Pirate Party Responds to Kickass Torrent Seizure

Pirate Party Responds to Kickass Torrent Seizure

I have owned a few torrent websites in my life, and one thing I have learned from this venture was people will upload anything and everything and if we wanted to go through everything it would be physically impossible with a staff less than 100. It’s impossible to know who uploaded what content and who owns the rights to what so when we learned to day that the dotPH registry has suspended the kat.ph domain name we were upset at their technological ignorance.

For those of …

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RCMP and Industry Canada IP Addresses Found To Be Downloading Torrents

RCMP and Industry Canada IP Addresses Found To Be Downloading Torrents

There has been some buzz recently surrounding the Montreal corporation Canipre, an organization which claims to perform “Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement.” In light of the methods Canipre is using to attempt to enforce intellectual property rights, we thought it was time to renew our hunt to see if we could find copyright infringement in other parts of our government. Last year, the Pirate Party of Canada found evidence of copyright infringement from inside the House of Commons. Our targets this time? Industry Canada and …

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Keep DRM Out Of HTML 5

The Pirate Party of Canada has signed an open letter with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) encouraging the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal as a part of HTML, the foundation of the web as most people know it. The proposal establishes the foundation for what will be used as a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system built into our web, this isn’t just bad because it blocks Canadians from using content under fair dealings, but also because it …

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