I honestly don't think that the number of people using this service (if it happens) will be as great as people are thinking. I'm sure there will be some but if there are ever more than 1000 concurrent users i'd be very suprised.
Its all about the marketing - Tor is a massive pain to use, need a totally new browser, is slow, times-out.....once it catches on about DarkTor, people will leave Tor in droves for a premium service.
Especially when you can pay with Darkcoin and your entry and exit is still totally anonymous.
Its fucking genius
Im excited for things to come. It IS absolutely genius. who wouldn't pay 50 cents or so for 24 hours access. Journalists will use it for sure everyday. Stock brokers.. anyone who doesn't want their stuff being seen. Absolutely brilliant.
Everyone who is sane.
Privacy should be a right of everyone especially people in poor and oppressed regions, its just sick what you guys make of it.
TOR is only reasonable safe because of its sheer amount of users; tell me one sane reason why someone who really needs the security should pay for a worse alternative? Speed doesn't matter for someone in Syria who wants to communicate with his family abroad or wants to send files to wikileaks etc.
Not to mention that tor is only safe within the tor-network itself, using exitnodes isnt really clever...
It has a damn good reason why I2P disabled all bridges to the WWW for security.