The Pirate Bay announced a few months ago the creation of IPREDator, a VPN service to be used, I guess, to pirate content a little more stealthily. Well, the service is now in beta. Closed beta, I might add.
And while a VPN is a VPN is a VPN, IPREDator is supposedly safer in that there’s no log file to be found. No one is keeping track of who connected to the server and when, making it slightly more difficult for the policía to track you down.
Seems like IPREDator could be useful in Iran right now, right?
via The Register
Remember kids: Any anonymity service is only as trustworthy as the people running it.
Do you know these guys like family? Would you trust them not to rat you out if they were offered a decreased sentence in exchange for ratting you out?
No?
Then why would you trust them to not expose your network traffic.
The Pirate Bay crew who are initiating the Ipredator service are heroes in Sweden, Norway and among the young in most of Europe. To shorten a one year jail term for the sake of sacrificing their honor, reputation, and principles by ratting out their VPN customers seems pretty far fetched.
File sharing is a movement and a powerful one at that. The political old guard is just beginning to wake up to the fact that those of us into this are dedicated enough to our cause to actually vote.
As the world-wide economic crisis deepens, the greedy representatives of the moneyed elite such as the MPAA and the RIAA will become increasingly less popular among average citizens.
It is time for a change and it is time to reign in the power and influence of both the MPAA and the RIAA. It is also time to replace the government officials who are in bed with these groups.
Since they can’t charge a monthly access fee to users of The Pirate Bay, perhaps they’ll try to profit from iPredator instead?
I think that VPNs are going to grow since it’s the best way to stay anonymous and secure on the interwebs – especially with all these lawsuits from the RIAA and MPAA and censorship in countries like Germany, Australia & China.
I got a free VPN account with blackVPN.com – they are beta testing too and giving out free invite codes on their twitter @blackVPN.
Governments and rich media companies are getting way too powerful for their own good – I don’t trust any of them. I’m going to keep my traffic private with a VPN – even if it means trusting some VPN provider – it’s better than the alternatives.