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Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing

Posted by samzenpus on from the counting-grains-of-sand dept.

schliz writes "Developers of The Pirate Bay have launched their new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to some 180,000 pre-registered beta testers. An e-mail to beta testers read. 'IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients. IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!' The new service was launched to protect file sharers in response to the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect in April."

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  1. Re:Keep in mind... by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I fear you're probably right. But it is messed up that "taking steps to avoid sharing your personal information with your ISP" can be construed as "actively obstructing justice."

    A person who does nothing illegal might want to use this service simply because they value privacy.

  2. Re:Meh - black servers have been around for years. by m.ducharme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Despite the nastyness that you store on your own hard drive (which you couldn't read anyway unless you want searching for it), it's not like you or anyone else could ever prove it was on your system-

    I dunno. If I were a Fed, I'd break Freenet like this:

    Fed: "We have a bunch of nodes on the darknet that contain Bad Things."

    Judge: "What's a node?"

    Fed: "We surfed for Bad Things on Fed1, wrote the offending keys of the Very Worst Things into a textfile, and then ran a script on Fed2 that downloaded a whole bunch of the Very Worst Things. Fed2 is running a modified client that doesn't save chunks that are being passed through it to other machines. Therefore, the only stuff in its datastore is stuff that got there from our own requests. Then we walked away from Fed2's keyboard and let it stew for a few hours."

    Judge: ......

    Fed: "Right. When a request for a chunk comes in, and Fed2 doesn't have it, we just pass the request on to the next node. When a chunk comes through from some other node, our modified client passes it on without storing it locally."

    Judge: *blank stare*

    Fed: "...we add the requestor's IP address to the list of IP addresses for which we have probable cause to believe are requesting - or facilitating - the transmission of Bad Things. By the way, here's the list."

    Judge: "Signed. Go get 'em."

    I think the above changes might more accurately reflect reality.

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