Slashdot broke a story earlier today claiming that The Pirate Bay had launched a free VPN service called PrivitizeVPN.

Interesting, except for the fact that it’s not a Pirate Bay project.

The Pirate Bay team informed TorrentFreak that they have nothing to do with the service.

They’re just running it as an ad next to the regular download links.

Of course this doesn’t mean that a free VPN isn’t a good deal.

That is, if you can navigate around and remove the ad-ware. Especially the “Babylon” toolbar that’s installed without the chance to opt-out is an unpleasant surprise.

Even then it’s still the question whether it will work. When we tried it there was no connection possible.

According to people close to PrivitizeVPN they are working on improving the service.

Those looking for a more stable and high bandwidth VPN are probably better off looking for a paid alternative.

Update: The Pirate Bay Facebook mods also believed that this was an official TPB product. Again, this is not the case.