supportate i cugini francesi ;) -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [pp-leaders.discussion] Fwd: Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign Data: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:50:28 +0200 Mittente: Maxime Rouquet <[email protected]> A: PPI board <[email protected]>, [email protected]
FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:48:12 +0200 From: Maxime Rouquet <[email protected]> To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk <[email protected]> Dear fellow pirates, The Pirate Party of France is asking for citizens to share the ballot papers of some of its candidates to the upcoming June 10th Parliament election. Please, relay our call and share our ballot papers, to show that peer-to-peer and sharing are great for good purposes ! Regards, m * Original communicate in French : http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/2012/06/06/p2p/ * Translation : Peer-to-peer to support the French Pirate Party campaign Many of the 101 candidates of the French Pirate Party are asking their electorate to print their voting ballots, after retrieving it from their campaign websites. But the success of the French Pirate Party caused repeatedly overloads on our server, which is vulnerable, as any centralized system. As a result, we will this week-end distribute all of the concerned voting ballots via peer-to-peer, and are asking to people who can, and are willing to, to share them. The French Pirate Party restricted resources prevent it from being able to support its candidates campaigns, among whose several have made the choice to lead a "zero Euro" campaign. Even if the scores will obviously be low, even a symbolic success remains entirely possible thanks to the French Pirate Party campaign on the Internet, which supplies a website referencing the candidates and making it possible for people to download their voting ballots in order to print them [1]. But the past few weeks have proven that *the centralization of data was risky* : from the Alsace section's Twitter account being closed for a few hours due to a misunderstanding [2], to the French Pirate Party website who failed multiple times to support the visitors load (especially right after the broadcasting of our televised messages) [3]. Even without thinking about an abusive procedure like the one our colleagues from the PiratenPartei suffered [4], great are *the risks that our electorate will not be able to access our server during this week-end*, and as a consequence will not be able to vote for us. As a result, the French Pirate Party puts today to good use the *best technology for massive, decentralized and censor-proof distribution, which is not subject to overloading issues in case of great popularity : the peer-to-peer. By sharing today our candidates voting ballots via BitTorrent, we ensure that every voter will be able to get his/her hands on a pirate voting ballot, and support his/her candidate, no matter what happens during the week-end : accidents or censoring attempts. This is also a good way to remind everybody that the technology should never be demonized as such, and that a lot of righteous and virtuous uses of peer-to-peer should inspire our politicians at least as much as its impact on the distribution of digital arts. Our team has gathered and checked voting ballots from every one of our candidates : we encourage people in our electorate who will be printing their ballots to check them on Saturday. The file to share via peer-to-peer is currently being released on every communication support that we have, and we encourage every one willing to protect the democratic speech to share it. The torrent file can be downloaded here : https://cap.partipirate.org/pubarch/2012-01-preparation_legislatives/bulletins/des_candidats/bulletins_de_vote_pirates.torrent The direct magnet link is : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:981c376dd0f103dd1d93bbe77546f89aafa224e6&dn=bulletins_diy_parti_pirate_legis2012.zip [1] http://legislatives.partipirate.org/2012/vos-candidats/ [2] https://alsace.partipirate.org/spip.php?article54 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBP16ep6cuI [4] http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/plusieurs-serveurs-du-parti-pirate-allemand-saisis-sur-demande-de-la-france-39760991.htm [5] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P The Pirate Party of France, June the 8th, 2012 Statement released under the conditions of the CC-BY license. _______________________________________________ pp-leaders.discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pp-international.net/listinfo/pp-leaders.discussion _______________________________________________ Open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.partito-pirata.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open
