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It's a risk regarding a large number of nodes being run by a single
entity. The upside to such a business model though would be if they
donated a percentage of profits to the Tor foundation. If they get
pummeled by C&D letters and eventually shut down, at least TOR can
keep the money for future development.<br>
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If I can make a disclaimer, I'm working on such a service where one of
the 'pay for' plans allow for a user to VPN into a TOR server
configured to transparently route traffic over the TOR network. But we
never use VPS's; only dedicated boxes rented from quasi-random ISPs.
I've limited it to one TOR box per ISP so far.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi!
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Matthew McCabe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mateo07@mrmccabe.com"><mateo07@mrmccabe.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Wow, that is a very cool idea. This could even be turned into a non-profit
organization... We could take donations to support running Tor exit nodes
which, in turn, supports everyone's ability to use the Internet without fear
of censorship, harassment, and authoritarian (or up-and-coming
authoritarian) governments.
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But of course it would be easier to throw a big blow to the network if
they succeed in killing those nodes (and that would be easier as they
would be operated by one entity).
I was not thinking about non-profit organization at this moment, more
of over-the-PayPal thing. :-)
But I do not know what are prices elsewhere for such collocation.
Maybe somewhere there is even better price for similar arrangement.
Mitar
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