<p>Rates for satellites are crazy expensive, mostly the upload bandwith.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Anyway, satellites belong to countries, so, these country's law apply to them.</p>
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<p>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?</p>
<p>If the problem is "exiting" your country, just connect with VPN to a place where you can do so.</p>
<p>As a first example: Spain.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Kenneth</p>
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<p>On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:45:44 +0000, Rodrigo dA <rata_0071@hotmail.com> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 100%;"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored --><!-- < .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } --> This is an interesting project and is worth pursuing. I don't remember <br />who started the thread but we should open another list for this so we <br />don't spam those who are not interested. <br /><br />Rodrigo<br /><br />From: Gregory.Engels@piratenpartei-hessen.de<br />To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br />Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:05:34 +0200<br />Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] File Sharing in Space<br /><br />
<pre>On 19.10.2010, at 14:34, Stefan Sakowitz wrote:<br /><br />> But: None of these >private< satellite-assessments were<br />> private. Ariane-Space is a 100%-controlled by Nicolas Sarkozy.<br /><br />This is way oversimplified. Arianespace is a private company,<br />and only 32.53% of its shares belongs to the french CNES<br />(a state agency), 9.9% belongs to french Safran (basically<br />also the french state), 15.81% belongs to EADS<br />(on which the France holds 5.5%). So, if we sum everything<br />up, we'll get 58.25 % of shares on which France has a direct<br />or indirect influence. This is far from being "100%-controlled"<br /><br />> The american and russian space-control-centers are under<br />> control of specific political gangs. No privacy at all.......<br /><br /><br />There are at least three privatly owend and operated Mission Control <br />Centers<br />(MCC) - one in Newtown, Pennsylvania, US (Lokheed Martin)<br />one in Palo Alto, California, US (Loral), and one in El Segundo,<br />California (Boeing)<br /><br /><br />Gregory Engels<br />International Coordinator<br />Pirate Party of Germany<br /><br />mobile: +49 172 853 44 91<br />skype:gregory.engels<br />jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></pre>
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