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Pirate Bay's VPN Launches - Ipredator

Bob2002

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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).

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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.


http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/20/pirate-bays-vpn-goes.html

https://www.ipredator.se/?lang=en

I've been using a cheap VPN for a while that I use to watch geo IP filtered TV from the US (pretty good until Hulu banned my provider's IP address range). :hrmph:
 
How about a fast encrypted proxy server instead?
 
Regarding TPB (or my own situation I suppose) I would have thought that any free (if that's what you mean) proxy server is going to get swamped, so you'd be better of with the better levels of service offered by a commercial service. Also logging may be a concern for torrent users. :hrmph:
 
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more than likely, which means another court case coming to TPB if they dont hold those details as the law states (or maybe updated to state if it doesnt say so already)
 
After a little research (of what little information I could actually find :rolleyes:), it seems that VPN operators may not be subject to the EU's Data Retention Directive.

If they are, they may only have to log when you connected to the network, not what actually goes on while you are connected. In fact most VPN operators don't even have access to your decryption key, so they couldn't find out what you have been up to if they wanted to.
 
Regarding TPB (or my own situation I suppose) I would have thought that any free (if that's what you mean) proxy server is going to get swamped, so you'd be better of with the better levels of service offered by a commercial service. Also logging may be a concern for torrent users. :hrmph:
No, as you say, free proxy servers are pretty useless for anything except basic web access. I meant one of the fairly affordable commercial ones you can get. They can be a bit of a hassle to work with in some applications that don't give proper support but otherwise they're quite good; especially if you want to view/access online content restricted to the USA (i.e. buy a usa proxy).
 
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There are arguments that a VPN server isn't providing internet access or communications services so may not be forced to store any details.

If they are then they would be obliged to record enough information to be able to identify individual subscribers under the request of a LEO with the appropriate paperwork.

Depending on the location of the servers for the VPN you could even get away without storing any details whilst the user is not connected (you would have to provide details about a user who was connected in the majority of countries)

For example the Isle of Man is currently trying to negotiate a flat fee with the rights holders per broadband connection that would allow the islands population to use any p2p downloaded material as they had already paid a 'fee' to do so.

If that goes through, anyone want to share a VPN server colocated in Manx?
 
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