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PayPal bans ISP started by Pirate Bay founders

article published on 25 December, 2012

PayPal has banned PRQ, the ISP begun by Pirate Bay founders, from its services. After three years of partnership, PayPal froze the assets of the company for 180 days and has effectively shut them down. The ISP was started in 2004 with the motto that it is 'bullet-proof,' meaning if the site is legal in Sweden, it will host and defend it. Because of their defense of sites like The ... [ read the full article ]

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Red_Forman
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_ 		25. December 2012 @ 22:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What can you expect from a Washington D.C backed company? PayPal has been on the forefront of corporate-govermental intermingling and cooperation, like Facebook and Apple is today. It was one of the first to ban users and sites with pornographic or other 'immoral' content. The furry and snuff sites being one such group I remember them banning back in the day. The CEOs were quite close to the Bush Administration, now the Obama one too.
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KillerBug
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_ 		26. December 2012 @ 09:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm surprised they were even allowing payment through paypal...they have been banning everyone who doesn't have a US flag and a SOPA affiliation.
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Steel-Ice
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_ 		27. December 2012 @ 00:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by SmaryJerry:
 Paypal has been a shit service for years. I never understood why no other online payment sites have sprung up that can actually run a business that just accepts payments/creditcards.
Because everybody trusts paypal with their money. Especially when dealing with people on ebay. They act as the mediator in any dispute and will give the money to the party that was wronged. (Although ebay owns paypal.)

Any other online money service will have a hard time building a reputation like paypal. Despite paypal questionable decisions to suspend accounts to businesses they don't agree with.
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