VPN Service

We are reintroducing our VPN service for anyone who makes a donation to the Pirate Party of Canada. Using this service, you can keep all of your Internet traffic private and secure, by relaying it through our VPN server via a securely encrypted and authenticated channel. It will also be used for secure communications between Pirate Party members. We feature an open source Linux server running OpenVPN, 4096 bit public key encryption, 256 bit symmetric encryption, SHA512 message authentication, perfect forward secrecy, and the latest supported TLS v2.0 cipher suites. Connections are made through the HTTPS port (443 TCP) so that your connection will pass through the strictest ISP firewalls (they will look like regular web browsing activity). DNS requests are also passed through the VPN (OpenNIC), so they are kept hidden as well. The servers are located in Canada, and their data is never stored outside of our borders (according to our host). Logs are kept in a RAM disk and regularly deleted. It is our goal to maximize the privacy and security of this service.

The fee is $10 per month, and can be paid through the donation page. We will consider the amount you donated in the past year in order to determine how many months you are subscribed for. Simply submit your email address and your PGP key. We will use your email address to check how much you donated. The PGP key is for us to encrypt the VPN credentials (key) so that only you can view them. If you don’t submit a PGP key, we will just send you your VPN credentials to your email address unencrypted. We will also send you the amounts and dates of the donations and VPN orders you made in the past year, so that you can see how we calculated your subscription time.

For now, our servers have capacity for about 400 GB per month per person. But if we get enough users, we will expand our infrastructure, so there is practically no limit at all. For more help about anything regarding the VPN service, please send an email to [email protected].

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>>>Pourquoi le Parti Pirate?<<<

Why Pirate Party?

1. Open Democracy

One of our main founding principles was Open Government. This means an Open Data policy with proactive disclosure and free access to government data. This will allow anyone to scrutinize and catch any error, negligence or corruption early on. Open Government also means increased transparency, and giving constituents real voices. This can be achieved with electoral reform .

2. Mincome / Basic Income Guarantee (B.I.G.)

Unemployment and income inequality is on the rise and we risk a breakdown of social cohesion without a system for resource distribution as we face increased automation. We're shifting from a bureaucratic culture of constant work-demands to a culture of passion, joy, and learning for the sake of learning.

Mincome will lead to cost savings and create a sustainable economy. See our press release for how that can be achieved.

3. Autonomy and Decentralization

We believe that the world works best when individuals are making informed decisions. It is our goal to get all information to all people, so they may be more informed voters, consumers, participants, and teachers. We do not need to force information culture & the hacker ethic onto people we can simply allow them to choose access. We believe the right to choose our identity, name, and appearance is inalienable.

4. Copyright and Patent Reform
Copyright and patent's main purpose was for propagation of culture and innovation. Our current copyright and patent laws are continuously being corrupted due to lobbying by copyright and patent monopolist. These monopolist refuses to innovate and provide wider access and pass on the savings from the new lower distribution cost. Instead the copyright and patent terms keeps getting extended to benefit the few to the detriment of the public interest. The opposite should happen. Copyright and patent terms should be shortened since our new information infrastructure (i.e. the internet) have brought us cheaper and faster means of distributing media contents and information. Mandatory licensing, owner's rights to a non-DRM product, open access to research data and shorter copyright term are some of the natural changes that is needed if we want to create a more open and progressive society. This will ensure future artist and innovator are not hampered by patent and copyright gatekeepers who uses rent seeking law for anti-competitive purposes.

Human beings increasingly have a moral duty to share information with one another. Libraries are stuck in the last century, enforcing artificial scarcity on digital content. If libraries were upgraded for the modern age, we would no longer need filesharing. And let's face it, watching and listening to whatever you want to is fun. It breaks down arbitrary global borders of access and creates a global culture defined by people- not by corporations.

At the Pirate Party- we believe more information leads to better decisions. We believe that more voices leads to better compromises. We believe in Canadians.

Our democracy need a serious upgrade and Pirate Party aims to change politics to the way it should be.

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