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NewTeeVee has reported that the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on an encryption technology to protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The name of the project is “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internet" or IPETEE for short. The Pirate Bay aims to provide encryption at the network level and not the application level, so that all data exchanged would be encrypted regardless of its nature.

The Pirate Bay have been in the news a lot for privacy concerns, specially highlighted by the fact that European politicians have been talking about moving to DMCA like copyright laws in Europe, which were authorized in the form of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive.

According to NewTeeVee:

Neij promises that his new encryption scheme will be ready before the law takes effect next January.

IPETEE will likely be implemented as an add-on to operating systems like Windows and OS X. It will essentially do its work in the background, handling all incoming and outgoing IP traffic without any further interference from the user.

Fredrik Neij, the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is keen on getting this one project out of the door soon unlike The Video Bay, PlayBle, and a new and secure P2P protocol yet to be launched. IPETEE is the most ambitious of all these, and would definitely become a standard in the industry once properly launched. This would also help users who have privacy concerns over the Internet, with fears of ISPs and government agencies snooping around their data against their will. This will also be a sign of relief for consumers who are fed up with the torrent throttling issues by their ISPs. Another fact of concern is whether governments would really want such a thing to be used and implemented by average people as they want to have full capability to snoop aound Internet traffic. We think they wouldn’t want this to happen and as such IPETEE will face much opposition if it sees the light of the day. Only time will tell if The Pirate Bay succeeds with this mighty project.

Here's hoping...