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

Speed problems?

[pilot1]

I just skimmed through their website, but it looks to me like their user's speeds would be limited by their bandwidth, just like any other proxy.
So what happens when 20% of those thousands of users get on Kazaa at once?

Disclaimers?

[CelticWhisper]

It's still nice to see that something's being done to help. Even if it is just another proxy service, that still makes it another proxy service that the RIAA has to expend time and effort to "manage."

I wonder, though, if they can implement some kind of disclaimer or warning (like those you see when logging into some FTP servers) that state that personnel from the RIAA or from record companies are not permitted to use the service. I may be mistaken, but that should provide some legal clout in the event they get h4xx0r3d (so to speak) and their users sued like so many others.

Re:Disclaimers?

[mumblestheclown]

I may be mistaken, but that should provide some legal clout in the event they get h4xx0r3d (so to speak) and their users sued like so many others.

I love those legal disclaimers that sites put such as "law enforcement people and RIAA members or affiliates are not permitted to enter this site." this attempt to hide from copyright infringement culpability is as laughable as it is juvenile.

for the record, they carry absolute zero clout, and doubly so in this era of DMCA. however, they probably make for good search terms.

Yawn....

[Neo Matrix Surfer]

I have been doing this for almost a year using an offshore service called the MetroPipe Tunneler and their SOCKS Proxy.

Just basic SSH Tunneling with an easy to use system that encrypts the traffic from your machine to MetroPipe, and from there you go out on the net via Proxies and others see MetroPipe and not your IP.

What is good about MetroPipe is that they are NOT located in the USA. And they do not keep logs to even give to anyone that even asks.
Let alone all the other Proxies they offer such as POP-FTP etc.

And about speed. Give me a break. Of course there will be a speed slowdown. That is the price to pay for an additional layer of privacy.

Boo Hoo. Additional hops mean slower download speed. Fine by me. The extra privacy and anonymity is well worth it. And with todays DSL speed I get, even with the additional HOP, I still have blazing speed especially if you try and price a raw T1.

I am happy with My 2 Cents. Peace.

anon.penet.fi redux

[HTH NE1]

He'll get shut down as soon as someone starts sharing secret Scientology documents over KaZaA through his service. After all, that's what brought down anon.penet.fi.