Copyright Law

Pirate Bay Formally Launches ?IPREDATOR? VPN Service

By soulxtc

For $6.67 p/mo users get fully anonymous file-sharing.

This past March Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay announced that it was launching a VPN service called IPREDator to enable file-sharers to download content without leaving a data trail.

The service, which costs around ?5 ($6.67) a month, is surely aimed at the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect this past April, and which 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.

IPREDator was scheduled to go live back in April, but apparently suffered some delays, not the least of which was the Pirate Bay’s conviction for the facilitation of copyright infringement I’m sure.

The service has some 180,000 already signed up, with the first 3000 on the beta-list having already been invited.

From the Pirate Bay blog:

Girls & Guys!

Ipredator is running Beta. The first 3000 people on the beta-list has been invited. There’s been some small issues but it’s being resolved right now, then we’ll invite more people in. There’s 180.000 (!!!) people in the queue for accounts and we’re hoping that all will have their invite within a months period. After that? We’ll open for the world…

Yeah, we’re delayed as usual. But it wouldn’t be us if it wasn’t delayed

$7 bucks a month seems a pretty cheap price for piece of mind, and I’m sure many will agree.

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).