We have had many combined years of experience in this field and have decided to push our own offering to simplify ones experience. Regarding the IANAL aspect you can see here http://tinyurl.com/2bd45en where the #1 act in the world understand the stakes and where the true money is made. As for the pockets to stand up to them in Court, I would imagine there aren't many folks that do. We have quality legal minds on staff that are available 24hrs a day
Regarding the IANAL aspect you can see here http://tinyurl.com/2bd45en where the #1 act in the world understand the stakes and where the true money is made.
Oh, I don't doubt that many artists would welcome your service if it leads to a broader, more international audience. Yet I somehow doubt that the labels and their lawyers are necessarily going to be of the same opinion.
Anyway, if I may digress, if you happen to be offering the reverse service at some point, I'd like to watch German RTL Formula One coverage from the US. RTL even offers an iPhone app for that, but they check the user's location and block viewers not residing in Germany... :-(
These arbitrary "market segmentations" are really annoying and not the least in the interest in the viewer (who, sadly, is not the customer...). Good luck toppling them, I'll root for you.
How do you plan on withstanding network provider (and their upstream) pressure in response to DMCA notices related to file sharing activity?
Throughout our experience in the vpnworld most of the letters generated from this have been spam or bot generated and while we worked for other companies, there responses varied. We will address each on a case by case basis with our in-house counsel and/ /take the appropriate steps to resolve it swiftly.
As you are operating network equipment (a VPN concentrator) in the US, how are you complying with CALEA and still preserving the privacy of your users?
Through the research of our legal representation we are not a concentrator though that may be the closest designation to what we do. We have found that our model falls outside of any within the CALEA while many of our larger competitors that also are ISP's do not.
You operate on a monthly recurring billing model. What prevents a LEA from subpoenaing billing records to determine who is using your service and then comparing traffic patterns with CALEA captures from your network provider and your customer's network providers?
Could this happen? Absolutely, though there are no documented cases of this we have found that deal with a personal VPN provider on record and many of our competitors have been in business a great deal longer. I would imagine as well that something like this could be done without subpoena as well through back door channels should their be a particular dire need. There is no perfect privacy whatsoever and as individuals in a free society we must take responsibility for our own actions.
I guess I don't see how you can terminate VPN connections from users and not be a VPN concentrator but since you have a loophole, best of luck to you!
I have a small pile of routers with 3DES cards for terminating business VPNs at work (ISP) and have pondered offering end-user VPNs but the potential legal hassles weren't worth it to us.
I'm not sure I understand...isn't being able to watch online American TV / listen to American radio a benefit? or do you mean we should replace the features page with "benefits" such as being able to browse US-only websites?
I've launched a few days ago and it's currently in beta mode. I'm giving away 30 1-month accounts to HN members. Just send me an email (admin@styxvpn.com) and I'll get your account up and running in few minutes.
We only have US servers at this point, but we're expanding in Europe and Asia in the next few months. There are no speed limits and no transfer limits.
I have a 1024x768 screen, and the monitor logo on the right side of the page is extending up and partially blocking 'Sign Up', 'Affiliates', and 'Contact Us'.
Have you tested the website thoroughly on smaller screens?
Along the same topic I use a tilling window manager and will often have my screen squashed with terminals to the side. This http://imgur.com/SJVZW.png is what I see.
After navigating to any other page the navigation buttons no longer work. I viewed it on an iPad. Also there are quite a few spelling mistakes on the 'Features' page.
