CD, and walking out of a store without paying for it.<br />
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When you download an album, you’re just making a digital copy of it. Nothing has been removed. The original copy of that digital file is still on whatever computer it originally came from.<br />
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But when you go into a store and walk out without paying for the CD hidden in your jacket pocket, that is stealing. The retail industry has a word for it, “shrink” as in “shrinking profits” – it might take a while before the store realizes the CD has been stolen. As long as their computers say they still have one copy of an album on the shelves, they will not order more as they believe they still have one in stock. In this way, stealing one album could in turn lead to further lost sales than just one CD.<br />
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9. Who benefits the most from piracy? In the long run, no one benefits from piracy. Let’s say you like Band X, you download all of their albums, you give your friends copies of those copies, and those copies propagate exponentially. On one hand, Band X now has a pile of fans, every band wants a pile of fans, right? But, on the other hand, now that you and a pile of friends you’ve never met have copies of Band X’s albums (for free, mind you), Band X is showing that they haven’t sold many albums because you and your “friends” have downloaded them. Why would Band X make more music when they don’t make any money from it? What record label would allow a band that doesn’t make money to release more albums? In the end, the record label decides not to renew their contract.<br />
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However, on the other side of the coin, the band now has many fans. These fans could channel their love of the band into ticket sales for a live tour. Several years ago the British band Radiohead left their record label, EMI, and proceeded to record a new album. Instead of releasing it as a CD, the band decided instead to release it on the internet using a “pay what you want” pricing structure. You could pay nothing for it, or you could pay a penny, or you could pay considerably more. The band went on record as saying they had made more money on the sales of that album than they had receieved for the digital sales of all their previous albums combined.<br />
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That marked the start of the self-releasing superstar band. Recently Hawthorne Heights and others have left their labels to become independent bands. While this does not stop piracy of their albums, without a record label, the band keeps more money of the sales they do make and are freer to make the artisitic decisions they want, not what upper management wants.<br />
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10. Do you agree with Google’s censorship of terms related to filesharing (torrent, utorrent, bittorrent, rapidshare, megaupload) in the autofill and instant features? What Google is trying to do is move the blame away from themselves in this matter. By having “torrent” pop up in an auto complete window would almost be like Google suggesting someone to download something using bittorrent. But, Google’s results themselves have no qualms about filling the results pages full of Rapidshare and Megaupload links. So basically, Google is trying to cover its rear in that it wouldn't “suggest” those words to you, but won’t stop you from clicking on links from those sites. If it did stop users, then that would raise several net neutrality issues that Google does not want to contend with, such as controlling where users go online.<br />
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11. Do you agree with the claims that piracy is hurting the music industry? I believe I touched on this item before in another question. But yes, I would say piracy is having an effect on the music industry. How big of an impact? I don’t know. And I’m willing to doubt the information and research the music industry is pushing forward on the matter. How can they know how many copies of a given album would sell if the Internet didn’t exist?<br />
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There are many reasons (and possibilities) why the music industry is hurting. One could be lack of good music, of course, everyone has a different idea of what good music is. And that’s one thing that could also be hurting the music industry: The glut of musicians. Back in “the day” there were fewer genres of music and the channels to get to that music was narrow as well. Everyone was listening to the same bands, so everyone bought the same records. You had Rock, Country (far different than the Country of today), Folk (which could be considered an offshoot of Country), R&B, Classical, and maybe a few others I can’t think of off the top of my head.<br />
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Today, just by looking at what I have on my shelf (I am an avid music lover and have over 200 CDs and I’ve not counted how much I have on vinyl) we have: Classic Rock, Contemporary Rock, Metal, Emo, Alternative, Trance, Video Game music, Eurobeat, J-Pop, Para Para, Canadian Folk, Finnish Prog Rock, American Prog Rock, Canadian Prog Rock, The Beatles (so good they have their own genre), Punk, Hardcore, Vocaloid, Surfer, Rap, R&B, Gangsta Rap, Screamo, Film soundtracks, Broadway play soundtracks, etc, and even some of those genres have subgenres that splinter infinitely.<br />
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So you see, a kind of splintering has occurred in music, we have more of it and getting more every day (or every Tuesday if you’re going by store release dates). I would love to see a study that seeks to see if this “hurting of the music industry” could be explained by this splintering. Bands aren’t selling millions of copies of albums anymore, but a few hundred thousand, if they’re lucky.<br />
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12. How do you view the current court cases of Joel Tenenbaum vs the RIAA and Jammie Thomas vs the RIAA? Thomas was the first person to be brought to trial for downloading music. She was brought to trial over 24 songs. The case kept being repealed and the amount of money figured for the settlement kept changing. At one trial she was told to pay $222,000. At another trial, $54,000. At a third trial, she was told to pay $1.5 million. At the $1.5 million dollar level, that amounts to $62,500 per song.<br />
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Twenty-four songs, right? Okay, that’s around 2 CDs worth of music, give or take. What if she shoplifted this music instead? What if she shoplifted however many CDs she'd need to steal to come up with the 24 songs she was brought to trial over?<br />
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In Florida, if caught for shoplifting an item that costs less than $300 the maximum fine would be a fine of up to $500 and/or two months in jail for the first offense. Even the penalty for a 3rd offense isn't as severe as having to pay over a million dollars. In that case, the crime is upgraded to a felony, a fine of up to $5000 and/or five years in prison.[5]<br />
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That’s outrageous.<br />
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Not outrageous in the sense that Florida's fine and prison sentence is insane, it isn't. It's that the law in this country right now seems to think that if a computer was used in any way to commit a crime it makes it far more serious than if a computer was not used.<br />
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These were some great questions. Given that I’ve put these on the website (and this book) where anyone can read them now, I’d love to see some new questions from students.<br />
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Clearly there are far more ideas for this kind of thing than I have put forth. This is just a start.<br />
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