IPREDator
August 14th, 2009
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The IPREDator from the infamous Pirate Bay has recently sent out BETA invitations to those who have signed up on the mailing list! Users can now sign up and become more anonymous than ever with this new service. Since it’s from The Pirate Bay, the target for legal battles lately, this will be an interesting experience and possibly funny situation for prosecutors to tangle with! I mean, a certain large amount of people use The Pirate Bay everyday, whether it be seeding or leeching, it’s certainly large!
With the addition of IPREDator, pirates who have signed up for the service will rejoice in pure joy. The cost for anonymity with this service is low, asking for 149,00 kr a month, or about $6.50 for the US here. That’s a lot less compared to RIAA that demands thousands right? However, the website is in Swedish since it’s in Sweden, so make if you don’t speak Swedish, click on “Svenska” in the upper-right hand corner and choose English. The site additionally provides instructions for Vista, XP, and OSX users to configure their system to connect.
The IPREDator is basically a VPN, or virtual private network. It will hide your IP Address from any website or connection on the internet. So your IP Address is only shown to IPREDator, which then acts as a middle man between the content and you. Everything that you access goes through the VPN, and everything the site sends back goes through the VPN as well. Authorities cannot trace you through the VPN, and you are safe. The only reason why IPREDator would ever turn over your subscriber data to the authorities is if they had reasonable suspicion that you are breaking a Swedish law. Which is technically hard to do since they can only trace you back to IPREDator, but can’t get any farther, thus being unable to determine exactly who is the perpetrator in question.
IPREDator’s still in a closed beta, but it’s pretty interesting.