News Pirate Bay to launch VPN service

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/03/27/pirate-bay-to-launch-vpn-service/1

Notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is set to launch a virtual private network service next week which will offer completely anonymous data transit.

 

**** the music industry let them make money by preforming, not make millions from a week in a recording studio

people will only pay wat they think something is worth and im afraid an mp3 isnt worth shag all

 

I use giganews for newsgroup binaries, I certainly wouldn't pay subscription for something as 'unreliable' as torrents.

 

I don't use torrents myself, but one can never be too anonymous on the internet. TBH, this new copyright law won't be around for long, as soon as the first lawsuites surface, everyone in sweden will stop buying music/films in response.

 

I use TPB a lot but I also use private trackers and the Usenet every now and then. If TPB offers this service as a premium service everything is fine. If they, on the other hand, try to make some money from the [pretty large @ 20+ million users on their trackers] community by making it necessary to subscribe to be allowed to use their trackers it'll backfire faster than you can say "Milk it, baby! Moooow!".

 

If they can deliver high download speeds, for quality downloads, and with the advantage of being invisible for £4 per month, I think anyone with common sense would buy a membership. Most private trackers live with donations, some high as £500 a month.

 

Why not use the Usenet then? The only difference would be that it's not P2P, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

And do you really think 20+ million people would subscribe? 5 at the absolute max, if I had to guess.
Still, what an amount of money that'd be...

 

yeah forget that.. use the newsgroups or at least peer guardian 2 for torrents, they keep it updated.. it even runs on vista 64

 

I'm getting it even though I rarely use TPB, it's the only VPN carrier I would trust not to keep any logs.

Also because of the sheer status brought by the name...

 

Sounds tempting. I don't think they would make something it mandatory in order to use the tracker (at least I didn't get that impression from the article). I'm not really concerned about the RIAA or anybody else coming after me anyway, but if I ever need such service I think this would be a great option to consider.

 

Of course, if 5 million people paid £4 a month I'd be very surprised, make it to 1 million and that will be something imo.

 

Screw P2P and its dependance on people sharing, One click hosters to the rescue.

 

Word! lol

 

like rapidshare.. or should I say.. rapid share of trojans XD there's a program if you like rapidshare- it will d/l gigs without having to manually do it.. I just don't trust alot of the stuff that gets hosted on there- seems 1 out of 3 have trojans/viruses

guy I know on another forum got hosed recently.. he said he scanned it.. uac on vista caught it before it executed, knew it was virus ridden.. I really enjoy vista- there I said it lol I can game / have other 'stuff' going on with the bandwidth, browser, photoshop, projects and it never crashes- just take it for granted nowdays, but I remember I couldn't do that on xp [/offsubject]

 

"Privacy enhancement services" ... m-hm ... child porn dealers and users will love it.

 

They may, but that doesn't make me want it any less.

Some very basic rights is being taken from us in Sweden, i'll try to take the ones i can back...

 

Sweden and the rest of the world. As stated before, pirate bay is one of the few people I would trust not to keep logs. But if you're paying for something with credit/debit card, can it ever really be that anonymous?

 

True, the rest of you are being hit pretty hard as well.

I'm guessing they will have the option to pay manually every month, then there would be no need to keep the information regarding what card goes together with what account. That's the least of my worries and i'll be signing up with a subscription if possible.
Our new laws (from wednesday ) allow "them" to demand to know who's behind a specific IP, billing information should never enter into it, I hope...

 

Get pre-paid credit cards and you're a lot safer if you're afraid of not being anonymous.

We had a law passed in Germany a couple of years ago that allowed the government to check on all your bank transfers/statements whenever they want "to prevent any terror threat". I called BS back then and I'll do it again... and again... and again...

 

There isn't really anything to discuss, vpns are nothing new and tbp, if anything are going to draw fire to VPN users, they could have just put out a blog post telling people to use a VPN rather than giving it all this publicity.