United States Pirate Party

The United States Pirate Party (USPP) is an American political party founded in 2006 by Brent Allison and Alex English (activist)|Alex English]]. The party's platform is aligned with the global Pirate movement, and supports reform of copyright laws to reflect open source and free culture values, government transparency, protection of privacy and civil liberties, rolling back corporate personhood and corporate welfare, evidence-based policy, and egalitarianism and meritocracy based on the hacker ethic.