Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 24.03.2009
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversBack in July 2008, torrent tracker The Pirate Bay announced plans to encrypt the Internet. That hasn't happened yet, but they plan to offer a VPN tunneling service to the public starting April 1.
Dubbing the service IPREDator after the controversial Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that takes effect the same day. IPRED's main goal is to make it easier for copyright holders to acquire the personal data of suspected illegal file sharers.
By offering a VPN service that doesn't log its traffic, IPREDator is simultaneously setting itself apart from other Web-based VPN services and offering what looks like a way to legally evade IPRED. Without logs, users will be able to exchange data without worrying about a subpoena revealing to whom the data packets were going, or what their contents were.
Other details about the new VPN service are thin, except that users will be asked to pay a small premium, approximately $6.77 or 5 euros, for the service. It's also not clear if the service will be compatible with other non-file sharing uses, or if it will try to compete with other encrypted tunneling services like LogMeIn or GoToMyPC.
The current beta is free and can be signed up for at the IPREDator site, although it's taking only 500 testers. If anybody does get a chance to use the beta service, please post about it below.
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Comments(2)
unless the internet becomes a pay-per-bit medium, it does not matter what piratebay or
anyone else wants to charge. there will always be a new site from a different place
popping up to fill the void. i first started using the internet in the early 1980's on a
texas instruments all-in-one computer (think trs-80 style). bill gates sent out a memo in
the 1970's ranting against software pirates!!! what has that done! all that will happen
ever (as long as we can connect to a bulletin board, web site, etc.) is kill one method
and spark another. [thank you metallica for killing the original napster, now because of
bit torrents we can get apps and not just music!]
rule-of-thumb: if its not
hardware, its downloadable!
the internet makes hardware cheaper. (what would
newegg be if hardware was downloadable?)
if all software companies did what
adobe does (make their most popular products free; eg: acrobat reader) and the advanced/
non-read-only *ware for a charge imagine how it would be. think vista home basic free,
home premium for a charge, etc. couple that with mandatory large sentences for pirates,
and you have as close to a perfect free market as possible!
april fools joke?
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By budz420 on 25.03.2009 - 04:03