Freeriding in Stockholm’s public transportation system is illegal. If (and if) you get caught you pay a fee. planka.nu is a organization that provides a service for people that wish to freeride and pay any fee if caught. This is the fees:

You can become a member for four different time periods

One week: 50 kronor
One calendar month: 100 kronor
Half a year: 500 kronor
And weeknights and weekends with Planka Lite (one calendar month): 50 kronor

It’s an organized way to protest for a belief “public transportation should be like the sidewalk – paid by all, free to walk on”. What I’m wondering if they are making money or just paying bills and putting everything in the fund. However they recommend that the member to evade raids and controllers, because this “is based on solidarity.” So doesn’t matter what they do, they urge their members to not “waist the fund”, meaning that the business model is similar to insurance companies where they try to minimize to the max the insurance to pay.

At the end of the day is another protest made by customers (or people in general) over the status quo, that is what BitTorrent is doing to the movie and music industry.