Pirate Party Responds to Kickass Torrent Seizure

Pirate Party Responds to Kickass Torrent Seizure
Post Date June 15, 2022
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Category Intellectual Property, International Issues

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.

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Keep DRM Out Of HTML 5

Post Date April 30, 2022
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Category Intellectual Property, International Issues

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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