[Infowarrior] - Pirate Bay signs up 113K new anony-service users
Richard Forno
rforno at infowarrior.org
Fri Apr 10 13:03:59 UTC 2009
The Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Signs 100,000 Users Pre-Launch
By Wired Staff EmailApril 08, 2009 | 12:18:50 PMCategories: Yo Ho Ho
Kerstin Sjoden reports.
Piratebay Over 100,000 people have already signed up for The Pirate
Bay’s new anonymity service, Ipredator, designed to hide IP addresses
from the authorities, the Bay's spokesman says.
Last Wednesday, the controversial Intellectual Property Rights
Enforcement Directive (IPRED) became law in Sweden. Its main goal is
to enable copyright holders to acquire data identifying people linked
to illegal file sharing. Wired.com reported last week that internet
use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent when IPRED came into force on April
1.
Some 113,000 persons have signed up and are in queue for the Ipredator
service, and about 80 percent are Swede, Peter Sunde, spokesperson for
The Pirate Bay, said to the Swedish news agency TT Tuesday. The
service was originally set to go live on April 1, but the unexpected
high demand delayed it.
The service will operate much the same way as other anonymity
services, with one important exception: The Pirate Bay says it will
not log its data, making it more difficult to trace activity to a
specific user.
Ipredator is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which allows users to
anonymously connect to the internet. Their ISP-designated IP addresses
remain hidden, revealing only a second IP address provided by the VPN.
Details concerning the service are scant, except that users will pay a
fee of approximately $6 for the security of knowing that their actions
will be difficult to trace. The service is expected to start operation
on April 8.
There are already a numbers of sites online devoted to hiding user IP
addresses for a monthly fee, and in the wake of the country's new anti-
file sharing measures, the demand for such anonymity services has
increased across the board, according to the daily newspaper Svenska
Dagbladet.
One service, Dold.se, is currently informing visitors that its service
is "overloaded". Relakks.com, another service, says on its site that
it's seen a big wave of new customers recently, and that the service
might be slow as a result.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/the-pirate-bays.html
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