Posted on 08/15/2006 3:54:06 AM PDT by prisoner6
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 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
It ould probably have been better to just let Npaster, Kazaa, et all to run their course. By busting the file swapping community up, the RIAA, MPAA, etcetera pushed techies into stuff like the Darknet.
Wait until the muzzies start using it...
prisoner6
"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...."
This guy should be a Freeper......
Anyone have a favorite one of these sites? I like music--film scores, rock, etc, but particularly film scores, since rock stuff is readily available on all of them. You can FReepmail me if you don't want to say out in the open.
P2P has been private for a long time. What darknet does is allow private downloading of porn and other material where the sender and receiver can both be anonymized from each other.
Wait until the muzzies start using it...
They and the pediphiles are already on the waiting list.
" Swedish Pirate Party "
- Arrrrrrrggg
Acquisition!
Oh, yeah Thanks for the link too!
Shiver me timbers~
I thought the same thing! kept looking for a guy named 'Saaaarrrrssgaaaarrrrd' as the President! ;)
Grrrreeeeeaaaaaatttttttt!!!! More spammers, just what I need!
There are many such service already available from various commercial providers.
Or you can just use Tor, or Torpak.
Just remember: it all started with Arrrrgghhh-panet.
This should be sweet music to terrorists.
As always, the desire to steal ends up costing everybody.
Do you have any idea how many much better ways there are to anonymously post and retrieve data on the internet? Terrorists have no need of darknets to do their dirty work. Invoking 'terrorism' in this case is foolish. "Terrorism" is not the root passphrase to the Constitution.
bttt
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