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VPN For Kazaa Users Launched

Posted by simoniker on from the hiding-behind-screen dept.

prostoalex writes "AnonX allows Kazaa users to connect to its own VPN, effectively obfuscating their original IP address that certain association has been using to subpoena the file-sharers. The company is created by a Texas ISP employee, but is registered in Vanuatu, and already has 7,000 users paying $6 a month."

3 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Which is wonderful.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Only if you do it after the police ask you for the logs. If not keeping logs is standard procedure, you're free and clear.

  2. Three Words by Hell+O'World · · Score: 2, Informative

    Digital Rights Management.
    The experience of downloading music from Kazaa, even though it can't beat the old Napster, is still miles above the new legal downloading systems, because you can do whatever you want with the music when you get it, unencumbered by artifical limitations.
    I want my MP3s.

  3. I actually used it... by OverkillTASF · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not just for Kazaa. It's a VPN that any and all of your Internet software can use. Use it at work to get around nazis who block listening to Di.fm, use it at school to get around port blocking and throttling....

    My interest in it was actually getting unfirewalled, as that cripples Internet performance. But my school blocks the protocols necessary for outbound VPN connections, so I only had it for a month.

    It's nice because you don't need their proprietary software. You just download a VPN connection file and voila, there's your tunnel.