A new service claims it can make your connection to Kazaa anonymous, for $5.95 a month.
“Available for $5.95 per month, AnonX sets up a virtual private network, or VPN, between a user’s computer and the company’s computers. The AnonX computers act as proxies, and actually do the Web surfing for the subscriber.
In theory, no one outside of AnonX can see the subscriber’s Internet address — including the Recording Industry Association of America (search) (RIAA), which has forced Internet service providers to turn over subscriber information as part of its campaign to sue hundreds of individual song downloaders.
Wasicek [the proprietor], 29, promises not to divulge his 7,000 users’ Internet addresses and believes he can’t be forced to do so.”
Observers are skeptical about both the technology and the legality of the enterprise. Maybe so, but a service of this kind, perhaps from overseas, is only a matter of time.
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