VPN For Kazaa Users Launched

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."

Comments

Re:Confusion

[0x0d0a]

Sure. It's a lot cheaper. If the music has equivalent value to you as a CD, downloading a single album has just paid for at least two months of service.

Remember that anyone downloading music/movies is investing time, hard drive space/bandwidth, and potentially CDRs anyway.

I actually hope that this company is a front for the RIAA, nailing those who are too stupid/greedy to figure it out.

[shrug] I kind of wish that all speeders would get nailed for breaking the law, potentially with speed-detection devices hidden in all cars. With speeding, people's lives are actually at risk (as opposed to folks just infringing copyrights). However, most people don't like the idea, because they like breaking the law to some degree. I suspect that the same applies to your "I hope the company is an RIAA front" idea -- probably most other people, like me, find the idea of going after users in such a manner distasteful.

Is This Article a Kazaa Ad?

[DynaSoar]

Because I don't see anything on the AnonX site that says anything specifically about Kazaa or any other file sharing system. It says it's for security for any online activity.

I think it's a damn shame that the first thing that comes to mind is file sharing, when far worse things like human rights violations are far more worth protecting. Yes, this proxy system is for that too.

Re:He'll be arrested real soon now....

[Mr. Slippery]

Let me get this right. A guy physically residing in the States is earning money from a service whose primary and almost sole intent is to facilitate the commission of a crime

No, you don't have it right. The intent of this service is to protect privacy.

Yes, the service could be used to anonymously perform illegal activities; it could also be used to anonymously send important information to law enforcement.