Pirate "Darknet" Opened in Sweden
Tracing spammers and hackers has now just gotten next to impossible...

This is just downright scary, an untraceable IP address. Imagine the amount of spam and hacking that will result from "Darknet" addresses. On the other hand, any ISP that uses Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For Comments (RFC) Email standards should not have a problem blocking email originating from "Darknet" IP addresses. If your ISP does not follow those standards have fun cleaning out your inbox.
I guess I have a problem with giving the general masses the ability to be "untraceable". Spammer/hacker issues aside, what about terrorists and their willingness to exploit this ability to be "untraceable". Scary.

Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a "darknet". The service allows people to use an untraceable address in the darknet, where they cannot be personally identified.

"There are many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet," says Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party. "If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check. The right to exchange information in private is fundamental to the democratic society. Without a safe and convenient way of accessing the Internet anonymously, this right is rendered null and void."

Read all about it here, courtesy of www2.piratpartiet.se:
http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/press_release_pirate_party_launches_worlds_first_commercial_darknet/

-Eric