German Pirate Party

The next big surprise came from the Member of European Parliament, socialist Jörg Tauss, who left the German Social Democratic Party and joined the Piraten Partei, the German Pirate Party, created after the Swedish example.

Pirates Board European Politics: The Internet's First Political Party 2009

The German Pirate Party, which participated in German elections for the first time on 27th September this year (in the European elections it won 0.09% of the vote), expected to cause a shockwave through the votes of the younger generation.

Pirates Board European Politics: The Internet's First Political Party Gutierrez-Rubi, Antoni 2009

The German Pirate Party, which participated in German elections for the first time on 27th September this year (in the European elections it won 0.09% of the vote), expected to cause a shockwave through the votes of the younger generation.

Pirates Board European Politics: The Internet's First Political Party 2009

The German Pirate Party, which participated in German elections for the first time on 27th September this year (in the European elections it won 0.09% of the vote), expected to cause a shockwave through the votes of the younger generation.

Pirates Board European Politics: The Internet's First Political Party 2009

German police raid German Pirate Party's serviers two days before election Cory Doctorow at 12:23 AM Saturday, May 21, 2011

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

In response to the takeover of its servers, the German Pirate Party has been tweeting up some sturm und drang today, and its "#servergate" hashtag is the second highest "trending" tag in Germany.

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

The German Pirate Party has long hosted an installation of the open source EtherPad under the name "PiratenPad," and the PiratenPad install was a particular favorite of Anonymous.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011

The German police raided the German Pirate Party's servers; they claimed that the GPP was running an EtherPad instance that was being used by Anonymous activists to plan an attack on French energy giant EDF*.

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

Acting on a French request for assistance, German police today confiscated German Pirate Party servers-apparently hoping to search the prominent collaboration tool widely used within Anonymous to select targets for attack.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011

In response to the takeover of its servers, the German Pirate Party has been tweeting up some sturm und drang today, and its "#servergate" hashtag is the second highest "trending" tag in Germany.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011