The Embassy of Piracy is seriously concerned about the action of the French authorities voting yes to the Hadopi law which will make it possible to block our ambassadors from our own territory, the Internets.
As you are ambassadors of Internet you should write to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy:
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
…and continue
and end with
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Please write your proposal to Mr Nicolas Sarkozy in the commentary field now.
LETTER OF PROTEST to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
The Embassy of Piracy is seriously concerned about the action of the French authorities voting yes to the Hadopi law which will make it possible to block our ambassador from our own territory the Internet.
The Embassy of Piracy urges the French authorities to stop the implementation of the Hadopi law immediately and to undertake all necessary measures to stop the restrictions of the Internet in France.
Ambassadors of the freedom of Internet
For further information please contact:
The Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Tel.: Piracy hotline +46 123772023
Email: embassy@embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr President,
A lot of challenges we face are more momentous than the threat of global copyright. But, the current provisions of the Hadopi law are a matter of ancient debate. The situation is becoming urgent, and it is time for consensus and action.
There are many strategies for curbing people’s uprisings against ones governance without openly limiting free communications. In fact, the spread of advanced, open technology is more of an economic opportunity than a peril. We urge you to develop a plan to corrupt your parliament in a pro-internet direction. The future of our children—and their children—depends on the resolve that you and other world leaders show.
Best regards
Dr Rignell
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Don’t you think that real criminals should be prosecuted?
Don’t you think that gun-makers encourage crime more than torrent sites?
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Considering the plight of millions of people on this planet, it confounds me that our leaders can find nothing better to occupy it’s time. Censoring the World Public from communication is not only wrong….but isn’t censorship illegal?
With Warmest Regards,
Penelope
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Your Country was, in the past, leader of one of the biggest revolutions in Europe.
So Again, make your country proud of itself, in the name of the words important for all the people you lead “Liberte’ Egalite, Fraternite” make the right decision, give freedom istead to remove it.
Now internets represent all that valor you have in the slogan of the revolution
Be solidal with the people.
Be free. Enjoy the kopime Way of life.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Dear Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Protector of life, liberty, and the pursuit of sustainability
Do you really want to lead the way into blocking the free exchange of information on the internet? Do you really want to open Pandora’s box on this one? Do you not realize that the motivated and well informed consumer is a force to be reckoned with? This can only be the beginning of the end for the internet, and what is means to the first world, for it is the only way we can freely know about what’s going on in the third world nations. Monitoring and stopping copyright infringement is only the first step in placing the global police state that is already springing up all around us onto the internet, now the only safe haven of those who care to know. I plead with you O father, let us be!
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Nous sommes tous d’accord pour dire que vous ne cherchez qu’à protéger uniquement les intérêts de vos petits amis industriels, ici, l’industrie du disque.
Mais sachez que l’art et la culture n’ont pas toujours étaient des industries du capital, elles sont le fruits de la création humaine et même si vous vous plaisez à galvauder le termes “d’artiste” en lieu et place de “star” qui est plus approprié dans toutes les émissions de la culture de masse, l’art restera l’objet du partage des hommes.
Le temps du business modèle des majors touche à sa fin, bientôt des générations toutes entières comprendront les enjeux qu’il y a à rendre la culture gratuite pour tous et demanderons des comptes, qu’ils obtiendrons comme à chaque fois car l’intérêt général est la masse des intérêts particuliers réunis, alors pourquoi, Mr le président, retarder l’inéluctable ?
Des solutions ont pourtant étaient proposées, la licence globale par exemple.
Mais la solution au fond n’est telle pas le piratage en lui même ? Car il est certain que si une famille ne peut pas s’offrir le luxe de se payer un album qu’elle télécharge illégalement, elle n’aurait pas pu se l’offrir avec ou sans téléchargement. En ce sens le téléchargement ne baisse pas les ventes. Mais si une famille peut s’offrir le luxe d’acheter un support médias contenant une oeuvre, alors elle aura téléchargé l’oeuvre pour être sûr de son choix.
Le vrai problème, c’est de faire comprendre à un gouvernement conservateur, capitaliste et dépassé, que les vrais artistes, de qualités, se contrefichent du téléchargement, la gratuité de la culture leur semble aussi être la solution pour l’ouverture et contre la paupérisation. Nous devons malheureusement payé les lubies de quelques stars pour qui l’argent demande toujours plus… d’argent.
We are all agree to say that you are just looking for the protect of your friends CEO and majors.
But let you know that art and culture hadn’t always be industry of capital, they are the fruits of the human creation and even if you want to tarnish the word “artist” in loco of “star” who is more apropriate in all mass culture broadcast, art will stay the object of the human share.
The time of the major business is done, soon, generations will understand the interets of make the culture free for all and will ask for repair and you know what ? They will win ! So why mr president, delay the inevitable ?
Solutions are nevertheless here, the concept of global licence for example.
But, into the deep, the solution is may be, the piracy himself ! A family who can’t buy a cd who will download it illegaly, will never buy the cd anyway. So the sells are safe. But a familly who can buy a cd would like to try it before to be sure of his own choice.
The true problem it’s to make understand to a capitalist government, that the true
artist, the artist of quality, don’t care of the downloading, the freedom is the solution for him too against the impoverishment. Unfortunatly we have to pay for the thirst of money of the majors.
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
I am disturbed by the potential passage of the HADOPI law. Although I am biased in my opinion regarding the HADOPI law, I am deeply disturbed by the fact that the three violations of file sharing laws must only be alleged, not necessarily substantiated. If nothing else, the proposed version of the HADOPI law is not yet refined enough to be both fair and practical. I ask that you at least consider the faults of this new proposed law in the near future.
Thank you for all consideration and good luck in all future matters.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
The Embassy of Piracy is seriously concerned about the action of the French authorities voting yes to the Hadopi law which will make it possible to block our ambassadors from our own territory, the Internets.
As you know, your “real world” is become more and more reliant on the internet for its day to day existence and identity. Denying your people the internet will only deny the internet of your peoples culture and input which, while a shame, will ultimately not stop or otherwise adversely affect [the internets] at all. Also you would demonstrate your governments position as supplicant of the moneyholder, rather than representative of the citizen. Or embracer of the future.
France is historically known for liberty and progression. Please think of the ambassadors who are your citizens and not the board of shareholding foreigners who, i assure you, do not care about your country or culture beyond its euro$.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Should we be after Child Molesters, and Rapists instead of torrent downloaders?
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
What we formerly known as democracy has become a system co-opted by financial and corporate interests. It is ok, is your system and we respect it, although we don’t really accept it. But in a democratic world many systems must be allowed to co-exist peacefully.
We @ the Internets, have a very different system, it is based on democracy too but our drive isn’t greed and power. We believe in participation, creativity and sharing for the benefit of all our peers.
We invite you to analyze the hopeless possibilities that your capitalistic system offers and the devastating consequences, that the Hadopi Law offers to your own structures.
During the years, we have developed and nourish simple and effective infrastructures, to build our Internets. We would be delighted to share and implement our knowledge with you, according to the urgent needs of your system, to help you join the new world.
Why don’t you relax, get a glass of wine, play that BeeGees record you like so much and search the internets for something you really love. When you find it, download it, print it, read it listen to it, watch it (or whatever it suits best). Enjoy it!
Please do not hesitate in contact us after this exercise. We would love to hear your experience and start a diplomatic conversation within this context.
Best Wishes,
Ambassador of the freedom of Internet
Embassy of Piracy
For further information please contact:
The Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Tel.: Piracy hotline +46 123772023
Email: embassy@embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
I`m waiting for my optic cable so i will have a lots of Mbits and i will download and share everything even the things i dont like. If you dont agree with that you can bombard my country again with nato forces and will be again on roof top making videos of the bombardment and smile upon the planes like in 1999. Thanks for the depleted uranium and other stuff.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Fuck you!
Freedom will find the way.
We will find the way.
This will not stand.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
PS.
French Senate is expected to adopt the bill today. Maybe there’s still something we can do?
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Hi there Mr. Sarkozy. I request that you shutdown ThePirateBay at once since they post a big threat to movie industries and music industries alike.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
nicolas sarkozy, nous manger le murde
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Copyright, DRM,Fair and Public Domain are all important and require serious thought and consideration. The Hadopi law is something that should also have much thought. If it does not properly address all aspects of an issue then it is not a law that should be passed.
The public domain is something that has far too long been ignored and neglected. If it continues to be neglected the French, world and internet communities will all suffer for it. In those very communities of which you are also part of each to some extent will be a victim of the continued neglect. You are in a position to do what is truly best for many.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Sharing is Caring.
The most time I spend on the internet is file sharing.
I download frequently such that I need to purchase bigger external hard drives.
If not for file sharing, what need would I have to buy such expensive accessories?
I’m a student with no job.
Thus the things I spend my funds on, I must truly desire.
Why is it legal for companies to proliferate viruses that damage a person’s computer and thus force them to buy a new one or purchase expensive virus protection software?
Why is it legal for internet providers to limit bandwidth when it is so abundant?
How is it that they can force people to pay more money for greater speed?
That’s like paying someone to lift their foot off the water hose for each millimeter.
Please Mr. Sarkozy, it is unjust to strip from the public their right to communicate.
If artists can overcharge and make ridiculous profits, and corporations can use dishonest truths to funnel the blood money of unsuspecting households, why can’t we share the little we have left?
Sharing is Caring,
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
France is the place where I will never go to visit…..it’s a place with shit men as politcian…. lobbies lobbies and lobbies….. mafia and camorra!!!
Letter to Head of French State Nicolas Sarkozy
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Technology should be used by and distributed to, ALL mankind. Intellectual copyright laws are now defunct. I used downloaded software to learn my trade, now I pay for it. You cannot stop the flow of information, it is free, there can be no such thing as intellectual piracy beyond the year 2009. Everyone you know has a pirate in their family. It is easier for a child to get than drugs or alcohol. Lets all chill huh?
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Dear Mr. President,
You’ve proven yourself to be a very wise politician in various hard Middle Eastern questions. I am sure that you’ll finally come to a conclusion that denial of democracy in your own land may lead to unrepairable damage of your image outside your land.
Be wise as always,
Good luck!
A democracy is built upon trust and openness. To censor the people of your country is to close the doors of democracy and become a fascist dictatorship.
This statement may sound alarmist but the lines between regimes are thin, nigh invisible. Be the leader the world knows you ought to be (The leader your people voted you in to be) and stand up for the greater good of the world.
The internet is not a government play-thing nor a corporate battle-ground. The internet is freedom of speech and all that is good about democracy.
May the 13th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
as a citizen of the European Union and an ambassador of Internet I’m opposed by the regulation you and your goverment want to impose on my fellow Europeans and members of the Internet.
We cannot stand this. Internet is for freedom of speach and democracy, when did France stop carrying about these things? Please stop before it is too late, who knows what will come next? Restrictions on what papers can write or TV to send? Do not let it come to that. Stop now, while we can.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
It saddens me to see that YOU! are one of the first country’s to mess with the extensiveness of the internet. a country alot of ppl have looked at and thought “thats a nice place” “a liberal and free place” i thought this censorship plots where only even thought by dictators and such, however did you ever stop for a minute to think about the consequences it will have to apply some kind of censorship on the web? today we got kids from korea playing games and browsing communities together with black,chinese,british,scandinavian,russian,chinese,mongols and the list goes on. the web changed the world and made the world smaller and more connected!
and YOU are one of the first ever! to try and take the spirit away from the internet and the filesharing act…
the freedom of the internet must be kept the way it is! especially with war going on and global terrorism, mobs and such… how about trying harder to stop smuggling of all types, stop the guys selling crystal meth to school kids, murders, mobs, gangbangers, etc! pay attention to real crimes!
im sorry to say but i think the world is getting pretty sick of france already with the nonsense thats been deriving from there.
honestly this seam to look like some type of conspiracy… all the people of the boards that propose this stuff are on the paylists of the record companies and are all trying to secure only their own profits since the filesharing scene is about 99.9% non-profit projects…
just take a little look at the following
fra-lagen
ipred
ipred2
Q6/17
ACTA
heck but throwing ppl in jail for sharing an “none physical” copy of a movie… i dont know but hell isnt that about extreme?
oh yeah and sir! make sure u keep an extra eye on your children because like most other kids they are probarly downloading and sharing stuff aswell
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
May the 13th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
As a citizen of the Netherlands and being an European Union as well as an ambassador of Internet I’m very disappointed by the plans of your government. You can’t shut down our homes (the internet), that’s just wrong. It’s like breaking down the houses of your own countrymen.
Thepiratebay and all the other torrent sites can’t be completely shut down. There will always be a next site or other people that will carry on the embassy of piracy.
I kindly ask you to reconsider your plan!
Embassy of Piracy.
http://embassyofpiracy.org
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
As a citizen of EU and an ambassador of internet I am upset at the prospect of not being able to download movies and other material from the net. You see I know a time before the net. During most of my teens I hardly used the internet. I spent many summer months reading books. I was just getting bored and I had nothing better to do. I am not bitter about that because I have read many books like War & Peace by Tolstoy and The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein. However, I wish that I had the ability to download a movie or two. Back than of course there really was no way for me to do so. The internet in my area hardly existed and the hardrives have very low capacity. Not to mention that pirate bay did not even exist. However, I made it through those days albeit I got very board many times. The period now where I can download movies seems to me like a logical continuation. I have entertainment now at my fingertips. Some thing that I longed for in those days.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
May the 14th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
As an Ambassodor of Piracy and part time God i have to ask you to reconsider your action. Jesus multiply bread and fish like seeders multiply digital files on piratebay tracker.. its not a sin, its a MIRACLE
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
They will never stop anything because they don’t know how to, they are just poor lamez with lot of money. http://ipodah.net/ the french copy of ipredator.se
but I hope this will be a good lesson and french people will think before voting.
It will just increase zombied machines. During the debate they did not explain anything technically except the retarded culture minister who said that openoffice integrates firewall
btw, there is no luck that sarkozy read what you say, because he said in a TV doc that he never used a computer.
/Cali
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Make it legal in your land, its may be the only reason I come to visit your lands. You can turn it legal and tax it make your people happy and enrich your lands. Make money on a new tax that is for something new not raising tax on the old. and they will love you for it.
-CEASAR KEN
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
infocrime, artcrime, knowledgecrime, musiccrime?
the criminalization of information hearkens back to an era of bookburning fascism.
do not kill our internet.
the true crimes are crimes of genocide and war.
get straight!
je deteste la criminalization de la informatie!
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr. Sarkozy,
We want to mention, as a brief introduction, one of the most lucid, perceptive and intelligent thinkers than granted France to this world:
«J’aimais l’auteur du livre de l’Esprit [Helvétius]. Cet homme valait mieux que tous ses ennemis ensemble; mais je n’ai jamais approuvé ni les erreurs de son livre, ni les vérités triviales qu’il débite avec emphase. J’ai pris son parti hautement, quand des hommes absurdes l’ont condamné pour ces vérités mêmes.»
Voltaire
Questions sur l’Encyclopédie
Probably we know that quote in its more apocryphal, more popular and more synthetic form, the one that an inspired Evelyn B. Hall summarized it, in his name, in 1906:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. »
Yes, of course, Inspiration.
We have inherited the brave image of an historic France that has fought itself through the history against the ignorance, the oppression and the tyranny using as its only effective arms “L’intelligence et la plume”. This fight has brought the light of freedom and tolerance to the more remote and darker corners of our world. These ideas, thanks to their propagation, have freed us and they have let us grow up.
The Universal Declaration of the Human rights (DUDH), adopted by the General Assembly of the UN in 1948 (Resolution 217 A (III), December the 10th, 1948) generally considered as the declaration par excellence on international human rights. Its article 19, of obligatory observance for all the States by the international right public, consuetudinary, guarantees the right to the freedom of expression and information in the following terms:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Time has passed. Today, from the quietness our daily comfort; we watch horrified the return of a new obscurantism rising in the heart of this big country:
February the 10th, 2009. The Mrs. Morano’s Lawsuit: the greatest “première” in the online video history. Nadine Morano, French Secretary of State for the Family, overreacting about the received comments against her, for her published video (in favor of the filter implementing over Internet), push the Police to demand YouTube and Dailymotion to provide them with the IP addresses of the internet users who have left comments against the secretary.
According to the newspaper 20 Minutes, the judicial require sent to Dailymotion and YouTube stipulates that both sites must “provide in all urgency the dates, hours and IP addresses and all other identification element used to publish the comments online, here attached, of internet users whose pseudonyms follow here…”
Even the most less-educated of the political analysts understands that behind each evocation of the political class “claiming for protection against defamation or whatever like that” it exists the profuse intention to instrumentalize fear to dissuade the common citizen to raise his/her critical voice.
Internet has become a worldwide opportunity of equality, which gives us the chance to make each voice as important as other one. Like all force without owner, so the freedom, that causes fear.
May the 7th, 2009:
The Person in charge of Web innovation, working for TF1 (a powerful French media network), was dismissed by expressed his personal and technical point of view, against the “Hadopi” law, in a personal email sent from his private email account to the parliamentary representative of the 17° arrondissement of Paris (his neighborhood). A letter, which in an incomprehensible way, was quickly sent back (“recommended”) to the legal director of TF1 by Minister of Culture Christine Albanel. Final reason for the dismissal: “divergences with the TF1 strategy”.
Today we are not talking about protecting the artistic creation with the law Hadopi, today we are talking about protecting a gang of already obsolete Dinosaurs and Mafiaas that try in a desperate way to conserve a model that has never, never, really promoted the artistic creation as itself. Until your own wife, surely in a difficult position in these times, deeply shares this true, as she expressed it to “Envoyé Spécial” in 2004.
But we need to stop for a second. Such problem about the copyrights, we are not really talking about this. It is not the real problem finally. The true is about the risk behind. It is not only about directly denying the legal status as fundamental right to the access to Internet, it is about opening a dangerous door for political control and censorship of the private life. If we control which shared information is protected by copyright at the same time also we are controlling all shared information, even which we shared in a strictly private character and not covered by any copyright. And we cannot deny the danger implied in that. If we spied to look for what is bad we must watch what is good, the problem is we are talking about spying privacy, we are talking about the risk of censorship, were talking about watching inside our homes. Finally we will leave all this responsibility to a susceptible administrative organism which could fall into several abuses and political manipulations, even worse, working without involving the Justice. An Organism which will decide who has the right to use Internet and who hasn’t it.
And this Organism will be rule by people like Mrs. Morano, like Mrs. Albanel.
Have we really lost ourselves?
Do we really want to go in this direction?
Are we not sufficiently intelligent to look for alternative models that do not put in risk our freedom?
Does the Freedom matter honestly?
We don’t doubt by a single second about your capacity to push this law as far as possible.
But finally, Mr. President, do you really want to be remembered in the future as the man who incited the destruction of Internet as a free world that gave us the chance to evolve?
Do you really think that satisfying certain obscure and egoistic interests worth it?
“I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Meter. »
De Gaulle
This phrase from De Gaulle seems, nowadays, from another and distant time.
Freedom cannot be reduced to be our slave, but it may just be possible to us to learn how to take care and to respect it.
Let us hope not to realize about its value when we lost it.
Let us hope no to come back to darker ages.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
The Embassy of Piracy is seriously concerned about the action of the French authorities voting yes to the Hadopi law which will make it possible to block our ambassador from our own territory the Internet.
The Embassy of Piracy urges the French authorities to stop the implementation of the Hadopi law immediately and to undertake all necessary measures to stop the restrictions of the Internet in France.
Ambassadors of the freedom of Internet
For further information please contact:
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
You should keep in mind that you have the right to act as the leader of France for one reason, and on reason only. You are chosen by the people of France, and there for you are to act upon the wishes of the inhabitants of your country not the wishes of the media industry.
I’m certain that this will prove very costly for you in the next election when your employers can make their voices heard once again.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
100% agreed from a Parisian Frenchman. I usually back Sarkozy and the right-wing but on this decision he just ruined all my support for this freedom-hating government.
May the 12th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
Hey Nicolas,
If your people like BitTorrent and TPB let them have it, free and uncensored.
and you wont be out of a job come election time.
Simple.
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org
viva la Pirat’ Byran’
May the 17th 2009/ Internet
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,
By approving the law you have proven that France is not worthy to be a representative för democracy.
Thus I vote for the immediate closure of the official organisations of the EU, including
The European Parliament,
The International Institute of Human Rights,
The European Council,
The permanent office of the Human Frontier science programme,
The European Regional Development Centre,
The European cultural TV channel Arte
all lying in Strassbourg, France
Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org