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Ipredator VPN service goes live
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article published on 19 January, 2010
In March, the founders of the giant public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay announced their plans to release a virtual private network (VPN), allowing for users to browse the Internet anonymously.
This morning I received an email stating the service has gone live. Says the email:
A while ago you showed an interest in our VPN service, Ipredator (www.ipredator.se)!
The service was ... [ read the full article ]
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AfterDawn Addict
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20. January 2010 @ 06:21 |
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This is a terrible name...iPredator? Sounds like a service dedicated to rapists!
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20. January 2010 @ 09:50 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
This is a terrible name...iPredator? Sounds like a service dedicated to rapists!
It's a play on Sweden's "Ipred" legislation.
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20. January 2010 @ 10:54 |
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Our goal is making people have the ability to use their democratic rights, without a fear of repression.
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20. January 2010 @ 11:24 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
This is a terrible name...iPredator? Sounds like a service dedicated to rapists!
It's a play on Sweden's "Ipred" legislation.
That's true ye but it really is a badly thought out name. I understand what they were going for... it's a direct response to the anti-piracy IPRED legislation... but the word predator has "sex criminal" tone to it... I'm not sure you'd want it on your credit card statement ;-)
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emugamer
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20. January 2010 @ 12:20 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
This is a terrible name...iPredator? Sounds like a service dedicated to rapists!
It's a play on Sweden's "Ipred" legislation.
That's true ye but it really is a badly thought out name. I understand what they were going for... it's a direct response to the anti-piracy IPRED legislation... but the word predator has "sex criminal" tone to it... I'm not sure you'd want it on your credit card statement ;-)
I would totally feel like the label internet predator had been given to me. Definitely poorly thought out, like when Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)decided to market himself as an Anal-rapist on his business cards, since he was both an Analyst and Therapist.
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elbald90
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20. January 2010 @ 12:20 |
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That's true ye but it really is a badly thought out name. I understand what they were going for... it's a direct response to the anti-piracy IPRED legislation... but the word predator has "sex criminal" tone to it... I'm not sure you'd want it on your credit card statement ;-)
id be proud to have it on mine :)
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Geoff_W
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21. January 2010 @ 11:14 |
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I like how they tried to be noble about it, but the whole point is to keep their file-sharing and BitTorrent service alive, which they'll now make even more money off of since it requires a subscription cost instead of just ads on Web pages.
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Gh0ce
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21. January 2010 @ 13:01 |
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if this service shows up on your credit card statements, how is it anonymous?
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hermes_vb
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21. January 2010 @ 22:59 |
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Actually the service has been available for quite some time if you had an invitation. Soon after they announced the plans for the service, I submitted my invitation request and got one 2-3 months ago. I never used it so I don't have any experience with the service. I just want to wait and see how people like it.
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hermes_vb
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21. January 2010 @ 23:02 |
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Originally posted by Gh0ce:
if this service shows up on your credit card statements, how is it anonymous?
It's anonymous regarding your internet activity only. Of course they need a credit card to charge you for their service.
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22. January 2010 @ 01:46 |
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Originally posted by Gh0ce:
if this service shows up on your credit card statements, how is it anonymous?
It's anonymous regarding your internet activity only. Of course they need a credit card to charge you for their service.
You can only buy it through a service called Alertpay.com, something similar to paypal. It does not show up as iPredator, or anything that would indicate this...it shows up as a payment to Alertpay. Becides, you can always claim you got it to keep nosey government agents from reading your emails.
If anyone is thinking of getting this service however, think again. It used to be rather quick, but now that it is a pay service, it is slow and unreliable...I have not been able to connect all night.
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Gh0ce
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22. January 2010 @ 10:10 |
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Originally posted by Gh0ce:
if this service shows up on your credit card statements, how is it anonymous?
It's anonymous regarding your internet activity only. Of course they need a credit card to charge you for their service.
You can only buy it through a service called Alertpay.com, something similar to paypal. It does not show up as iPredator, or anything that would indicate this...it shows up as a payment to Alertpay. Becides, you can always claim you got it to keep nosey government agents from reading your emails.
If anyone is thinking of getting this service however, think again. It used to be rather quick, but now that it is a pay service, it is slow and unreliable...I have not been able to connect all night.
It sounds like this service is slowly becoming more like tor... except that tor is free...
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23. January 2010 @ 05:49 |
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So far it has been good tonight...I only get about 600k Downstream/150k upstream...but it is running through a virtual PC, so that is part of the problem.
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