SonsOfLiberty
05-15-2009, 02:42 AM
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Looks like the market for anonymous Bittorrent solutions is getting more and more crowded: A new service called Superchargemytorrent.com (http://superchargemytorrent.com/) is offering to anonymize your Bittorrent usage for five bucks a month by rerouting all of your torrent traffic through its servers. A two day test membership costs just a dollar.
And no, this is not just about piracy: A service like this will also bail you out if your ISP or your campus network operator is messing with Bittorrent traffic.
What's interesting about Superchargemytorrent is that it's based on a Socks proxy server, meaning that you don't have to set up a VPN connection for all your Internet traffic, as it is the case with Torrentfreedom (http://www.torrentfreedom.com/), and other competitors. Instead, you just enter the proxy server's address and your credentials into uTorrent or Vuze, and you're ready to go.
Why does that make a difference you ask? Because many web offerings nowadays depend on localization in one form or another. Let's say you use a VPN provider with servers in Canada. Sounds good in theory, but it also has the consequence that [url=http://www.hulu.com/]Hulu.com (http://ivacy.com/Ivacy[/url) won't let you watch any of their clips anymore. To them, it will look like you're Canadian.
I had a chance to test the service over the last couple of days, and I didn't really notice any difference in speed compared to a regular Bittorrent connection. That being said, I do have a rather slow residential DSL connection. FIOS users may see different results.
Of course, whether one uses a service like this is ultimately a question of trust, and I must admit the Superchargemytorrent.com website doesn't exactly look like something I'd want to invest my life savings in. However, I did have a small problem during sign-up, and the support staff was very helpful - even though I have a feeling I wasn't actually talking to the lady pictured on the site ...
:source: Source: p2p-blog (http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1049.html):view: Homepage: Superchargemytorrent (http://superchargemytorrent.com/)
Looks like the market for anonymous Bittorrent solutions is getting more and more crowded: A new service called Superchargemytorrent.com (http://superchargemytorrent.com/) is offering to anonymize your Bittorrent usage for five bucks a month by rerouting all of your torrent traffic through its servers. A two day test membership costs just a dollar.
And no, this is not just about piracy: A service like this will also bail you out if your ISP or your campus network operator is messing with Bittorrent traffic.
What's interesting about Superchargemytorrent is that it's based on a Socks proxy server, meaning that you don't have to set up a VPN connection for all your Internet traffic, as it is the case with Torrentfreedom (http://www.torrentfreedom.com/), and other competitors. Instead, you just enter the proxy server's address and your credentials into uTorrent or Vuze, and you're ready to go.
Why does that make a difference you ask? Because many web offerings nowadays depend on localization in one form or another. Let's say you use a VPN provider with servers in Canada. Sounds good in theory, but it also has the consequence that [url=http://www.hulu.com/]Hulu.com (http://ivacy.com/Ivacy[/url) won't let you watch any of their clips anymore. To them, it will look like you're Canadian.
I had a chance to test the service over the last couple of days, and I didn't really notice any difference in speed compared to a regular Bittorrent connection. That being said, I do have a rather slow residential DSL connection. FIOS users may see different results.
Of course, whether one uses a service like this is ultimately a question of trust, and I must admit the Superchargemytorrent.com website doesn't exactly look like something I'd want to invest my life savings in. However, I did have a small problem during sign-up, and the support staff was very helpful - even though I have a feeling I wasn't actually talking to the lady pictured on the site ...
:source: Source: p2p-blog (http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1049.html):view: Homepage: Superchargemytorrent (http://superchargemytorrent.com/)