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[james_bond_rulez]

File Trading Anonymity - [RIAA News]
Submitted by Reign on 2/11/2004 3:24:48 PM 3 Comments

With the increase in RIAA lawsuits there was a brief boom in programs and p2p networks promising greater security; the majority of them - like Earthstation5 - failing to really deliver. One programmer claims he's developed a method of protecting file-trader identities for the rock-bottom price of $5.95 a month. According to the Associated Press, programmer Wyatt Wasicek offers anonymity via a program he's developed dubbed AnonX. The application sets up a virtual private network between the user's PC and the the company's network, a user paying for access to their proxy servers.

"I'm doing this to protect the family with the 13-year-old, not the 25-year-old with 25 movies he's sharing with his buddies," says Wasicek, whose service disconnects kiddie porn hunters and heavy pirates. "I wanted to go back to the good old days when people could surf anonymously." Of course there's nothing to say the RIAA couldn't eventually sue AnonX for a list of the company's 7,000 customers, though Wasicek claims the company's "real owner" lives on the Pacific island of Vanuatu.

Earthstation5 promised the ability to go into "stealth mode" when they unveiled their service last year. User data was relayed through one of their many public proxies, masking your IP address. The program also promised to help users dodge Packet shaping technologies (used by many campus's to control bandwidth use) by utilizing Dynamic ports. Of course the company lost much (all?) of their credibility when reports surfaced of malicious code (since removed) buried in the application.

Various cryptographically secured and private services have sprung up since the subpoena madness began. One service named "Winny" turned out to be anything but anonymous after the network's creators were arrested by Japanese police last December. That system - 250,000 users strong - was based in part on the Freenet code (so the creators claim), another encrypted private service that promises anonymity and the inability to be forced off-line. Freenet's creator insists it was a simple knock-off.

Source: www.ircspy.com

[james_bond_rulez]

Of course there's nothing to say the RIAA couldn't eventually sue AnonX for a list of the company's 7,000 customers, though Wasicek claims the company's "real owner" lives on the Pacific island of Vanuatu

that's sooooo rich man



fuck riaa, fuck em all

LONG LIVE FILE SHARING

PS. Wyatt nice touch

I'm doing this to protect the family with the 13-year-old, not the 25-year-old with 25 movies he's sharing with his buddies," says Wasicek, whose service disconnects kiddie porn hunters and heavy pirates.

Are you gonna disconnect me now?

[james_bond_rulez]

The application sets up a virtual private network between the user's PC and the the company's network, a user paying for access to their proxy servers

omg when will they ever learn it's NOT an application it's just a dial up connection by windows

fuck microsoft

[BawA]

do u like to talk with ur self or its ur why to icrease ur posts# and views

j/k

[internet.news]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@12 February 2004 - 13:51

Of course there's nothing to say the RIAA couldn't eventually sue AnonX for a list of the company's 7,000 customers, though Wasicek claims the company's "real owner" lives on the Pacific island of Vanuatu

that's sooooo rich man



fuck riaa, fuck em all

LONG LIVE FILE SHARING

PS. Wyatt nice touch

I'm doing this to protect the family with the 13-year-old, not the 25-year-old with 25 movies he's sharing with his buddies," says Wasicek, whose service disconnects kiddie porn hunters and heavy pirates.

Are you gonna disconnect me now?

the owner is also just human unfortunately - and he is doing
something to feel comfortable on the Island.

Ok, finally I don't really know what to think - true - but media can have
huge influence...

Edited: ok, what woud you do if you had millions of dollars?
I would share them - there would still be enough for myself - and then
I would build a small little house probably in brasil or pacific, maybe cuba?
maybe canada, maybe london, yeah, london is good.

[james_bond_rulez]

internet.news get the fuck outta my thread@!!!!!!!

GET OUT!!!!!!!

[nanotek]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@12 February 2004 - 16:07
internet.news get the fuck outta my thread@!!!!!!!

GET OUT!!!!!!!

yeh he likes talking to himself a lot , ive heard paranoid ppl do that

[jetje]

7000 users x 5.95 = $ 41.650 a month

41.650 x 12 = $ 499.800 a year
well he probably has some costs but even if those are like $ 200.000 (which is much imo)so he aprox makes a louzy $ 300.000 on scared people...
It almost sounds like a scam

my guess James Bond you need to ask some money from this guy, your advertising makes him rich

[h1]

People who talked to themselves used to get burned at the stake as witches. I think we should hold true to that system here.

[nanotek]

Originally posted by haxor41789@12 February 2004 - 20:51
People who talked to themselves used to get burned at the stake as witches. I think we should hold true to that system here.

burn baby burn