Samir Allioui
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Samir Allioui aka "Coretx" (b. 1983) is a Dutch
Dutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 politician, co-founder and former president of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands (Piratenpartij Nederland), which was formally registered on the 10th of March 2010, but active since late 2006. [REF] Besides Jerry Weyer
Jerry Weyer
Jerry Weyer is a Luxembourgian politician and has been co-president of Pirate Parties International since 1st of March 2010...

 from Luxembourg he has been co-president of Pirate Parties International
Pirate Parties International
Pirate Parties International is the political international of the Pirate Party movement. It was formally founded in 2010 at the PPI conference in Brussels, Belgium.-Aims:The PPI statutes give its purposes as:...

 (PPI), the umbrella organization of the international Pirate Party
Pirate Party
The Pirate Party is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide, forming the international Pirate Party movement....

 movement Together with Patrick Mächler
Patrick Mächler
Patrick Mächler aka "Valio" is a Swiss politician and member of the Pirate Party Switzerland . Besides Samir Allioui from the Netherlands he was co-president of Pirate Parties International from July 2009 to February 2010, the umbrella organization of the international Pirate Party movement Both...

 from Switzerland he followed Andrew Norton as chairman of PPI in July 2009. Mächler stepped down as PPI interim Co-President on Allioui's side in favour of Jerry Weyer who was elected on 1 March 2010. Gregory Engels followed Allioui as Co-President on 18 April 2010. Samir [DATE] got re-elected co president during the 2011 Pirate Parties International conference in Friedrichshafen Germany and has been elected in to the member council of PPNL on May 22nd 2011.

Involvement in Hactivism & Pirate politics

Samir Allioui has a long history of engagement in information policy ranging from hactivism in the early 21st century leading up to his current involvement in the parliamentary aspects of policy making. He was the first to introduce the dead weight loss argument into the "pirate" debate on intellectual property issue such as patent law and copyright law. During the Shareconference in Belgrade Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

  he presented detailed set of arguments pointing out several ontological mistakes considering intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 concept, and their social and economical implications such as deadweight loss
Deadweight loss
In economics, a deadweight loss is a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal...

 and rent seeking
Rent seeking
In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to derive economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by adding value...

. During his visit to Serbian pirates he gave an interview for a major Serbian political magazine NIN (magazine)
NIN (magazine)
NIN is a weekly newsmagazine published in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name is an acronym for Nedeljne informativne novine which roughly translates into Weekly Informational Newspaper....

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