[pp.int.general] File Sharing in Space

[kenneth at contralaguerra.org]

Rates for satellites are crazy expensive, mostly the upload bandwith.


A friend of mine rents satellite channels in Europe and Africa, however,
last time I asked (last year), it was something around 2000 USD / month for
1 symmetric mb +1800 USD in hardware for each point. 

Anyway, satellites
belong to countries, so, these country's law apply to them. 

If I were
you, I would forget about this thread. It looks pointless after checking
the costs. Why don't you simply do the filesharing in a country where it is
not illegal? 

If the problem is "exiting" your country, just connect with
VPN to a place where you can do so. 

As a first example: Spain. 

Ask the
people at Guifi.net, a free-citizen network here in Catalonia. They just
got a Peering agreement in Barcelona, so, they have a rack space and
bandwith. They were renting 1U space for 80 Eur/mo, and, this way, you also
help people from the social movements. 

Regards, 

Kenneth 

On Tue, 19
Oct 2010 13:45:44 +0000, Rodrigo dA  wrote:  This is an interesting project
and is worth pursuing. I don't remember 
who started the thread but we
should open another list for this so we 
don't spam those who are not
interested. 

Rodrigo

From: Gregory.Engels at piratenpartei-hessen.de
To:
pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010
15:05:34 +0200
Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] File Sharing in Space

On
19.10.2010, at 14:34, Stefan Sakowitz wrote:

> But: None of these
>private< satellite-assessments were
> private. Ariane-Space is a
100%-controlled by Nicolas Sarkozy.

This is way oversimplified.
Arianespace is a private company,
and only 32.53% of its shares belongs to
the french CNES
(a state agency), 9.9% belongs to french Safran
(basically
also the french state), 15.81% belongs to EADS
(on which the
France holds 5.5%). So, if we sum everything
up, we'll get 58.25 % of
shares on which France has a direct
or indirect influence. This is far from
being "100%-controlled"

> The american and russian space-control-centers
are under
> control of specific political gangs. No privacy at
all.......

There are at least three privatly owend and operated Mission
Control 
Centers
(MCC) - one in Newtown, Pennsylvania, US (Lokheed
Martin)
one in Palo Alto, California, US (Loral), and one in El
Segundo,
California (Boeing)

Gregory Engels
International
Coordinator
Pirate Party of Germany

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