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The Pirate Party is an information age political movement.
No we aren't. We are advocating a fair use of means protected by obsolete copyright and patent laws.
As such we would like to see domains where scaricity does not exist be deregulated and domains where scaricity exist be more regulated.
That’s how the Big Shots call people who access or use information without paying for it.
I’m a Pirate, you’re a Pirate and we’re all Pirates. Why should we all be denied access to information, be prosecuted and be thrown in jail in a society where technology allows access to information, culture and knowledge.
Pirates are normal citizens who want to change the way our world is ruled. We want to “pirate” the current political institutions in order to create new rules , new ways of doing and thinking, and suggest a new democratic debate. We want to quit the "Business as usual" way of thinking.
We don’t exclude becoming one.
Political presence and having elected representatives isn’t our main goal. We see political presence just as a tool, a mean allowing people to react and express themselves when things go wrong. We want to be there.
This is what happened in Sweden and in Germany. This is what will happen in Belgium.
We are an officially registered political party in Belgium and participated to the 2010 Federal elections.
In order to participate we must firstly acquire 500 citizens’ signatures per electoral district.
Pirate Party Belgium was founded as a factual association. This aims to ensure the anonymity of it's members.
Under the Belgian legislation this implies that a factual association is an organization which only exists because of a common achievement or goal shared by its members. It is an association without a special judicial ground. The factual association can never be a part in contracts, can never own property, can never make donations or accept legacies.
To secure political independence, in most European countries, political parties are factual associations. Because of that status, they can never be condemned as a whole.
To assure the financial, administrative and logistical aspect of Pirate Party Belgium activity, a non-profit organization (NPO) is being incorporated. The board of the NPO is composed of the factual association representatives, future elected Pirates and field specialists. The purpose of the NPO is to solely be a support vehicle of the Pirate Party of Belgium and to comply with local regulations and laws whilst protecting our members.
Your membership will allow to shape the party and show your official support to our issues.
Because the Pirate Party Belgium is a factual association, when you decide to become a PPBe member, you'll be a member of the factual association. In other terms, this means that your name or any other personal information won't be disclosed to any Belgian authority. A factual association is a group of people sharing the same interest without a legal entity and therefore doesn't have to publish the list of its members nor financial statements.
You can become a member of the Pirate Party Belgium by following the steps on the membership page.
If you wish to donate a little or a lot, you can already do so by paying the membership fee. However, your time and effort are also more than welcomed. If you wish to help, sign up to the forum by creating an account on our website and contribute. Write an article, suggest an activity or a project, follow the local and international news, translate or help with the pirates manifesto. We need you to grow our party.
All donations are welcomed and we still need people willing to put time and effort in developing the pirate cause.
You can also send us a message using our contact form.
Yes and No. We can possibly be viewed as a single focus party, as we pay attention to the world of today and tomorrow, the Information and Knowledge Society.
At this very moment we have 3 core policies: shared culture, free knowledge and open society.
Our political manifesto is a work in progress and is currently being created with the help of all our members.
Your input and opinion are welcomed.
We don’t know. We don’t really feel concerned by this type of consideration. We live in the Global Village. Hence this question should be addressed to the classical political parties in Belgium. They’re all composed of former fractions or issued out of fractionation, and are more appropriate to handle questions related to Belgian political fractionation. They even like this and made it their number one topic . We feel we don't have any role to play here. We don't like hate groups.
None of them. We don’t feel concerned by this type of last century political models. Today’s society comes with new challenges which need new solutions. Left and right are XIX century concepts which aren’t capable of responding to today's challenges anymore. We don't consider the classical left-right axis defined by the sole distribution of wealth concept.
Definitely not. We don’t define ourselves in these terms. We’re all of them and none at the same time. Pirates come from different horizons and have different visions of the world. Pirates are free to have their own opinions and their own views. We try to listen to everyone, collaborate with everyone and make things match. We think that plurality is our strength, not a weakness.
No, we don’t. We want the patent system to be right-sized and fair. We question the fact that progress and innovation are blocked because of the ill constructed system. Not only Big Companies are entitled to protection and wealth but also any country in the world, rich or poor.
The actual system is such a mess that it would be better to rethink it as a whole and start over again for the benefit of ALL. The human mind is not for sale and information should be free.
No, we don’t. We want it to be right-sized and fair. Copyright systems have been put in place to protect people. Today they’re used to abuse, oppress and suppress people and competition. Today they impede evolution and the rapid deployment of real solutions that humanity needs. This is done to protect the revenue of a happy few.
No, we don’t want artists, innovators and scientists to work for free or be cheated on. In fact all of them should earn more money, as we want them to receive the major share of the revenue their work generates. This isn't the case today. Major corporations are up to huge efforts to make people believe there’s no other model than the one (ab)used by them. We see laws being passed to protect their way of doing, locking out new, more creative but less powerful players from the market. Those who create and innovate are almost never the ones who receive their rightful share. Things worked that way yesterday, things work like that today and we want this to change. We think that at least 3.5% of the country's GDP should be allocated to arts, innovation and science. More would even be better.
Truth is other ways of working do exist. We want to reform the obsolete system and create the means to correctly reward any artist, innovator or scientist. This is possible without having to mutate society into a kind of evolved and derailed Orwellian nightmare.
