Blackbeard Blackbeard Edward Teach or Edward Thatch ( – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were
Pirate Party (France) Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society" better known as DADVSI. Due to dissension a new section of the Pirate Party emerged in 2007, called "Parti pirate français Canal historique" (PPFCH). On 4 April 2009, the foundation of the Pirate Party as an organisation was published in the "Journal officiel de la République française" (page 1663, no. 1795). PP and PPFCH had similar aims and reunited in summer of 2009. Already during the debate on the HADOPI law a further pirate party named "Parti pirate français" (PPF) appeared, founded by Rémy Cérésiani. The PPF, which had an identical logo