Following their spectacular successes in the Berlin state election at the end of 2011 as well as in the federal state elections in Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia in spring 2012, everybody was suddenly talking about the PIRATES. The entry of the “new Greens” into the German Bundestag seemed to be imminent and in Austria too, the Pirate Party leaping into Parliament seemed to be a foregone conclusion. A few months and a further aggravation of the economic and financial crisis later it has become significantly quieter for the political newcomer.