The Swedish Pirate Party Launches Anonymous Internet Service

[Stockholm]

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."

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.

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"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."

more http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/060815AnonymousDarknet.html

Other sources:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/08/15/Swedish_politicians_offer_untraceable_internet/
http://technocrat.net/d/2006/8/14/6795

Link to and information about the Pirate Party http://www2.piratpartiet.se/international/

[Vidar]

1. Yet another reason to love Sweden.

[darkism]

2. Länge leve Piratpartiet!

It's great that they don't have a bullshit war going on and can fight in favor of more progressive issues.

Rösta med Piratpartiet på 17 september!