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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.

Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video

• Internet Archive - Digital library of free books, movies, and music
• Jamendo - Creative Commons music
• Musopen - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks
• Project Gutenburg - Public domain books in electronic format
• Wikimedia Commons - Public domain and Creative Commons images

Education

Digital Social Learning Communities

• Dweeber
• Elgg
• ePals
• Mahara
• Moodle

Free Learning

List of 700 Free Online Courses

• Academic Earth - University level
• Coursera - Free classes from 16+ Universities
• Duolingo - Learn languages
• Free Online Courses - University level
• Khan Academy - Always adding more subjects
• Udacity - Concentrated on Computer Science
• Open Courseware - List of OCW sites

• MIT Open Courseware - Youtube
• JHSPH Open Courseware - Johns Hopkins

• edX - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.
• Youtube EDU - Educational Youtube videos.
• open.michigan

Government

• Change By Us - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better
• City 2.0 - Bringing citizen participation to the surface
• Civic Commons - Collection of civic collaboration technologies
• Local Wiki - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge
• Open Assembly - Open source crowd-sourcing
• Your Priorities - Platform for suggesting and debating polices

Open Source

Hardware

• Enviu - Open Source Houses
• P2P Foundation - Repository
• Thingyverse - Repository

Software

Open Source Alternative

• Avidemux - Video Editing
• Cinelerra - Video Editing
• Dia - Diagramming
• FreeCAD - 3D Design
• Gimp - Image Editing
• Libre Office - Office Tools (Word Editing, Presentation, Drawing, Databases)
• Linux - Operating Systems
• Open Office - Office Tools (Word Editing, Presentation, Drawing, Databases)

Our Publications

Articles

• Organizing a Regular Meeting - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)
• Running an Information Stand - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)
• Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)

Books

• No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics - by Various Authors
• Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World - by Rick Falkvinge

Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)

• List of books, articles, and research about myths of innovation

Articles

• A Fair, Free Market or the Copyright Monopoly - Rick Falkvinge
• Apparently Someone Forgot to Tell Reality that the Entertainment Industry was Dying - Techdirt (Mike Masnick)
• Copyright Lobby: The Public Has 'No Place In Policy Discussions' - TechDirt (Mike Masnick)
• Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works - Ars Technica (Joe Mullin)
• Don't Believe the Publishers' Hype: Support Open Access - EFF (Adi Kamdar)
• Famous Judge Spikes Apple-Google Case, Calls Patent System "Dysfunctional" - Gigaom (Jeff John Roberts)
• How Music Royalties Work - How Stuff Works (Lee Ann Obringer)
• Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from Patent Good to Patent Profiteering - OpenSource.com (Ruth Suehle)
• Interview: Amelia Andersdotter - GeeksUnleashed.Me (tomhardbyteowens)
• Is There ANY Part Of The Copyright Monopoly That Meets Legislative Quality Bars? - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)
• It's official: Open source is an engine for growth - Infoworld (Simon Phipps)
• It’s Time To Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money – Or That It Even Makes Money - TorrentFreak (Rick Falkvinge)
• Let’s Reform Copyright. With A Sledgehammer. Into Smithereens. - Rick Falkvinge
• Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy - TorrentFreak (enigmax)
• MPAA Lawyer Inspired File Sharing Religion Catholic Bishop Unhappy - TorrentFreak (enigmax)
• No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)
• SOPA and Internet Censorship Political Cartoons - Fight for the Future
• Sriracha hot sauce purveyor turns up the heat - Los Angeles Times (Frank Shyong)
• Swiss Gov't Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal - TorrentFreak
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Is Even Worse Than You Think - Slate (Blake E. Reid)
• The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill from Wyden and Issa - Techdirt (Eric Goldman)
• The Patent, Used as a Sword - The New York Times (Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr)
• The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design - by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman
• Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents" - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)
• Trademarks: the good, the bad and the ugly - The Gaurdian (Cory Doctorow)
• U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents - Common Dreams (Amanda Wilson)
• Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India - The Atlantic (Thomas Bollyky)

Books

• A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing - by Fred von Lohmann
• Access to Knowledge in Brazil - Edited by Lea Shaver
• Against Intellectual Monopoly - by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
• Against Intellectual Property - by N. Stephan Kinsella
• Circulating Libraries and Video Rental Stores - by Richard Roehl and Hal R. Varian
• Codev2 - by Lawrence Lessig
• Content - by Cory Doctorow
• Copyright, Competition and Publishers’ Pursuit of Online Compensation - by Ariel Fox
• Free Culture - by Lawrence Lessig
• Freedom of Expression - by Kembrew McLeod
• From Shakespeare to DJ Danger Mouse: A Quick Look at Copyright and User Creativity in the Digital Age - by Urs Gasser and Silke Ernst
• Indie Band Survival Guide - by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan
• 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
• Jokapiraatinoikeus (Every Pirate's Right)(Finnish) - by Ahto Apajalahti and Kaj Sotala
• Little Brother - by Cory Doctorow
• NCSC Justice Case Files 1: The Case of Internet Piracy - by National Center for State Courts
• Remix (ISBN 9781408113749) - by Lawrence Lessig
• The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution - by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman
• The dotCommunist Manifesto - by Eben Moglen
• The Economics of Intellectual Property: A Review to Identify Themes for Future Research - by Padraig Dixon and Christine Greenhalgh
• The Future of Ideas - by Lawrence Lessig
• The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage - by Matteo Pasquinelli
• The Pirate's Dilemma - by Matt Mason
• Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets - by Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson with Donald Abelson
• Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA - by the EFF
• Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom - by Yochai Benkler

Videos

• A Garden in My Apartment - TED (Britta Riley)
• Architecture for the people by the people - TED (Alastair Parvin)
• Copying Is Not Theft - by Question Copyright
• Copyright: Forever LessOne Day - by C.G.P. Grey
• Copyright vs. Community - by Richard Stallman
• Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea) - TED (Clay Shirky)
• Embrace the remix - TED (Kirby Ferguson)
• How YouTube is Driving Innovation - TED (Chris Anderson)
• Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture - TED (Johanna Blakley)
• PressPausePlay
• PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet - by Fight for the Future
• SOPA and PIPA - by Khan Academy
• SOPA Cabana - by Dan Bull
• Terry Fisher's HLS and EdX copyright courses - Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• The $8 billion iPod - TED (Rob Reid)
• The Art of Asking - TED (Amanda Palmer)
• The Coming War on General Computing - by Cory Doctorow
• The New Open Source Economics - TED (Yochai Benkler)
• Where good ideas come from - TED (Steven Johnson)

Privacy

Articles

• Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)
• Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? - theguardian (Glenn Greenwald)
• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform - Wired (David Kravets)
• Carrier IQ Rootkit - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)
• CISPA: The Corporate Insecurity Piracy Act - The Detroit News (Mako Yamakura)
• Death Twitches: Nokia Caught Wiretapping Encrypted Traffic from Its Handsets - Falkvinge
• Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain - ACLU (Jay Stanley)
• FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool - c|net (Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache)
• How To Protect Against Laptop Webcam Hacking - EFF (Kurt Opsahl)
• Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance - Forbes (E.D. Kain)
• Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually - Wired (David Kravets)
• Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world - Denver Post (John Ingold)
• PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS - Steve Mann
• Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)
• Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras - Infowars (Steve Watson)
• Spy, or pay up: FBI-backed bill would fine US firms for refusing wiretaps - RT
• Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)
• Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)
• Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)
• Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of police in Illinois - Chicago Tribune (Jason Meisner)
• Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network - Business Insider (David Seaman)
• The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion - Washington Post (Christy Zink)
• The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)
• They Can Do That?! 10 Outrageous Tactics Cops Get Away With - Alternet (John Knefel)
• TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program - RT
• U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance - CNET (Declan McCullagh)
• U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance - c|net (Declan McCullagh)
• US government spies on federal staffers - RT
• Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court - Wired (David Kravets)
• White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)
• Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car - by PC World (Dan Tynan)

Books

• Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices - EFF
• Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm
• Locational Privacy - by The EFF
• Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet - by Jonathan D. Wallace
• Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business - by the ACLU of North Carolina

Videos

• FBI, here I am! - by Hasan Elahi
• Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now - by Laura Poitras
• Three Types of Online Attack - by Mikko Hypponen
• Your Phone Company is Watching - by Malte Spitz

Transparency and Accountability

Articles

• $10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels - Right to Know
• America's Real Criminal Element: Lead - MotherJones (Kevin Drum)
• Are Millennials the Screwed Generation? - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)
• Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)
• Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)
• Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment - The Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)
• Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege - by End the Lie
• Decade of US 'War on Terror' Yields More 'Terrorism' - Common Dreams
• DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training - ACLU
• EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)
• Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever - RollingStone (Matt Taibbi)
• FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)
• Federal court rules in favor of NDAA - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)
• For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)
• Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing - Wired (David Kravets)
• Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams
• Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)
• Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration - ACLU
• Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)
• Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)
• Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal - Buzzfeed
• How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain - The Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
• How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)
• Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)
• Know your rights (Infographic) - Criminology.com
• Medicare Pulls Back Curtain On Hospital Bills - NPR (Scott Hensley)
• MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)
• Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)
• Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama - Truth-out (Mike Stivers)
• NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear - Wall Street Journal
• NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)
• Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows - Washington Post (James Ball)
• Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)
• Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever - RT
• Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order - RT
• PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)
• Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows - Huffington Post (Reuters)
• Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless - NPR (Eyder Peralta)
• Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)
• Supreme Court Rules "Material Support" Law Can Stand - ACLU
• The American Anti-Corruption Act is Historic Legislation that will Finally Get Money Out of Politics - Films For Action
• The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online - Crickey (Bernard Keane)
• The Economic Benefits of EPA Regulations Massively Outweigh The Costs - Think Progress (Jeff Spross)
• The Housing Market Recovery Is ‘A Complete Hoax’ - Truthdig (Alexander Reed Kelly)
• The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty) - by Washington's Blog
• The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones - ZeroHedge (George Washington)
• The US schools with their own police - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)
• Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent - Salon (Natasha Lennard)
• US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners - RT
• US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)
• Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books - Sound+Noise (Tom)

Books

• d4i (Declaration for Independence) - by Lawrence Lessig
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson
• Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution - by Christopher T. Marsden
• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age - by the Personal Democracy Press

Videos

• Beware Online Filter Bubbles - by Eli Pariser
• Demand a more Open Source Government - by Beth Noveck
• Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along - James J. Delaney?
• Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary
• Hitler reacts to SOPA
• How pervasive has government distrust gotten? - by Ivan Krastev
• How to escape education's death valley - TED (Ken Robinson)
• In Defense of Dialogue - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)
• Gerrymandering Explained - by C.G.P. Grey
• GMOs: The Moment of Truth
• Hollywood and the War Machine - Al Jazeera
• How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson
• SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock - SNL
• Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt' - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider
• The power of the informal economy - by Robert Neuwirth
• The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained - by C.G.P. Grey
• The Trouble with the Electoral College - by C.G.P. Grey
• Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum
• Why Genetically Engineered Foods Should be Labeled - TED (Gary Hirshberg)

Reference

Court Cases

• In Depth: The District Court's Remarkable Order Striking Down the NSL (National Security Letter) Statute - EFF
• List of Copyright Cases - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools
• PA Court Deals Blow to Fracking Industry and Corporate 'Privacy Rights' - AlterNet (Steven Rosenfeld)

Legislation

• ACTA - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities
• COICA - by Congress
• DMCA - by Congress
• HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - by Congress
• OPEN Act (edits suggestable) - Congress
• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 - by Congress
• PROTECT IP Act - by Congress

Philosophy

• Americans Would Prefer Denmark Social Safety Net Taxes If Informed - Egberto Willies
• Communist Manifesto - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
• From Dictatorship to Democracy - by Gene Sharp
• Iceland's New Constitution - Iceland Constitutional Council
• Institutions vs. Collaboration - by Clay Shirky
• Person having ordinary skill in the art - Wikipedia (Various)
• Rupees in your pocket (A basic minimum income) - Le Monde Dimplomatique (Benjamin Fernandez)
• The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians - Alternet (Michael S. Wilson, Noam Chomsky)
• The Pirate Wheel - Pirates
• Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world? - by yanis

Reports, Statistics, and Studies

• 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement - by the White House
• 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
• 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act - Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society - by American Meteorological Society Council
• EFF's Guide to CDA 230: The Most Important Law Protecting Online Speech - by the EFF
• Filesharing Study Compilation - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)
• Guide to WIPO Services - by the WIPO
• International Trade Statistics 2008 - by the WTO
• List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Non-Disruptive Tactics of Suppression Are Superior in Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, and Financial Panics - David A. Siegel
• Report on Orphan Works - by the United States Copyright Office
• Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it (Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)KEI Mirror Maryland Pirates Mirror Massachusetts Pirates Mirror Scribd Mirror - Republican Study Committee
• Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013 - by the United States Copyright Office
• The Biggest "Takers" and Societal Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor - TruthOut (Paul Buchheit)
• The Case Against Patents - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
• The Case for Copyright Reform - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge
• Understanding Copyright and Related Rights - by the WIPO
• Understanding Industrial Property - by the WIPO
• Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil - Patent Opposition Database
• Revoking An Invalid Patent: The Case of Didanosine in Thailand - Patent Opposition Database
• Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill - Mad In America (Bruce Levine, Ph.D.)

Other

• Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship
• American Fact Finder - US Census Bureau
• Apathy - A flash game created by Pirates to show how difficult it is to get our representatives to represent us.
• Bitcoin Overview - Khan Academy
• CV Dazzle - Computer Vision Camoflage
• DIY Mesh Guide - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices
• Defective by Design - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives
• Encrypt Everything - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada
• FreedomBox - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet
• Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)
• How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else) - EFF (Parker Higgins)
• Loomio - Public collaboration tool
• The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy) - Crypto.is
• The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations - by Ahmad Kamal
• List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country - compiled by Wikileaks
• Who Bought Your Politician? - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign