Baneki offers freeware solution to Chinese government blocking of iTunes
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 28, 2008 at 5:00am
Baneki Privacy Computing—a distributed provider of privacy protection and censorship avoidance services—has begun providing a pool of dedicated VPN accounts to Chinese citizens, so that they’re able once again to freely and reliably access Apple’s iTunes music store.
This service is free, and is a donation provided to the global community. Using their existing, OpenVPN-based privacy framework, Baneki Privacy Computing says it’s “pulled together a quick and effective solution to this current censorship problem, which we plan to expand further in the future.”
Earlier this month acess to Apple’s online iTunes Store was blocked in China after it was discovered that Olympic athletes have been downloading and possibly listening to a pro-Tibetan music album in a subtle act of protest against China’s rule over the province. The album “Songs for Tibet” album was produced by an a group called The Art of Peace Foundation, and features 20 tracks from singers and songwriters including Sting, Moby, Suzanne Vega and Alanis Morissette. It was released as a download on the iTunes Store on Aug. 5 (three days before the start of the Olympics).
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
