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Pirate Bay VPN Service Has 113,000 Users and Counting

By soulxtc

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.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).