IPREDATOR
p2pnet news view | P2P : I just got my super secret squirrel invitation to IPREDATOR service offered by the blokes at The Pirate Bay.
They want $1982.38 USD for 3 months of service !!!!
I am speechless after that…
surfer
Share The Wealth!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Haha, WHAT?
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
That’s a joke right?
If so I
a) don’t get it and
b) find nothing funny in it.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Which blokes are we talkin’ about now?
a) Those 3 young Swedes they charged a little while ago;
b) The supposed new owners from the GGF.
(I just feel like I hafta ask now.)
July 24th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Note how they solemnly promise they store NO “personal details” about their customers for the Relakks – err I mean “Ipredator” – service. Then they turn around and ask you to submit your creditcard number, which they STORE so they can rebill you. Hmmm, what’s wrong with this picture?
First, be honest. The rest depends on that. Ipredator = honesty fail.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:06 am
149,00 Swedish Kronos converted to US Dollars.. needless to say, I only got past email address and password, both of which were created as disposable so I could peek under the hood.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:33 am
149 Swedish Kronor is about 20 $ US so not that much really for a three month service.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:15 am
No links, very short article = spoof
July 24th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Surfer, here’s a tip for you:
Don’t drink and do math.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Hahaha and I thought I was bad at math! =)
Just google “149 SEK to USD” mate, or better yet:
http://tinyurl.com/ly942w
July 24th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Maybe somebody typed in 14900 SEK, not 149.00 SEK?
July 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Lol, the European way for showing the decimal in currency is to use a comma, not a decimal point like the US and others. As a consequence, Surfer must have assumed they wanted 149 thousand Kronor (and he just either missed the lack of 3 zero’s or assumed they had commited a typo), so he based his math on that.
rofl…
July 24th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Just realised. My previous comment is a little wrong. Clearly surfer didn’t realise the comma was a decimal currency break, so he used 14,900 kronor as the base for the conversion.
July 24th, 2009 at 8:43 am
2 grand? Wow sounds like gr8 value!
Remember children, the heros that run TPB are doing this for YOU!!!
/sarcasm
July 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am
NO, I did not know the EU use a comma for break, so 149,00 KR is around $198 USD, whew…
July 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I can still do it for free on a mac, I only signed up to see if it was real.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Still a little wrong, heh ^^
the current rate is 1 SEK = 0.133801 USD, so 149 kr would give only ~$20 ($19.936 to be exact), so just move the comma yet another step to the left (or the point in your case ^^…).
July 24th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
@surfer:
…Due Diligence, Due Diligence, Due Diligence…
July 24th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
shit, for 20USD, mebbe I will pay and test some more.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
man all this talk about currency conversion makes me wanna rob a bank…
July 24th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Pirate Bay abre IPREDator to more users
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techspot.com%2Fespanol%2Fnoticias%2F35584-pirate-bay-abre-ipredator-a-mas-usuarios.html&lp=es_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
The relatively new service âIPREDatorâ of The Pirate Bay is one of the answers that the equipment has devised for the demand presented/displayed in his against. It obtains although it of TBP is to become totally legal, his developers even want to improve service P2P at the moment available. With this goal in mind, IPREDator was abierto to this week to a great amount of users for its beta tests.
Avoiding the restrictions of the suppliers of governmental Internet and regulations, this service offers a tunnel VPN with codification 128-bit so that the users can connect to pages and torrents P2P of way anonymous and completely impossible to rake. At the moment they are 180,000 people who are proving the service of gratuitous way but when he is ready has a monthly cost.
When IPREDator is finished enters to compete with other services VPN that offer a similar functionality. Nevertheless, TBP hopes to also use their fame like the fact that the service will be hosteado in Sweden, since the Swedish laws do not require that they give information that at least the positions can take to two years of prison at least. Even if they get to be with another legal eddy, IPREDator promises not to keep information from its users reason why it would not have sense that the regulating agencies press by information on their clients.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
@surfer, thanks for the laugh, (i wouldnt know how to convert the crap either)
and let us now how the try out works!!
stw
July 25th, 2009 at 5:39 am
I signed up for the IPredator, the speeds are OK’ish I guess, just depends on your speed to Sweden, but I go to log in today and, nothing. VPN cant connect, no site. I do hope my 20 bucks hasn’t vanished into the ether, and they are experiencing just a little over subscription.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Ok, panicked a bit too soon. All back up and running fine. I would recommend to anyone else who has had a letter from their ISP about d/l’ing torrents etc. One thing you can be sure of is that the law will get tougher before it gets better, so just in general a secure VPN is the way to go, and if I’m gonna have to pay money for it, I’d rather it was to people like TPB, rather than Warner Bros, Sony et al..
November 21st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Very easy to set up. The cost is nothing compared to the security of surfing (legally) without “big brother” snooping into your business. Hip Hip Horrahh for TPB!
April 20th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
so has anyone from the united states signed up for this and can verify that im not going to get ripped off…. and is there any other options? like cant i scramble the IP myself some how?