Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing 137
schliz writes "Developers of The Pirate Bay have launched their new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to some 180,000 pre-registered beta testers. An e-mail to beta testers read. 'IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients. IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!' The new service was launched to protect file sharers in response to the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect in April."
Meh - black servers have been around for years. (Score:5, Informative)
Black Servers won't go away, because they are impossible to find and stop.
RS
Re:Meh - black servers have been around for years. (Score:5, Informative)
Black server - server using encrypted comms that is not publicly know
Darknet - layer on top of internet that uses encryption, multiple hop routing and other techniques to disguise nodes activity from each other
That's my understanding of it anyhow. I2P and freenet are the only darknets I know about. I wouldn't go near 'em, personally.
Old News (Score:5, Informative)
It's entered Beta? Hardly news, I got my invite on the 1st of July, it contained a unique HTTPS URL which was the only way to access the login page. I signed up (and paid up), connected the VPN after following the simple steps to create a Windows VPN connection. My IP then geo-located to somewhere in Sweden. It's nice, cheap and easy solution, assuming it does indeed remain anonymous. Speeds are pretty much wirespeed on my 5MB ADSL in the UK.
Keep in mind... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Free? (Score:2, Informative)
RTFA, please. Who said it's free?
Re:Free? (Score:2, Informative)
RTFA, guy. It's not free.
Also It's been done [slashdot.org] before and well [wikipedia.org]. The code has been open for a long time now. I'm just surprised it hasn't happened sooner.
The code used to be archived by some of the industry cool kids for quite a while, but I'm not readily finding it in the allowed attention span of this comment.
Re:Free? (Score:3, Informative)
US credit card? Forget it (Score:2, Informative)