Most VPN providers have a disclaimer or clause in their TOS which excludes the use of their services for P2P traffic of an any nature (illegal or not). Many VPN servers got suspended lately by hosting providers due to DMCA complaints, so VPN providers are very careful when it comes to P2P/torrent traffic.
I have made a research and found 7 VPN services that still can be used for anonymizing your torrent traffic. Here are torrent vpn services:
HideMyAss
HideMyAss Pro VPN is an easy to use application which anonymously encrypts your entire internet connection. The tool automatically works with any application or protocol including p2p/bit-torrent.
IP Address Location: US/UK/NL/DE/CA/SE
ItsHidden
ItsHidden is a free VPN that works on BitTorrent (BT) traffic including uploading and downloading transfer. Thus, it’s useful for users who torrent traffic been throttled by their ISP, or users who need to hide themselves for anti-piracy organizations from sharing copyrighted materials.
IP Address Location: Netherlands
BolehVPN
BolehVPN provides a service to; bypass your internet throttle – allowing you to download torrents at max speeds, protect your surfing privacy, and bypass websites censored by your ISP. All this in one easy setup.
IP Address Location: EU/US
[BolehVPN]
AceVPN
AceVPN is a VPN service that you can use to privately and securely surf and download on the internet without leaving a trace and/or being tracked. AceVPN allows P2P traffic only for premium accounts.
AceVPN requests their users to limit the upload and the download speed to 100kbps, so that it does not affect other users on the network.
IP Address Location: US
[AceVPN]
CyberGhost
CyberGhost is a free VPN service with servers located in Germany. Actually, it’s a commercial VPN service that also has a free version. The free version, called Basic, it’s limited 10GB a month broadband usage. The P2P/torrent is allowed but with traffic limitations.
IP Address Location: Germany
PacketiX VPN
PacketiX.NET online test service is a free VPN service offered by SoftEther. It is a test platform for developing PacketiX VPN 2.0, a high-security VPN system. This service can be used to browse with Japanese IP address.
IP Address Location: Japan
BTGuard
BTGuard reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through servers in Canada. This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, will see BTGuard’s IP, and not yours. BTGuard is simple to install and use – just download and install. For more advanced users, you can also configure your own BitTorrent client.
IP Address Location: Canada
[BTGuard]
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Not only do we “allow” peer to peer traffic, we encourage our customers to use our secure network for any protocol, any traffic, any port. We also have always offered only unlimited-access service – never charging our customers for using “too much” connectivity.
Coming up on two years of success in standing between our customers and the media cartel mercenaries. We’ve NEVER turned customer info over to anybody, NEVER disconnected a customer based on a threat, and NEVER blocked a port or website or protocol.
Fausty | torrentfreedom.net
Try Freedur!! Freedur is the fastest VPN I’ve ever used. Fast, stable and cheap!
@Fausty | torrentfreedom.net – Does anyone know if this torrentfreedom thing is real or fake? Are they a real provider or do they keep/sell/hack/malware your information?
Hi, Think that you should have Black VPN on this list, great service and great price, Using it on my Mac with Viscosity, works perfectly, and much better and faster than my previous VPN provider. No connection drops so far, and have not noticed any speed decrease so far.
Keep in mind that Cyberghost is bound to German law, thus was forced by court to implement the possibility to log traffic. In their newsletter they stated the following:
“1. Wenn wir eine bestimmte Einwahl-IP bekommen, sind wir in der Lage
diesen User nach der Einwahl-IP zu selektieren und den Datenverkehr zu
überwachen.
2. Wir können den Zugriff auf eine bestimmte Internetseite
(beispielsweise eine Seite mit Kinderpornografie) überwachen und
feststellen, welche Einwahl-IP auf diese Seite zugreift.”
I translate:
1. Given a specific IP used for dialing into our network, we are capable of selecting this user and watch the data traffic.
2. We are able to log the access to a specific website (e.g. child porn sites) and find out which dial-in IP accessed this website.
In other words: Cyberghost DOES log traffic data IF authorities want them to do so.
Regarding torrentfreedom. Its slow as hell, I was stupid enough to follow internet hype and paid for a year. Forget about p2p, hell even simple web browsing seems like old 56k modem speed. What does that tells you?
I have found this torrent vpn service to anonymous downloading torrents.
Probably it will help something.
I’ve been using vpntunnel.se and their service is great. Fast speeds at a fair price!
This is a good selection of anonymous VPN service providers to anonyimize torrents. I have written several articles regarding anonymity and security on my blog which may be of some interest to other bloggers.
Thanks for this list.
Regards Anonymous VPN
For torrent downloading by vpn I use http://www.torrentvpn.com and I am very happy with speed and support. they have been the best among the several companies I have tried.
I use hideipvpn.com (http://www.hideipvpn.com/premium_vpn/) their servers located in Germany and NL alloow for p2p/torrent traffic without any limits (http://www.hideipvpn.com/premium_vpn/). I have to say I am extremly happy with the servic. Servers are fast and stable + I got acces to british and american TV.
Anonyproz.com offers OpenVPN based VPN services with servers in US, Canada, France, UK, Malaysia and Romania. P2P and BitTorrent traffic is allowed with unlimited bandwidth and a pre-configured openvpn client installer is provided to connect to all servers for one price. No logs are left as a logs are automatically deleted every 5 mins.
They also have a custom IPfilter system to prevent connecting with with unwanted peers on P2P networks by using blocklists.
Free OpenVPN on fast, reliable servers.
Hostizzle.com is beta-testing its service, so offers encrypted OpenVPN connection for free/low cost.
Check out the website for more information, or comment here.
I have been using cryptocloud for the past year and have been impressed enough that I will stick with it for the coming year. For well seeded torrents, I routinely get 12Mbps out of my 15Mbps connection. With TCP or UDP access, its very useful for establishing a connection through the corporate firewall at the workplace. I like the OpenVPN capabilities, but they now also have PPTP for ease of use, which is good when traveling with my portable devices.
are these free of charge?
Never mind I guess not!
HMA sucks, they have discontinued my subscription cause some jackass tracked me to them, and they received a message of my downloading, and so I’ve been banned with lost funds, cause I’d purchased a year’s subscription, and have been only using them for 3mths. Ya this sucks, I’ve lost, so beware of these assholes, THEY SUCK!!!
@Anonymous – As mentioned in main article, CyberGhost has a free version; I’ve been using it for a couple weeks. Monthly limit is 1 GB, not 10 GB as mentioned above. Pay versions have varying levels of web storage and monthly limits. HQ (and majority of servers) is still in .de, but core operations were moved to .ro in June 2011. CG automatically anonymizes all internet connections, but by default does not allow outgoing email so it can’t be used for spamming. Under the Settings / Exceptions tab you can enter your email server to be excluded from anonymization, so you can send email while CG is running. Works well, speed is good.
just to second JCMC, HMA diabled my account as well. email excerpt: “We have received a file sharing complaint and the date, time, and IP address provided matches the date, time, and IP address your VPN account was in use; as a precaution we have disabled your account for violation of our terms of service.”
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