The Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service

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The Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service

"As the online battle against file-sharers heats up with governments and ISPs forced into the arena, those opposed to being monitored are investigating counter-measures. Soon the Pirate Bay team will introduce IPREDATOR, a service that promises to make global Internet users more anonymous than with existing VPN services.

As the entertainment industries turn their lobbying power towards ISPs and governments in their on-going battle against file-sharers, more and more people are looking at neutralizing the effects of monitoring and new legislation.

Many file-sharers already pay a few dollars each month for a VPN service. This type of facility allows the user to protect his Internet connection with encryption while “tunneling’ data in privacy through the servers of a VPN provider, usually located in another country. The user’s ISP-designated IP address remains hidden, revealing only a second IP address provided by his VPN company.

This type of service hinders outsiders from finding the identity of an individual behind an IP address, while helping Internet users effectively side-step laws which may prove inconvenient or unpalatable in their home country.

For those who like to share files, one country set to introduce an extremely unpalatable law is Sweden. Due to come into force in just over a week, the controversial Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation will make it easier for copyright holders to get their hands on the personal details of suspected illicit file-sharers.

But not if the crew of The Pirate Bay have anything to do with it.

Timed to coincide with the introduction of IPRED on April 1st 2009, a brand new service designed to neutralize the effects of the law will be launched. Dubbed ‘IPREDATOR’, this brand new anonymity service from The Pirate Bay promises to make subscribers “more anonymous” than when using traditional VPN services.

Peter Sunde, aka brokep told TorrentFreak that the service is currently in beta and will be slowly opened to around 500 users. When those users are experiencing the service bug-free, it will be opened up to everyone.

Fortunately the service won’t be limited to just Swedish users. Brokep confirmed that anonymity will be available globally for a modest fee of around 5 euros ($6.77) per month.

The weak link in any VPN/anonymity service is always their willingness (or otherwise) to hand over your customer data when pressured under the law. However, with IPREDATOR this should not be an issue since the service is promising to keep no logs of user activity whatsoever.

Anyone who would like to participate in the beta should sign up here.

http://ipredator.se/ "

:source: Source: Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service | IPREDATOR

I don't know exactly what to make of this, but using private trackers helps with anonymity imo.
Still, atm my ISP isn't capping or monitoring my traffic.

This actually sounds pretty good. No logs are kept(so they say). So if I were using a VPN service I would probably switch to this and give it a try. It's cheap enough.

Sounds like a good idea, would be interested in the tech details behind it aside from no logs. Personally, I prefer encrypted connections on private trackers and usenet; if i must use a public tracker, PeerGuardian helps.

sounds really great. can't wait until they finally open the service for public...
has anyone participated in the beta?
would love to hear that features ipredator has...

I haven't, I signed up, since it was a beta, I hoped I could test if for free. I won't use it, but they have the right idea going.

Pirate Bay VPN Service Has 113,000 Users and Counting

Tens of thousands sign up for IPREDator, which is due to go live sometime this week.

A few weeks ago I reported how BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay was launching a VPN service called IPREDator, a spin on the controversial IPRED, the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, to allow file-sharers to download copyrighted material anonymously for the measly price of $6.67 a month.

A VPN service anonymizes a subscriber’s IP address, instead using one assigned to it by the VPN to connect to a BitTorrent swarm for example.

There has been apparently a huge demand for the service with some 113,000 people and counting having signed up so far. The demand has been so high that the original April 1st launch date has been pushed back.

April 1st was the day that IPRED became law in Sweden. IPRED requires ISPs to reveal the names of IP addresses accused of illegal file-sharing to copyright holders. Previously, only police were allowed to question ISPs.

“Right now, we have 113,000 who have joined the queue,” Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay spokesperson, told TT.

Sunde estimates 80% of those signed up so far are Swedes, which makes sense considering that one Internet traffic measurement firm shows Internet usage practically dropping by by almost one half, dropping from almost 200Gbps to 110Gbps on the day the new law came into effect.

where did you get this?
they probably setup right a now a system that can handle that much users.
hope they launch it soon.
it sounds just great. 5 euros. from the tpb...