Swedish Pirate Party plans for Pirate ISP

Two members of the Sweden’s Pirate Party, or Piratpartiet, have big plans to launch its own ISP named Pirate ISP to cultivate efficient content sharing. Pirate ISP will work with ViaEuropa to ensure subscribers are kept anonymous and will not keep logs to prevent government from monitoring the users.

In order to use the service, Pirate ISP subscribers need to be technologically adept as users are responsible for fixing and maintaining their service.

"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," said Pirate ISP CEO and Pirate Party member Gustav Nipe.

Henrik Pontén of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau is confident that the ISP will have to surrender information required by the police, just like everyone else. But it remains to be known how this will happen if the ISP has no logs to give to the authorities.

Read more about the Pirate ISP at ars technica.

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