World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden

[Arnold]

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[tab]The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are planning to shake up the country’s ISP market. After taking over the supply of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, Piratpartiet will now partner in the launch of Pirate ISP, a new broadband service that will offer anonymity to customers and provide financial support to the Party.[/tab]To defend the rights of BitTorrent users worldwide, the Swedish Pirate Party
volunteered to provide bandwidth to The Pirate Bay after previous hosts got
into legal trouble in May. At the beginning of July, the Pirate Party
surprised again. Not only would they be The Pirate Bay’s new host, but they
would use Parliamentary immunity to run the site from inside the Swedish
Parliament.

Now the Party have made another interesting announcement. Together with
technology partners, they will enter the broadband market with Pirate ISP, a
new service designed to deliver consumer Internet in line with the Pirate
Party’s ideals.

Gustav Nipe, student of economics, long-standing Pirate Party member and CEO
of Pirate ISP told TorrentFreak that Pirate ISP is based on the hacker
ontology. “If you see something and you think it’s broken you build a patch
and fix it. With that as a reference point we are launching an ISP. This is
one way to tackle the big brother society.”

“The Pirate ISP is needed in different ways. One is to compete with other
ISPs, let them fight more for our internet. If they don’t behave there will
always be someone else taking their share,” Nipe added.

Aside from the competition angle, Gustav Nipe told TorrentFreak that the
Pirate ISP will maximize privacy for all its customers. Operated by
ViaEuropa – the company behind the iPredator anonymity service – Pirate ISP
users will remain anonymous.

The service began beta testing in the city of Lund yesterday with around 100
residents of LKF, a housing organization whose aim is to provide quality
accommodations at a reasonable cost.

After the first two weeks of testing, the initial expansion aim is to take
5% of the market in Lund and then set up in further locations around Sweden.
This is a reasonable aim according to Nipe, who told TorrentFreak that they
start small so they can assure quality service to all their customers.

At the Hacknight conference in Malmö yesterday, Nipe further said that they
will not allow the Swedish Government to monitor Pirate ISP users and will
refuse to retain logs. He warned that any attempt to force it to do
otherwise will result in a constitutional issue.

Nipe was also clear on how Pirate ISP would respond to outside interference,
in particular that from the United States.

“They can bring on whatever they have, we will refuse to follow there. We
don’t agree with what they are saying and we don’t agree with the laws they
are making so if they have an issue with us, then we will have an issue –
but that’s it.”

For most potential Pirate ISP customers who intend to use the service to
file-share, the immediate threats will come from closer to home, primarily
from Henrik Pontén at Svenska Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish Anti-Piracy
Bureau. Nipe said they are prepared to deal with this challenge.

“It would be a pity to reveal all the tricks that we have, so we will save
those for later. But we have ways to ensure that no customer should have to
get a sad letter home from Henrik Pontén.”

For his part, yesterday Pontén seemed unimpressed.

“Our investigations have focused on people with much higher safety. The
question has been asked a thousand times before,” he said. “When the police
come calling, they must disclose the information.”

It seems that the wider Swedish public won’t have long to wait to discover
if Pirate ISP can live up to its promises. According to Nipe they will roll
out big in Sweden at the end of this summer.

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Sounds good.

[Kirrimir]

I hope this starts a revolution of Pirate ISP's around the globe.

[Thomas45]

[quote]run the site from inside the Swedish
Parliament.[/quote]

The server is going to be inside the Parliament?

[ashxu]

[QUOTE=Kirrimir;23492432]I hope this starts a revolution of Pirate ISP's around the globe.[/QUOTE]

Good luck trying to revolutionize China's ISPs

[BrainDeath]

[QUOTE=Kirrimir;23492432]I hope this starts a revolution of Pirate ISP's around the globe.[/QUOTE]
Why would you hope for that? So that everyone can pirate without worry of repercussion?

[marl karx]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492455]Why would you hope for that? So that everyone can pirate without worry of repercussion?[/QUOTE]

Filthy imperialist pig, get out of our way, we are having a pirate revolution here!

[Kazumi]

[QUOTE=Thom12255;23492445]The server is going to be inside the Parliament?[/QUOTE]

That's their goal. If they get into the parliament, they also get diplomatic immunity. Neither the police nore SÄPO (like FBI) won't be able to touch them.

[fippe]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492455]Why would you hope for that? So that everyone can pirate without worry of repercussion?[/QUOTE]
So that people do not have to pay 6 million dollars to RIAA just because RIAA says that they lost millions in profits because someone shared a song to 10 other people.

[marl karx]

[QUOTE=Kazumi;23492482]That's their goal. If they get into the parliament, they also get diplomatic immunity. Neither the police nore SÄPO (like FBI) won't be able to touch them.[/QUOTE]
Or the RIAA.

[BrainDeath]

[QUOTE=Fippe;23492486]So that people do not have to pay 6 million dollars to RIAA just because RIAA says that they lost millions in profits because someone shared a song to 10 other people.[/QUOTE]
How does a pirate isp help that?
The RIAA is retarded and so are pirates, sharing music however, is not piracy.

[marl karx]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492502]sharing music however, is not piracy.[/QUOTE]
They still think it is.

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492502]How does a pirate isp help that? [/QUOTE]
To defend their rights.

[Naofa]

[QUOTE=lockdown6;23492500]If I lived in Sweden I would totally switch to this.[/QUOTE]

I'd move to Sweden just to switch to this.

[BrainDeath]

[QUOTE=marl karx;23492521]They still think it is.

To defend their rights.[/QUOTE]

But why use a pirate ISP, I bet people are going to use it for more than just "sharing music".
in B4 linux distros

[Brunte]

:sweden:

[marl karx]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492541]But why use a pirate ISP, I bet people are going to use it for more than just "sharing music".
in B4 linux distros[/QUOTE]

Of coarse, but when they do "share music" they need it to defend them in-case they get in trouble.

[Oratrix]

I remember when they took TPB and worked around shit to give it parliamentary immunity, but this is just freaking crazy.
I know I'm not the only one who hopes this turns out well.

[BrainDeath]

[QUOTE=marl karx;23492573]Of coarse, but when they do "share music" they need it to defend them in-case they get in trouble.[/QUOTE]
Defend them? How so, all it is is a private isp service, not a crack team of trained attack lawyers.

[nikola631]

I:patriot: the :sweden: bring honor to your country as the best Pirates in the land!

[Hoffa1337]

:h::sweden:

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;23492587]Defend them? How so, all it is is a private isp service, not a crack team of trained attack lawyers.[/QUOTE]

Try prosecuting someone without knowing who they are.

[nikola631]

Watch the states try to ban this but we will fight!

[chamon]

Internet privacy :sweden: :love:

[Zolofto]

the RIAA/MPAA is going to get their panties in one big bunch now.

[mankind_me]

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;23492802]the RIAA/MPAA is going to get their panties in one big bunch now.[/QUOTE]

I can barely wait for their response, the butthurt assholes they are.

[Naofa]

[QUOTE=lockdown6;23492555]I'd move to Sweden if I knew Swedish.[/QUOTE]

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Lets roll.`

[Nilrus]

[QUOTE=lockdown6;23492555]I'd move to Sweden if I knew Swedish.[/QUOTE]

Sweden is very multicultural, English is taught from second or third grade in school I think, so if you know English you'll do fine.

Edit: Besides, swedish grammar isn't that different from english, main difference is that we don't have a word for "the", we add letters to the end of words instead instead of preceeding the word with another word.

ex:

Träd = tree while Trädet = The tree

[Naofa]

Actually, i've allways wondered, if Cute in swedish is söt what do you do for something like, cutie? as in "Your mother is a cutie."

[Hoffa1337]

[QUOTE=kenji;23493089]Actually, i've allways wondered, if Cute in swedish is söt what do you do for something like, cutie? as in "Your mother is a cutie."[/QUOTE]

Sötnos.

[Naofa]

Swedish is weird...

i should try and learn it.

[angelangel]

Parliamentary immunity, hot damn!

[slinkman]

Oh you awesome Swedes.