The promise of Internet anonymity has always been a refuge for snake oil salesmen looking to profit from the RIAA’s scorched earth legal campaign. There have been countless operations over the years that have offered everything from specialized VPN software and supposedly anonymous DSL to proxy servers or encryption in order to supposedly protect users from the ever watchful eye of the entertainment industry.

With the RIAA now supposedly ditching the “sue ‘em all” campaign in exchange for making ISPs Internet babysitters, the market is apparently hot once again for anonymity products, particualy ones capable of dodging looming ISP filters. Torrent Freak directs our attention to a new outfit named VPN4Life, which is promising a lifetime of unlimited, anonymous VPN-based BitTorrent access for (.00 introductory). From the site:

Like most promises of Internet anonymity this is likely not a high quality operation, especially considering the fact that traditional VPN services offering unlimited data transfers cost in the neighborhood of – per month.
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