[NetBehaviour] Pirate Party Launches World's First Commercial Darknet.

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Pirate Party Launches World's First Commercial Darknet.

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.

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