Copyright Law

Pirate Bay?s VPN Service Goes Public

By Jared Moya

Ipredator offers safe, encrypted communication between you and the Internet for only $7 bucks a month.

Last March I mentioned how BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay would begin Beta testing a new VPN service called Ipredator which would allow file-sharers to download copyrighted material anonymously.

The name Ipredator is a spin on the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into affect last April and forces ISPs to divulge the name of customers suspected by copyright holders of infringement.

The service was eventually introduced last June, but has remained in a Beta-testing phase since then. Late last week it announced the service was finally open to everyone.

Ipredator costs about ? 15 ($21 USD) for 3 months, a small price to pay for peace of mind.

“For only 149 SEK (that’s about 15 EUR / 21 USD) per 3 months you will get safe, encrypted communication between you and the internet, with no logging of the data transferred,” it says. “It’s of our utmost concern that you can use the network without anyone deciding what you’re can communicate about.”

It adds that the more people who use the service the better because it means it will have more funds to “build more tools.”

“At the same time the users clearly show that they want to be anonymous,” it continues. “It sends a very clear message to the politicians!”

Indeed it does.

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).