Short Giants stop payment to anonymization - Metro

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giant card companies MasterCard and Visa have previously stopped the payments to sites that disseminate copyrighted material. Now, they take another step. The companies stop payment to VPN services, which are used to anonymize Internet users.

It was the end of last week as Swedish payment service company Payson in an email to its customers announced that it is no longer going to pay for VPN, and other anonymization, with MasterCard and Visa.

the terse e-mail makes no mention of the reason for the decision. The site torrentfreak.com say though representing Payson that the change introduced by requirements from card companies.

Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde is behind one of the many VPN services that may be short payments strangled.
– This means that U.S. companies oblige non-US companies that do not allow people to protect their privacy and anonymity. This means that the NSA can spy even more. It’s crazy, he tells torrentfreak.com.

You can still pay for VPN services with other means of payment. But Peter Sunde contemplating yet to draw cards Giants trial.

He draws parallels to when WikiLeaks won against card companies after donations by debit card stopped.

Sofie Brangelina, Visa Europe’s press contact in Sweden, denies that the company’s European operations have made any demands on Payson. In a statement the company said:
“Visa Europe has not been involved in this matter in any way, and has not made any such requests to Payson or any other organization.”

Metro has sought Payson and MasterCard.

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