IPredator was a

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offered with the stated goal of providing

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. It was co-founded by

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, as a response to the introduction of IPRED in

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, which will allow

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holders and law enforcement officials to request personal information about

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suspects.

History

On 12 August 2009, beta testing invitations were sent out to those who entered their

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es into the beta signup form. Additionally, the homepage has changed to reflect the beta. The service initially only used

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(supported natively in XP, Vista, Windows 7, OS X and

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through the use of PPTP-linux) to tunnel the connection through servers (vpn.ipredator.se which resolves to multiple IP addresses) located in Sweden. On September 14, 2009, IPredator "The Second Batch" became available for public. On November 28, 2009, IPredator became publicly available and exited the beta stage. This was done in response to the

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coming into effect on December 1, a law which would allow the FRA to intercept internet communications crossing the Swedish border. In concert, The Pirate Bay changed its logo on December 1, 2009, to an image depicting FRA as Glass Joe, the first and weakest opponent from the video game

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. The image linked to IPredator's website with the message "FRA vs IPredator - It's on!" OpenVPN support was added in August 2012.

Payment

In July 2013,

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stopped providing payment services to IPredator. In addition, all the organization's funds had been frozen for up to 180 days. The account was reinstated the next month. Conversely Paysafecard, to which many customers had switched while PayPal was unavailable, canceled support for iPredator.

Merger

In October 2020, IPredator was merged into Njalla, a privacy-focused

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and hosting service also founded by Sunde.

References

External links

* {{The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay Virtual private network services

History

Payment

Merger

See also

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