5th board meeting of the PPEU (January 19, 2020)
Dear Pirates, we hereby cordially invite you to the next board meeting of the PPEU on January 26th at 20:00 CET. This next…
Tag: Internet freedom
Kolaja: the French implementation of the Copyright Directive counter the conclusions of the European Commission (December 9, 2019)
Brussels, 9/12/2019 – France started the implementation process of the copyright directive; however, the proposal as it stands currently goes against the original…
EU terror filter negotiations to begin: Here’s where we stand (September 24, 2019)
Today, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has recommended “Trilogue” negotiations on the EU scheme to “prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online”…
German copyright public consultation is open now: make your voice heard! (August 28, 2019)
Where we are in the process Despite the many controversial issues surrounding the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the legislation got…
“Christchurch Call”: Internet censorship does not protect against terrorism! (May 14, 2019)
The Pirate Party of Germany warns governments and Internet platforms against signing the so-called “Christchurch Call for the Elimination of Terrorist and Violent…
Sad Day for the Internet: The Fight Continues (March 26, 2019)
Brussels/Strasbourg, March 26, 2019 – The European Parliament approved today the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, so called Copyright Directive.…
Tracking down license plate scanners (ANPR): Pirate Party publishes locations and presents detection device (February 4, 2019)
Automatic license plate reading systems (ANPR) are currently used in several German states to match the license plates of all passing cars with…
EU governments want to introduce electronic communications censorship (January 28, 2019)
Germany, Great Britain and several other EU governments want to have Internet connections, e-mails and whatsapp messages filtered for illegal content. In search…
Legalize filesharing and stop incriminating families! (October 23, 2018)
Press statement: Legalize filesharing and stop incriminating families! Following last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice on the liability of internet…
Anti-terror censorship: EU Commission proposal on Internet blocking and filtering would break the web (September 21, 2018)
The German pirate party warns of the EU Commission‘s new plan aimed at “preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online”. “The proposed easy-to-bypass…