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Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet

CrystalFalcon writes "The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously without being tracked or traced. '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.'"

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  1. swedish ip's by viniosity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Basically, this gives users the advantage of a Swedish IP address from anywhere in the world.

    That's what I call massaging the numbers!

    (Unfortunately,) I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waiter.
    1. Re:swedish ip's by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Be sure to tip the chef, otherwise you might be borked.

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  2. Slashdot: yesterday's news for nerds by Propaganda13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTA: "We got Dugg pretty hard and expect Slashdot to come visiting at any time now."

    1. Re:Slashdot: yesterday's news for nerds by richie2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Welcome! You're late. :-)

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  3. Re:Question? by dcapel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Re:Question? (Score:2)
      by dcapel (913969) on Tuesday August 15, @02:01AM (#15908566)
    (http://wot.narg.googlepages.com/)
    Records? What Records?!

    Re:Question?
      (Score:2)
      by mincognito (839071) Alter Relationship on Tuesday August 15, @02:01AM (#15908567)
    (http://thegreennotebook.blogspot.com/)

      If it is commercial, couldn't the company' records be subpoenaed (in a worst case scenario) by state/local/etc authorities?

      Records? What records?

    Ok, you are either copying me (your post id is one larger) or that is plain SCARY.

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  4. Re:Question? by mincognito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Re:Question? (Score:2) by dcapel (913969) on Tuesday August 15, @02:01AM (#15908566) (http://wot.narg.googlepages.com/) Records? What Records?! Re:Question? (Score:2) by mincognito (839071) Alter Relationship on Tuesday August 15, @02:01AM (#15908567) (http://thegreennotebook.blogspot.com/) If it is commercial, couldn't the company' records be subpoenaed (in a worst case scenario) by state/local/etc authorities? Records? What records? Ok, you are either copying me (your post id is one larger) or that is plain SCARY.

  5. Re:ah... by Xenna · · Score: 2, Funny

    I get nervous when things world gets so tense that some people don't recognise a joke like this anymore...

    X.

  6. Re:Question? by monoqlith · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the late 17th Century, Newton and Liebniz came up with Calculus almost simultaneously.

    Now, in the 21st century, we have 'dcapel' and 'mincognito' with identical, +1 Insightful Slashdot posts simultaneously.

    I call that progress.

    It's now time for you two to sue the pants off of each other for copyright infringement.

    Ready, set, call your lawyers...now!

  7. Re:Question? by mincognito · · Score: 4, Funny

    um, that was supposed to be funny but i forgot to copy the formatting. but seriously, that was an amazing coincidence. 1 in a 1,000,000. other people win the lottery, i simultaneously post the same message to slashdot as dcapel.

  8. Re:Awesome! by bky1701 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot to mention "think of the children!".

  9. Re:So it is an encrypted proxy service by xming · · Score: 3, Funny

    They just have a local copy/cache of piratebay.org

  10. Re:Question? by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
    Send it to Mythbusters :-)

    Why? So they can spend 3 weeks methologically "proving" that guns can't possibly work?
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  11. Er... by aiken_d · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

    I applaud their honesty, but I'm not convinced on this "you pay us monthly, and we'll destroy the service" business model.

    -b

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  12. Re:The math doesn't work, trust me by RajivSLK · · Score: 4, Funny

    You left out some important information; what's the name of your product? what does it do? and where can I download the crack?

  13. Re:So it is an encrypted proxy service by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just following british custom here...

  14. Now that is just... by SQLz · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is just down right, unamerican. 'If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check.' Its the governments job to watch over us and make sure we follow the teachings of jesus.

  15. Re:Rock On Dude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    PPTP is where Indians go whizz.

  16. Re:Reminds me of a saying by arevos · · Score: 2, Funny
    This reminds me of a saying that is quoted in "Digital Fortress", a book from Dan Brown

    I wouldn't admit to having read that particular trainwreck if I were you ;)