morphar

In denmark we have the danish communist party, which is exactly that... But no... There is no real support for it.

A party called something like "the unity party" has something like 10% percent of the votes!.. And they're actually an old fashioned communist party with modern ideas of how to "get there"...

It's really interesting to watch the news and listen to the ways words are being used and becomes labels, that are spreading across all news medias, until nobody remembers what the actual story was - just that it "sounds bad".

Good to know that I am not the only one concerned about privacy, without actually having anything to hide! :)

I agree with you totally! I am trying to raise my kid (soon kids), with a healthy scepticism towards authorities and authoritative sources of anything (science, history, anything knowledge)...

I hope that will help them think for themselves and hopefully become sensitive towards governments and how much authority they should be allowed to have.

I think we are at a dangerous point in time, where governments like US and Denmark where I live, are coming a bit to close to no longer being governing but actually controlling.

The idea of representatives of the people is dead - it is now the least worst choice of a few people sponsored by a tiny group of people, which is very often heads of large corporations... That makes "the peoples" interests waaaay less interesting, than the corporations.

With a tiny group of people shifting "the power" around amongst themselves, they're bound to get a distorted view of what "real" people are concerned about and what rights they should have. I think there is a tendency to generalize so much, that it becomes default to look at a population as a big non-feeling group with no real individuality and no real individual rights.

IMHO projects like this, should stop using the word "pirate". I think it is a boundary for people, to emotionally (though subconsciously) having to be o.k. with being seen (mostly by themselves) as "crooks".

You don't need to be doing something illegal, in order to want privacy...

Besides I think we should reverse the picture and make sure it is the secret spying eyes, that are seen as "crooks".

It is not me being mischievous for wanting privacy - it is the governments for not respecting my privacy.

The physical analogy of online spying, paint the right picture I think: Someone plants several cameras and microphones around your house. They have also someone following you around almost 24/7, to always know where you are. Why? Because you might one day do something, that may or may not be dangerous to between 1 and several thousand people - or at least talk to someone who know someone, who knows...... This is, by the way, not just you - it has been done to everyone on your street - oh... And the world...

I saw a film about the old east Germany and how they were spied on and thought wow! They were really aggressive with the spying and surveillance... Till it hit me: That was nothing compare to what is being done to virtually ALL "citizens" of the internet!..

Wow... That became a rant... Sorry... The word "pirate" got me started! ;)

I have a simple IP lookup site (http://showip.net) that I created many years ago. I created it because I needed it (but mainly too learn at that point ;) Since then it has gotten better and better indexing on Google until it reached a steady level at around 100.000 - 130.000 visitors / month.

The ads has been fluctuating quite a bit, but overall it has been going steadily up. Currently I earn somewhere between $250 - $500 / month.

I haven't done much but a bit of tweaking now and then since the initial version, though I have had plenty of plans... I have changed the GEO IP location DB a couple of times, but the only major change was a rewrite from PHP/MySQL to Node.js and a GEO IP database directly in NginX.

I would have to say: "nopes...", on this one ;)

I don't need this at the moment, but I think it is a very nice idea! At some point in the near future, I will probably find a use and buy it ;)

+1 for adding a screenshot on the website.

Whatever one might think of the Yakuza - this is an amazing and interesting article, that really should get you thinking - it has gotten me thinking anyways...

I am not saying you should change your mind on any subject - but the fact (no sources, only ekianjo statement and a few others I have spoken with over the years), that "The yakuza also acts as a form of local police" and better / more successful than most "authorized police" do, is a really interesting thing.

I know that it's not the smartest thing to let police, police themselves - especially when their income is through criminal actions. But maybe it would be interesting to dig out, why their ways seems to work better than many police forces. Which, by the way, also seems a corrupt at times.

A couple of things I think is interesting to think about:

What is corruption? Would if it was o.k. for a police officer to cover over his partners (minor) wrong-doings? Then it wouldn't be corruption... Family maybe?

What makes the Yakuza better at policing than police? A harder and better hierarchical structure? The concept of honor, but in a strong "family"-like context?

Is it just the plain old simple reason: people are... lets put it nicely: eager to not cross the wrong path?..