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Not to be confused with Actual Pirates

Piratism
"Aaaarrrr! We 'ave looted some booty on the internet."
Basic Information
Aliases	Pirate Politics Cyber-Pirates Anti-copyright Aktion Infoanarchism Pirate Parties Internet Anti-Authoritarianism Digital Hydrarchy Online Agorism Copyleftism Anti-Patentism (sometimes) Average Anime fan when streaming services charge more than 10$ for subscriptions
Alignment(s)	LibUnity  (In Theory) Invalid category (Most)  Liberals   Libertarians  Syncretic
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Anti-Authoritarianism Anti-Corruption Anti-Monopoly Civil Libertarianism Copyright Reform (Moderates) Copyright Abolition (Radicals) Direct Democracy E-Democracy Hydrarchy (Aesthetically) Liquid Democracy
Notable people	Europe Rick Falkvinge (1972-) Kingdom of Sweden Ivan Bartoš (1980-) Czech Republic
Variations
School of Thought	Czech Pirates Green Liberalism Progressivism Technoliberalism Social Libertarianism Radical Centrism
Character Information
Likes	Copyleft Digitalization Transparency Freedom of speech Pirating Media Open source GNU and Linux Decentralization
Dislikes	Copyright Disney Lars Ulrich Nintendo Square Enix
Song	You Are A Pirate Copying is Not Theft Robocopyright Pirate My Music 2700s Sea Shanties Arion - Internet Rebellion RiveR - Solo Free.mp3

"Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

Mark Twain

Piratism, or Pirate Politics, is a libertarian, usually democratic ideology born in Sweden on the grounds of copyright reform or abolition. It values government transparency, freedom of speech, and privacy. He's also quite big on digitalization and e-government, and strongly opposes any regulations of the internet by governments.

History

The first Pirate Party was officially formed on New Years Day 2006 in Sweden. Its founder, Rick Falkvinge, established the party after he found that Swedish politicians were generally unresponsive to Sweden's debate over changes to copyright law in 2005.

Officially, there are pirate parties in over 40 countries. Some European countries, such as Czechia and Luxembourg, have seen pirate party success with elected officials serving in the countries' legislative bodies. The mayor of Prague, elected in 2018, was the first pirate ever to be elected to be the mayor of a major city.

Foundations

W.I.P.

Personality

Piratism purposely models himself to look like a real pirate, in an attempt to "beat people to the punch" when being called a pirate. In reality, all this did was cause people to confuse him with real pirates and now no one outside of some European countries takes him seriously.

How to Draw

Flag of Piratism

1. Draw a ball with eyes
2. On the ball draw a mainsail symbol
   1. Draw a Black Line
   2. Out of the top of the line draw a curved line to the bottom of the line at the same side
   3. Repeat the previous step with a less extreme curve.
   4. (Optional) Draw a Circle around that
3. Turn one of the eyes into an eyepatch
4. (Optional) Draw a Pirate hat

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
	Black	#141414	20, 20, 20

Relationships

Online Mateys

• Direct Democracy, Liquid Democracy & E-Democracy - The future is upon the horizon!
• Techno-Anarchism - My biggest supporter.
• Anti-Authoritarianism - Good old brother.
• Civil Libertarianism - Best system.
• Social Liberalism - A good friend of mine who I often work with.
• Social Libertarianism - Good guy, we tend to have similar policies, even if they are a bit more moderate.
• Libertarianism & Libertarian Socialism - Big friends of mine.

Frenemies

• Hydrarchy - I'm not that kind of pirate!!! At least we agree copyright is nonsense.
• Agorism - Disregarding copyright is absolutely based, but I'm not sure about the whole "selling krokodil" thing.
• Anarcho-Communism - GNU is based, but I don't know about the whole "no government" and "communism" thing.
• Putinism - Authoritarian regulating the interne- wait you actively encourage internet piracy because of the war?

Copyrighters

• Corporatocracy - Torrent tracking goes brrrr.
• Authoritarian Capitalism - The reason piracy is not as successful.
• Police Statism - Screw you, there's no such thing as "illegal download"!
• Japanese LDP - Let me use Dolphin Emulator and play my Pokemon ROM hacks/fan games in peace!
• Dengism - Censorship and tyranny! Please still give me pirated games though.
• Neoconservatism - Stop punishing people for telling the truth. Assange and Snowden are heroes!
• Alt-Lite - You don't care about free speech dude. Quit using that phrase to advertise your shitty new website that you're really just using as an echo chamber for your crypto-fascistic worldviews.
• Alt-Right - Like the scumbag above, except he doesn't even try to hide his fascism.
• Trudeauism - Quit trying to soft censor the internet out of blind patriotism. Ditch bill C-11!

Further Information

Literature

• No Safe Harbor: Essays on Pirate Politics edited by Andrew Norton and Bradley Hall
• Culture vs. Copyright by Anatoly Volynets
• Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz

Wikipedia

• Pirate Politics
• Pirate Parties International
• European Pirate Party
• Online Piracy
• The Pirate Bay
• Piratbyran
• Kopimism
• Anti-copyright
• Copyright abolition
• Copyleft
• Criticism of patents
• Free-culture movement
• Information wants to be free

Videos

• You Hate all these Companies for the SAME Reason and Creators Shouldn't Own Their Creations, and Here's Why. by Uniquenameosaurus
• Why Artists Shouldn't Own Their Art by LiquidZulu
• Piracy Should Always Be An Option by ShortFatOtaku

Online Communities

• r/Piracy
• r/PirateParty
• r/PiratePartyUK
• The Pirate Bay

Gallery

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  Credits: u/Sepistachefist, Source

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  Credit:K-Tech, Source

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  Credit: u/PoliticsIsForNerds, Source

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