lord_casek Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 As governments around the world consider proposals to hand surveillance powers to the entertainment industry and twitchy cops, the Pirate Bay is striking back. Its new €5/month IPRedator service is an encrypted VPN that you can use to hide your traffic (whatever it may contain) from prying eyes. The name comes from Sweden's adoption of IPRED (the "IP Rights Enforcement Directive," a punishing piece of anti-Internet legislation). I've been looking for a reliable VPN to use on public hotspots -- this might just be it. Ipredator is currently using the same platform as several other VPN franchises including Relakks, which means it's not really anything we haven't seen before. The servers are maintained and provided by Pirate Bay affiliates though, which may be more trustworthy to the average BitTorrent user than a random VPN provider. That aside, we were told by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde that contrary to what the legal page states, no logs of any kind are kept by Ipredator. The text that is in there is a left over from the standard template they got from the provider of the VPN platform. And, according to Sunde, there will soon be even more advantages and added security to Ipredator. In fact, I just signed up. I'll let you know how it works out. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/20/pirate-bays-vpn-goes.html P.S.: I use bitblinder now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Sticktodamahneosis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaolinmasta Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have no idea what all that meant. You guys that use all these things to hide what your doing on the internet... What exactly are you doing on the internet that needs hiding? :s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organic Therapy Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Pirate Bay < Demonoid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have no idea what all that meant. You guys that use all these things to hide what your doing on the internet... What exactly are you doing on the internet that needs hiding? :s Not getting caught downloading pirated music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 ive downloaded about 3,000+ songs in the last year or so and i havent been caught yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<ma> Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 ^^^^^im the same way homie not that many songs as you but im up there i hope they dont take it down thats my main source to download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsmbfan Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 they dont go after drug users - they go after drug DEALERS they don't go after illegal downloaders - they go after illegal download PROVIDERS because it "cuts the head off the dragon". why put out the fires the dragon leaves behind? does any of this make sense to any of you? paranoid people. unless you're in the scene and not a scenester then it doesn't make sense to hide anything. they won't - THEY CAN'T - prosecute everybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I "preview" a lot of stuff and it's just a matter of using common sense. Certain sources are better/more secure than others. The people who would benefit the most from a VPN usually have one already, and it's not one attached to a known quantity like TPB. Had this been available before the trial and all of the funny business surrounding the torrent site I'd be interested but TPB is way too hot to take chances with (although I still use BayIMG). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortFuse Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Im up to like 60 gigs worth of music in the past 6 months but I dont really seed it all. nsmbfan is right. They go after those that are providing the larger chunks not the ones DLing lil bits here and there. They cant prosecute everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a kid growin up Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 http://www.vuze.com/ This program changed my life. Download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 That program used to be called Azereus and it sucks down RAM like it's a paying job. No thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 my friend just got a letter from at&t last month with a list of shit she downloaded . it was more of a cease and desist but holy shit was it really worth it for them to do that over rainbow brite and true blood? i tried to express her using proxies and a whole host of shit to hide herself but she said it was too much hassle and it wasn't even alot that was downloaded. and if anything i told her to at least have some sort of outrageous porn seeding at all times to further mask but oh well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I got a letter in 2005 from Comcast saying that there was "suspicious traffic on my line" or something to that effect...nothing specific, though. I was running a p2p app more or less non stop back then, so I cut that out for a while and never heard about it after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdot Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 A friend of mine actually had his Comcast account suspended for downloading V for Vendetta. What a shitty movie to lose your high speed over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 hmmm, what about them going legit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 they dont go after drug users - they go after drug DEALERS they don't go after illegal downloaders - they go after illegal download PROVIDERS because it "cuts the head off the dragon". why put out the fires the dragon leaves behind? does any of this make sense to any of you? paranoid people. unless you're in the scene and not a scenester then it doesn't make sense to hide anything. they won't - THEY CAN'T - prosecute everybody. word. thts how i feel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francis buxton Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 A friend of mine actually had his Comcast account suspended for downloading V for Vendetta. What a shitty movie to lose your high speed over. My buddie had his shut down for down loading Entourage. I got a pretty good laugh out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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