IPREDator: topside taste of what’s to come
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- IPREDator, The Pirate Bay’s anonymity service, is out today, says ReadWriteWeb, basing is prediction on the IPREDator site which in March announced the coming of the service on ‘Wednesday,’ but didn’t give the actual date.
“IPREDator is a network service that makes people online more anonymous using a VPN,” p2pnet quoted the IPREDator site as saying when news of its coming first broke.
It, “costs about 5 EUR a month and we store no traffic data. our service is right now in a beta stage,” says the site, adding, “it looks like we will release it around wednesday. sign up now to start using it as soon as we’re stable. the network is under our control. not theirs. the pirate bay likes and knows real kopimism. and waffles.”
So is today the Wednesday? We’ll see.
Meanwhile, “Right now, we have 113,000 who have joined the queue,” The Local has TPB’s Peter Sunde saying today. “He estimates that around 80 percent are Swedes.”
And among the other 20% is p2pnet contributor surfer, who says IPREDator represents, finally, “a topside taste of what’s to come.”
He goes on »»»
‘Darknets’ as described recently here on p2pnet, have outlined in broad strokes how file sharing might work, hypothetically.
The taste of things to come is ‘ghosting’, or identity masking.
When Bittorrent firstcame out, it was evaluated, and because it has tracker api built in, it could be ’sniffed’ (observed externally of the connecting parties). Footprints, we called them. If you bittorrent’ed, you left your IP (Internet Protocol Address) behind while downloading it, (easily captured from a seed) , and possibly in logs. (seeder logs, host, traceroute jumps, provider, local router, and so 0n).
Its’ a mishmash out there of muddy footprints of end users plodding their way thru the internet — no wonder it’s so easy for Google to phish sheeple info. Numbnuts are leaving their footprints everywhere.
The Government (USA) requires banks to report all transactions over 10,000usd, but what they don’t tell you is is: not all at once. Therefore, the banks in amerika report every single pizza delivery and phone call transaction.
Don’t get shocked yet, though: it gets worse.
The Pirate Bay is offering a vpn service called IPREDator, but it’s nothing new. Most serious darknets started encrypting packet transfers in the late 90s, and several people, including myself, have reviewed vpn as an option.
I currently do no surfing without ‘cleaning’ my shoes first.
What I do online is my business, not some advertiser’s, not the thugs at the MPAA, and certainly not my government.
The old adage that if you put a frog in a hot pan, he’ll jump out, but if you put a frog in a pan and slowly turn up the heat, the frog will cook, applies with your rights.
They’re slowly whittle them away, so no big uprising.
The amerikan constitution should read, ‘we the corporations …’
I signed up for beta testing IPREDator, and am checking other vpn options as well.
It looks like it’s time to go this route.
The industries will continue to roll out their best efforts to inhibit file sharing, but nothing they ever do will matter much.
While I dont have a review of IPREDator yet, because it’s not available so far as I know, once it is, I plan on using it (vpn) in the future for my server(s).
Stay tuned
surfer – p2pnet
ReadWriteWeb – IPREDator, the Terrifyingly Awesome Privacy Tool Prepares to Launch, April 7, 2009
p2pnet – The Pirate Bay IPREDator VPN service, March 24, 2009
The Local – Pirate Bay shields 100,000 users, April 8, 2009
described recently – DarkNets: not tomorrow, but here and now, April 2, 2009
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April 8th, 2009 at 10:11 am
As a person living in Stockholm, I’ve signed up for the beta and am eagerly waiting for this too.
I’ve already been with Relakks for a while, which gives me a couple of pros and cons to compare to IPREDator once i sign up with them… I’ll let you guys know the results:
in a p2pnet article
April 8th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Relakks sounded good and was good at first. Then it went downhill. Speed sucked, latency was horrid.
Will this be the same?
April 8th, 2009 at 11:59 am
“Itsâ a mishmash out there of muddy footprints of end users plodding their way thru the internet â no wonder itâs so easy for Google to phish sheeple info. Numbnuts are leaving their footprints everywhere. ”
surfer, having read that, i need to ask, does this mean surfing torrent sites by proxies (tor) doesnt help
with the muddy footprints????
April 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Actually for thsoe corporations and rogue governements trying to control the internet it is going to become totally impossible to monitor or control anything. Why?
Because eventually people will abandon the Internet for P2P Wifi network in which each computer is a client and a server and maintain a network without central server by connecting directly to each other. This type of network will be faster than internet and can span entire continents. Only a limited amount of system might have to still be on internet to hoop between continents. The ISp will dissapear and they have to thank the entairtainement industry for that.
Moreover since form now on everyone will have encrypted and anonymous connections it will be open season for pederastes and terrorists alike.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
surfing torrents by proxy DOES help, correct.
and RW is also correct, the harder the cartels push back against something as benign as file sharing, the more they empower Al Queda by forcing us to implement more and more anti-bullshit-ware, plain and simple.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
“The old adage that if you put a frog in a hot pan, heâll jump out, but if you put a frog in a pan and slowly turn up the heat, the frog will cook, applies with your rights.”
Not true.
He will eventialluly jump out once it become unconfortable. It will just take longer.
Our societies are not unconfortable yet but it is definitively getting hoter arround there.
Prepare to jump!
April 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
The last stance of the entairtainement parasites will be to try to force a global licensing on everyone that will benefit only themselves and not the artists. This would be communism.
If this hapen we will have to destroy these corporations physically once and for all. Since it is easier to destroy businesses than to build them they are not going to make it ever if it come to this.