WA: Pirate Party Organization Taking Shape in the Evergreen State
Brian Rowe writes at Freedom for IP:

It looks like the US Pirate party is getting more organized. I have not been involved personally for a while. I am more on the radical side supporting the platform of the EU party. The US party is more moderate on several issues.
I unfortunate can not make the meeting. I am very courious to hear what they have planed. If anyone who reads this goes please send me a link to any notes from the meeting:

“I invite you to join the IRC and be an active member of the Washington Pirate Party. We need you to help voice our concerns and show congress what we care about. Not sure how to join the IRC, see the discussions page or email washington@pirate-http://www.facebook.com/l/15a1d;party.us”.
Event: First Meeting
What: Rally
Start Time: Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, April 20 at 8:00pm
Where: IRC – server: http://www.facebook.com/l/15a1d;irc.pirate-party.us channel: #WAPP

The pirate party is about to board the ship of state…ahoy…

In other pirate party stories…more pirate party stories please…

http://thirdpartydaily.blogspot.com/2010/04/pirate-party-founed-in-bulgaria.html

Pirate Party Founded in Bulgaria
From the Sofia Echo:

After years of sporadic online discussions, the formal founding forum of Bulgaria’s Pirate Party was held in Sofia on April 11 2009. Delegates from 20 Bulgarian towns adopted the articles of constitution and the party’s political programme, the party said in a statement on its website. Like other similar parties world-wide, the Bulgarian Pirate Party identifies changes in the existing copyright and patent laws as its main reason for existence.

“Copyright and patent laws today lead to the harmful creation of monopolies, the loss of important democratic values, obstacles in the way of creating culture and knowledge and obstacles in the way of citizen access,” the party’s political programme said.

Looks like it was a pretty good film.

It makes one wish there were Nuremberg war crimes style trials for these arschlochen.

On a slightly more serious note, I’m classifying Pirate Party stories as non-left/right. I know they sit on the left in European parliaments, but unless they have platform stances on unrelated issues I don’t know about, many libertarians agree with pirate ideology as well.