Last year, in March, The Pirate Bay introduced a VPN service called IPREDATOR. VPN services, for those of you who are not up to spec, are used to protect your online anonymity. For a monthly subscription your internet connection is encrypted and data is routed though a VPN provider’s server located in another country. Anyone snooping around will not be able to identify your IP address; instead they’ll only be able to get the IP address of the VPN company.
The Pirate Bay decided to launch IPREDATOR in response to the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that was adopted in Sweden, directive that made it easier for media companies to access the personal details of any user suspected of sharing copyrighted material. IPREDATOR uses VPN (virtual private network) to ensure that all TPB users remain anonymous. For a monthly subscription of just 5 Euros the user’s internet connection is encrypted and data is routed though the VPN provider’s server. No traffic data is stored by IPREDATOR, to protect the user’s anonymity of course.
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Okay, so The Pirate Bay announced IPREDATOR back in March. What happened next? Well, in June ’09 the anonymity service was released as a Beta to about 3,000 testers. And that’s pretty much all we knew about it since then.
After months and months of waiting, IPREDATOR has finally went live for everyone to use. You will have to pay €5 or about $7 for a monthly subscription, but it is worth it from a privacy point of view. The best thing about IPREDATOR is that unlike regular VPN providers, who will give out your personal details when legally pressured to do so, IPREDATOR will not store any user activity logs, so there is no info to disclose. If you would like to get started with IPREDATOR, visit the official site here.
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