For one thing, consider the fate of TPB. Most of its founders are in prison, and the servers were recently impounded. Then there's this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/swedish-isp-begins-offering-free-vpn-to-battle-data-retention-law/
I also had a trial of Mullvad in addition to BolehVPN. I managed to get 55MB from Bolehvpn and only 7MB from Mullvad
Hello GrafZeppelin, You can request a free trial as descibed here: https://airvpn.org/plans/ and they will send you a coupon code for a three day subscription... HTH...
Aren't all parts of the Europe practically the same? And besides, when it comes to copyright infringement issues every countries will get aggressive towards whoever they view as violators.
As I understand it, EU members have considerable leeway about implementation. True. But AirVPN (Italy) seems totally gung ho about torrenting, and doesn't even discourage it for their US exits. They must have huge pipes, solid hosting contracts, and a good system for handling DMCA notices. BolehVPN (Malaysia) doesn't seem to care either, although they do discourage (block?) it on their US exits.
Even if they are fine with torrenting I doubt they will be running around declaring that they support online piracy. It's not like Italy is softer when dealing with copyright infringement. Then again, it all depends on why one wants to use a VPN. If it's mainly about bypassing the state's great firewall, blending in with the crowd and masking themselves, IMO Mullvad is still as good as other respectable companies in this field.
AirVPN: "Every protocol is welcome, including p2p." Ambiguous, I admit BolehVPN: "The Surfing/Streaming servers [UK and US] CANNOT be used for P2P but is especially good for streaming US or Hong Kong-only content such as Hulu, Pandora, Veoh and such." Edit: And BolehVPN's tab icon looks like Hanuman
yeah but still their stance deserves appreciation. besides, this might lead to a rise in third-party vpn use.
Has anybody tried Cryptostorm? The GUI makes Mullvad's look positively sophisticated! Virtually no configuration options, just fire it up and go. Any comments/experiences would be appreciated.
I read somewhere a while ago that the owner of that company was convicted of bestiality and drug smuggling (I'm dead serious, look it up, the guy's a character), went to prison and got released suspiciously early. It's possible that he helped setup a honeypot type operation, the privacy policy and token payment seem almost too good to be true.
As krusty notes, Cryptocloud's founder was indeed involved in serious criminal craziness, and that may render him untrustable. On the other hand, Cryptostorm (Cryptocloud reborn) has taken an interesting approach to user management. And the operators are seemingly anonymous. There are no accounts, per se. Users purchase tokens, ideally with Bitcoins, which are valid for various periods of time. Tokens are available from various third parties, and directly from Cryptostorm. Only a server ca.key and token credentials (but no client certificate and key) are used for authenticating the OpenVPN connection. Also, I note that there are unfamiliar parameters in their OpenVPN configuration. But I'm not enough of a crypto geek to know if they're good, merely hand-waving, or bad. Someone more knowledgeable ought to take a look.
Damn! It was working well too. I think a good rule of thumb is never to trust any VPN provider who's into bestiality (although some may disagree). Thanks, krusty! Trying to find a VPN provider is giving me a migraine - off to AirVPN for a looksee.
More important, I think, are the concerns about getting busted and ratting on partners. It's arguable that those with much to hide are good at hiding things. However, his OPSEC was weak. But anyway, we don't know what role he plays in Cryptostorm. Maybe the bit about "financials via Québec/First Nations territories" is a hint.