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.
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. Peter Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Matthew McCabe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > 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 > > -- --------------------------- Peter Lombardo [email protected]
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