[NetBehaviour] The Pirate Bay to roll out secure EUR5 per month VPN service.

[marc garrett]

Hi Yvonne,

A warm welcome to the list :-)

Yes, I have had my own suspicions regarding pirate bay. It's good to get 
some background info and thoughts around this as well, especially from 
your self, knowing the local context.

Very interesting

wishing you well.

marc
 

I'm neo-new to this list. Been here before, but left and am now back.

As I'm Swedish and have been able to follow the Pirate Bay trial, I'd 
like to fill in here.

In fact, I'm very disappointed. Not about the trial, but about Pirate 
Bay. As it turns out, the guy who has supported Pirate Bay financially, 
is a millionaire and a (former) member of the organization Keep Sweden 
Swedish, a neo-Nazi organization here. The others have had no income for 
years, have high tax debts and are in general of the opinion that you 
don't have to contribute to society. Hard to believe that they've had no 
income with lots of advertising and loads of visitors. They're, in my 
view, nothing but neo-liberal profit-seeking egos. Nothing else. No 
activism as far as I can see. It makes me wonder about file-sharing and 
activism. Does it go without saying that a site like Pirate Bay is 
'good'? In any case, nothing is black and white.

http://freewheelin.nu

Yvonne


2009/3/28 marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>

    The Pirate Bay to roll out secure EUR5 per month VPN service.

    Those behind The Pirate Bay have introduced IPREDator, a VPN service
    aimed at keeping users anonymous and safe from being tracked by law
    enforcement. The service is slated for launch at the same time as the
    Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED),
    which will make it easier for content owners to directly target
    suspected copyright infringers with lawsuits.

    By Jacqui Cheng.

    The Pirate Bay is planning to launch a paid VPN service for users
    looking to cover their tracks when torrenting. The new service will be
    called IPREDator, named after the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights
    Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that will go into effect in April.
    IPREDator is currently in private beta and is expected to go public next
    week for EUR5 per month.

    IPREDator is clearly a response to the introduction of IPRED in Sweden,
    which will allow law enforcement and copyright holders to request the
    personal details of suspected infringers. The copyright holders will
    then be able to make direct contact with the accused users and
    presumably threaten them with lawsuits.

    If users connect to The Pirate Bay through something like Tor or VPN,
    however, they're less likely to be tracked. IPREDator's website says
    that it won't store any traffic data, as its entire goal is to help
    people stay anonymous on the web. Without any data to hand over,
    copyright owners won't be able to find individuals to target.

    This, of course, is likely to irk law enforcement even further, as it
    has been on The Pirate Bay's case for years. Some three years after
    Swedish police raided the site and confiscated its servers, a few of The
    Pirate Bay admins finally went on trial for copyright infringement
    earlier this year. The world is still awaiting the verdict (expected to
    arrive on April 17), though those behind The Pirate Bay maintain that
    what they're doing is entirely legal. In fact, Pirate Bay spokesperson
    Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi said during the trial that 80 percent of The
    Pirate Bay's torrents are for content that's legal to share online.

    more...
    
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/03/the-pirate-bay-to-roll-out-secure-vpn-service.ars

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