Pirates Center of Belarus
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The Pirates Center of Belarus | |
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| Founded | September 14, 2012 |
| Headquarters | Minsk, Belarus |
| Ideology | Supports the dismantling of all copyright laws |
| International affiliation | Pirate Parties International |
| Website | |
| pirates.by | |
History
The Pirates Center of Belarus was founded in Minsk at the end of 2012. It was the third attempt to create a pirate movement in Belarus.[1]
A website, online social network communities, and contacts with the pirate parties of various countries (such as Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Catalonia, and Spain) were created during half of the year.[clarification needed]
From April 19 to April 21 2013, the Pirates Center of Belarus took part in the general assembly of Pirate Parties International (PPI) and was accepted as an official member of PPI.[2] [3]
Purposes and Principles
The main purpose of the Pirates Center of Belarus is the dismantling of the existing copyright laws.[4] It also advocates:[5]
- Alternative licenses and the free choice of the author
- Openness and transparency in government decision-making
- Greater availability of high-speed Internet
- The right to privacy on the internet and in real life
- Free and open knowledge
- Open source software in the social sphere, education and culture
The Pirates center also claims to uphold the following principles:
- Openness
- Alternativeness
- Initiative
- Action
Directions of activity
Today (in 2013) the main activity direction is education, that includes organization if public lections, discussions, panel discussions, film viewings; [6] [7] [8]
- CryptoParties [9][10];
- meeting with informal creativists;
- taking part in IT-conferences;
- audio sets with pirates of different countries;
- learning copyright laws;
- localization of articles, video subs into russian and belarusian languages;
- writing reviews, making polls;
- gathering information for libraries and media base
and so on.
References
- ^ "Pirates appeared in belarusian internet". Deutsche Welle.
- ^ "Pump the right". kasparov.ru.
- ^ "First new from the General Assembly of Pirates International 2013". pirate-party.ru.
- ^ "What is copyright? Decompose on shelves". “Computer’s news” magazine’s site (kv.by).
- ^ "Generation of Pirates". “Belsat” channel.
- ^ "Presentation "Digital rights and copyright"". slideshare.net.
- ^ "Open source and social institutions". “Solit”conference.
- ^ "Belarusian copyright: trends and alternatives". “Solit”conference.
- ^ "Cryptoparty on Mediabarcamp". Mediabarcamp.
- ^ "Free lessons "How to be encrypted" on cryptoparty". tut.by.
