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Pirate “Darknet” Opened In Sweden
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjA3MDIsLCwsLCwx
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The Swedish Pirate Party launched a new internet service that allows people access to an untraceable address in the darknet for a fee of €5.00 per month. The service is provided by the Swedish high-tech company Relakks, which offers a neutral IP on top of your existing ISP service through a strongly encrypted VPN connection.

"There are many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet," says Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party. "If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check. The right to exchange information in private is fundamental to the democratic society. Without a safe and convenient way of accessing the Internet anonymously, this right is rendered null and void."


http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/pre ... l_darknet/
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(This is a static page with the press release. We got Dugg pretty hard yesterday and Slashdot just turned up. Welcome! You're late. :-)
Our regular page can be found at http://www.piratpartiet.se and you can read more and sign up for the Relakks service at http://www.relakks.com.
One question we get is if this works in the US. Yes, it does. The payment service appears to accept Euros only, but there will be an automatic currency conversion (which your issuing bank may charge you a small fee for) so the amount deducted will be in the vicinity of $6.4USD for a month.)

Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a "darknet". The service allows people to use an untraceable address in the darknet, where they cannot be personally identified.

"There are many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet," says Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party. "If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check. The right to exchange information in private is fundamental to the democratic society. Without a safe and convenient way of accessing the Internet anonymously, this right is rendered null and void."

File sharing of music, films, and other forms of culture is where the surveillance of Internet addresses has attracted the most attention, largely because the entertainment industry has been so aggressive in suing Internet users for copyright infringement, suing college students and single mothers alike without concern.

"But there are much more fundamental values at stake here than copyright," Rickard Falkvinge says. "The new technology has brought society to a crossroads. The only way to enforce today's unbalanced copyright laws is to monitor all private communications over the Internet. Today's copyright regime cannot coexist with an open society that guarantees the right to private communication."

"Until we have changed the laws to ensure that citizens' right to privacy is respected, we have a moral obligation to protect the citizens from the effects of the current routine surveillance," Falkvinge continues. "This is our technical means to do just that."

The service is provided by the Swedish high-tech company Relakks, which offers a neutral IP on top of your existing ISP service through a strongly encrypted VPN connection. Basically, this gives users the advantage of a Swedish IP address from anywhere in the world.

The cost of the service is 5 euros per month, and it is available now at http://www.relakks.com. A portion of the subscription fees will go towards the Pirate Party's work in changing the copyright and privacy laws and making the service obsolete.
About the Pirate Party:
The Pirate Party is Sweden's largest political party outside Parliament. It was founded in January, 2006, and is running for office in this fall's general elections. The party only has three issues on its agenda: shared culture, free knowledge, and protected privacy.

About Relakks:
Relakks provides services to help individuals to assure the security and integrity of their information. Relakks' responsibility stems from the strong Swedish tradition of protecting the integrity of private life and all forms of communication between individuals. Relakks - broadband Swedish style



For those not down on the technology, its like proxying, but a lot safe and more stable. In encypts your traffic also and then sends it through a spoof ip which unless these people are liars, will not have records of ownership.

This is a scheme launched by the pro pirate people in sweden, which is The Pirates Bay's political wing to all intents and purposes.

There is cost involved mind you, with anonymous proxies you can do a cheap way but usually that's very slow and http only, the darknet would be all ports.

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