The Swedish Pirate Party is branching out. The campaigning organisation has decided to launch its own ISP in an attempt to offer increased privacy and as a means of increasing revenue.
According to a post that it made on file-sharing site TorrentFreak, the Pirate Party is set to introduce the new service on a trial basis in the Swedish city of Lund. If the trial proves successful, the new ISP will be introduced across Sweden later in the year. Now if you’re not quite ready to fly the skull and cross bones, then there are still plenty of ISPs out there like Click Broadband in Australia.
According to TorrentFreak, the move follows the basic hacker premise of fixing something that is broken. Gustav Nipe, said “If 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. he 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.”