By offering VPN they are no longer passive facilitators, but active ones. The current crop, though, don't have this issue.ĭoes your company facilitate copyright infringement? It's not called the Shareware Bay y'know. In a case it turned up that the US Government put these tracking devices inline between Earthlink and their backbone connections which was the cause of the slowdowns.

Then it quit, but not until after they lost a lot of subscribers. If you send ALL your traffic to this VPN service, what makes you think you are safe? While PB may not log, what is to stop a government from forcing PB to place their own logging device inline?Īfter being a very quick and nice dialup service, Earthlink suffered a year of horrible response times, poor performance, and high drops.

The US Government was using this Anonymous site to find people violating US law. After a while, the truth came out in a proceeding. There was no indication that it was the US Government. Years ago, the US Government opened up one of these Anonymous web surfing sites. It seems more likely that the majority either won't care, or will simply start looking for lesser-known torrent trackers to use.' The question remains, however, if any significant portion of The Pirate Bay's users will decide to fork over 5 Euro per month solely to remain anonymous. Without any data to hand over, copyright owners won't be able to find individuals to target. IPREDator's website says that it won't store any traffic data, as its entire goal is to help people stay anonymous on the web.

IPREDator is currently in private beta and is expected to go public next week for €5 per month.

The new service will be called IPREDator, named after the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that will go into effect in April. 'The Pirate Bay is planning to launch a paid VPN service for users looking to cover their tracks when torrenting. Death Metal sends along an Ars Technica piece about The Pirate Bay's plans for a virtual private network service to help ensure its users' privacy.

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