With the latest activities against The Pirate Bay, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: Pirates are at risk. As Stan Schroeder points out, "Although the initial Pirate Bay trial was awash in controversy, the pirates lost and now their corpse is being dragged around town."

As I blogged earlier, more BitTorrent users are going anonymous. Now that's possible for everyone, using VPN technologies for free. ItsHidden has the intentions to always remain free, also, which is exceptionally great for the Pirate community. ItsHidden keeps no logs, and encrypts all traffic between your computer and their servers. This gives you complete anonymity when browsing the web, and most importantly, using BitTorrent.

It took me around 2 minutes to set it up. I proceeded to do a speed test, and even though it only was considerably slower than my connection without such services, it's fast enough to download a movie in a few hours. I assume that some of the sluggishness is also due to the beta tag and, of course, the fact that it's free.

There is a $5 service available, however, I'm not sure if it has any benefits... yet. Perhaps eventually they'll give prioritized speeds or enhanced QoS features for paying members. Nonetheless, it's definitely worth looking into!