[4] 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.

It is the belief of the party that these restrictions greatly hinder the sharing and expansion of knowledge and resources.

Its most recent is the Pirate National Committee (PNC), formed in 2012 as a coalition of state parties.

The party first attempted to register in Utah during the 2007/2008 election cycle and failed to collect the required number of Statements of Support.

[11] By July of that year, the PNC drafted and adopted a new constitution, which outlined a broader ideology inspired by Rick Falkvinge's Pirate Wheel.

For our hope that every person may be free to access all of human knowledge, we have been called "pirates".

For our belief that one need not ask permission to participate in governance, industry, culture, and other aspects of society, we have been called "pirates".

We stand for the liberty, equality, and solidarity of all human beings, and against all threats they may face.Factions within the Pirate Party include left-libertarians, classical liberals, anarchists, progressives, and radical centrists.

It solidified these tenets by publishing a series of essays in January 2012 where it voiced its values using quotations from historical figures, including Benjamin Franklin ("They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"), Mark Twain ("Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet"), Albert Camus ("The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion") and Thomas Jefferson ("Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty") in order to highlight the timelessness, urgency, and consensual agreement on its positions related to free culture.

^f Jay resigned on August 6, 2023, elevating Vice Chair Drew Bingaman to acting Captain pro tempore.