Specialized hosting pirated content in Russia
Russian Pirate Party is busy creating a dedicated hosting – Piratehost.net. Information posted a blog vice chairman of the organization Stanislav Shakirov. He motivates the actions of the Party that is a response to attempts by the state to regulate the Internet. According to them, since November 2012 (the date of registry operations sites with information gap, whose work is included in a locked resource) in the register of wrongfully included about 3,300 sites. They were the same IP-address as that of the banned domains.
Shakirov told “Vedomosti” that the party does not have its data centers, only leased facilities in Asian and European countries, and an agreement with the local Internet operators to switch traffic. He is ready to offer hosting services to projects that pursue law enforcement agencies of their respective countries, including Russia and. This includes resources of information that violates copyright laws and political projects. He explained his point of view, the fact that information is not prohibited. There is information that the state would not want to advertise. Or is it something that concerns some corporations that do not want to make public some aspects of its activities. Still, some types of content Shakirov not be tolerated. This applies to spam, carders who steal credit card numbers, phishing sites, lure personal information, child porn.
Create pirate hosting pursues not only ideological goals, but also from a business decision. Pirate hosting will be paid.
Those who rent a server for information sites, contrary to Russian law, the vice-chairman is not recognized. It is known that such hosters exist in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, Malaysia, Germany. Where the party takes the money for this project, who is funding it, Shakirov too silent. He just mentioned that there are willing to support the project both in Russia and abroad.
Organizers understand that, if set a goal, you can block objectionable officials domain. To this end, measures will be taken to block access to sites hosting pirated clients with official IP-addresses. Shakirov promises alignment traps for officials to protect customers from unwanted visits to them from IP-addresses of public bodies. For this plan to create pages that will be held pre-filters Roskomnadzora et al. State agencies. Then will be monitored addresses of visitors, page markers that will be entered in the blacklist. This kind of response to the blacklisted officials.