Filed under: Web services, P2P, Beta
A trio of practical anonymous torrenting options have arrived
iPredator VPN - We've known this one was coming for a while. The beta launch date got pushed back quite a bit, but that little courtroom skirmish may have slowed things down a little. In a blog post yesterday, the iPredator team announced that the first 3,000 beta invites have been sent out. If you're in the queue, don't start drooling just yet. There are 179,999 others names lined up.
Furk (pictured) - Find a torrent, paste it into Furk, and you're provided a direct download link. Even with the free account, I still averaged about 275k/s, which isn't much slower than what I typically manage on a straight torrent download (thanks to my ISP). Download links are also passed to you with SSL encryption. Just don't use it to download stuff like what's in the capture - it's there for illustration purposes only, of course...
Paid accounts are just under 10 Euros a month or 24/three months.
BitBlinder - Jay posted about this service the other day. The open source project aims to anonymize not only torrent downloads but also your web browsing. How does it work? Think of your Internet traffic as the fruit in a smoothie. Now take all your friends' fruit, chuck it all into a blender, and press 'liquify'. Pour it into a glass, and all you see is smoothie - you can't tell what's your fruit and what belongs to your friends.
As with iPredator you may be waiting a while to get your invite and download link.
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kingabraham3 said 1:01PM on 6-16-2009
or warez...beats all
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barelyadraft said 1:03PM on 6-16-2009
to all the Ipredator line-waiters, I recommend you use pr.ivacy.com instead. It costs the same and works as a charm.
If you wanna sign up, feel free to use my referral link: https://pr.ivacy.com/en/auth/signup?ref2=df0bf774f24bef6bafa7d15939c252bf
lots of love!
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der_tuxman said 2:09PM on 6-16-2009
Anonymous filesharing is bullsh*t. Well, if you believe it MAY work...You don't want to get caught? Don't do illegal things.(BTW I'm still addicted to eMule. It will, probably, survive BT. BT's file diversity and file lifetime are horrible. And: No, it is /not/ "slower" than BT. It all depends on the sources. Just like BT does.)
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fulltext said 2:28PM on 6-16-2009
Furk looks good even though it makes you think the torrented file is already on their server but will actually take 10 hours to download.
But what really banned it from my computer is the ubelievable amount of pop-up and pop-under porn. I had to quickly engage my internet lock and shutdown the browser and reboot to a previous state.
Its unfortunate because it looks like a promising service, but I won't be back
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Lee Mathews said 2:28PM on 6-16-2009
That's odd...I didn't see anything like that with the few torrents I tried. Will go back and re-test.
SRK said 8:57PM on 6-16-2009
@fulltext: Have you heard of FireFox? If yes, you should get AdBlock. If not, it's the 21st century. Time to move on to FireFox mate.
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