Who is fighting for freedom in Iran and individual rights for ALL? PIRATEBAY !! You can close your mouth now

Pirate Bay Launches VPN Service

The operators of The Pirate Bay launched a long-awaited VPN service Monday, promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online.

The IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service, at about $7 monthly, is named for Sweden's IPRED law that went into force in April. That law empowers copyright owners to acquire data from ISPs identifying people linked to file sharing.

The four operators of the Pirate Bay are staring down a year in prison each, and millions of dollars in fines, after being convicted in a Swedish court for facilitating copyright infringement. They run the world's most notorious BitTorrent search engine. Their fines and imprisonment are pending appeal.

On Monday, The Pirate Bay announced that 180,000 people have signed up for the service. Invitations to the first 3,000 who signed up in April went out Monday.

"There's been some small issues but it's being resolved right now," the Bay announced Monday on its blog. "Then we'll invite more people in... We're hoping that all will have their invite within a month's period."

TorrentFreak notes that the IPREDATOR service, announced in April, likely would be more secure than rank-and-file virtual private networks, which encrypt a user's traffic stream, making it theoretcially invulnerable to interception by a local ISP, or intermediate carriers.

SO WHAT?

Iran Activists Get Assist from 'Anonymous,' Pirate Bay

Iranian democracy activists, meet your new pals: a masked protest movement best known for needling the Church of Scientology, and a group of file-sharers so infamous they're facing a year in jail.

Anonymous Iran is a collaboration between The Pirate Bay -- operators of the world's largest torrent site, convicted in April of copyright infringement -- and Anonymous, the prankster collective dedicated to exposing "Scientology's crimes."

The new site offers tips on how to navigate online in private, upload files through the Iranian firewall, find the best activist Tweeters, and launch attacks on pro-government websites.

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