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Piratpartiet Launches new Darknet P2P Service

Posted Aug 16, 2006 at 9:13AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: gaming accessories, MPAA, piracy, RAID, RIAA

This past June The Pirate Bay torrent site's headquarters were raided by Swedish authorities. Afterwards, the site quickly rebounded and it has been in near constant operation since. The site's operators were accused by corporate interest groups like the MPAA and RIAA of being at the center of the rampant piracy which was being conducted with impunity by the users of The Pirate Bay.

While there is little argument over whether or not illegal activity was taking place, representatives of The Pirate Bay and others claim that Bit Torrent technology is used (by tracking sites like The Pirate Bay) simply to track users, establish and maintain connections between the appropriate users and then wrangle the complex algorithms necessary to get complete files distributed to the entire swarm.

The technology itself and the tracker site operators that set up the bit torrent trackers are in no way in control over what material passes through the network. Since the raid, the MPAA and RIAA have continued to crusade against piracy on behalf of the company's that created them; and groups like The Pirate Bay, The Pirate Bureau and Piratpartiet (major Swedish Torrent supporters) have fought for Internet privacy and the right to have Bit Torrent treated as a legitimate technology.

The Piratpartiet is a quasi-political party that supports various causes related to Internet freedom and privacy. The Pirate Bureau is a similar organization (but one with political aspirations) that recently held a rally, together with the Piratpartiet, to show opposition to the Swedish government's decision to raid The Pirate Bay. In a related development that stems directly from the raid on The Pirate Bay in Sweden, Piratpartiet yesterday launched a new P2P service that will offer users an unprecedented level of anonymity. The new service allows anyone with a computer to send and receive files and information over the Internet "without fear of being monitored or logged."

The logging of IP addresses is becoming more and more common, and intellectual property owners are becoming more sophisticated in the methods they use to track, log and sue users of P2P technology of every stripe. Because of this, anonymity is becoming a near necessity for those engaged in file sharing or trading. Known as a "Darknet," the new network from Piratpartiet allows members to use "untraceable addresses so that they cannot be personally identified."

Unlike block lists and other IP address based technologies (like Peer Guardian) that are designed to keep users safe by blocking out the IP address blocks owned by certain companies and organizations that are known to track activity on P2P networks, Piratpartiet has a P2P technology that was designed from the ground up to provide anonymity by adding a Swedish IP address over the one given out by a users ISP.

Swedish high tech company Relakks provides the virtual provider network (VPN) technology that allows users of the new Darknet to appear to be local Swedish residents to the outside world instead of revealing a user's true and identifiable network layer information.

The VPN technology used by Relakks is also envrypted; adding another layer of protection into the system. "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."

Via Piratpartiet

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I'm surprised that this is on a qj front page. I'm not complaining, though.

And I'm not paying any amount of money just d/l n64 roms and crap. Also, I'm on dial-up, so my IP address is slightly different everytime. No one gets sued for downloading out of print nintendo games. It's no one's fault but Nintendo that my n64 memory card no longer functions and that I must play my games on PC.

# Sweet! — MjW 2006-08-16 10:23

I am voting for Piratpartiet this year!

# ok, this is psp related how? — Guest 2006-08-16 10:34

PSP. Not P2P. Not P5P, if you're trying to be all l337.

I realize this will get jumped up to about 1000 jumps, but it really is misplaced. I read the feed for psp news, such as homebrew, new psp news and so on. This item really pertains only loosely - and that is that this could allow people to download psp games without paying for them. That's not even news, legality aside, that's been the case forever.

I'm mainly complaining because valid traffic about psp, such as TyRaNiD's work, won't be jumped up, but "OMG WE CAN LEECHZORZ WAR#Z!!!" will. Not the sign of an INFORMATIVE feed.

# Lower the prices — Sr_Moska 2006-08-16 10:41

And I'll buy more original stuff

# Guest 2006-08-16 13:25

no one seems to realize that if you are having to pay for this service, then the mpaa and riaa dont need to track your ip address, when they can just go and get your BILLING INFORMATION from the operators. which naturally has all the info they need in order to find you.

# to number 3 — Guest 2006-08-22 12:00

P2P = Peer to Peer

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