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Why would someone sign up for VPN when they could have set up the same thing with a much cheaper VPS?

Anyway i am currently looking for something similar to Amazon silk and Opera Turbo, where the server downloads the page, compress it and send it back to you. Extremely useful for low bandwidth connection, as well as providing half of the VPN function.

Does anyone know of software / scripts / services that are available?

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Because VPN works by diluting responsibility; i.e. in theory there is no problem to confirm that you have connect to a VPN/VPS X and that X made illegal action Y. However, while in case of VPN there are N other people who were also connected to X and thus might be blamed for Y, in case of VPS you are alone.

I would have thought that being the named owner of the VPS exposes you legally somehow, also that performing something like "illegal file-sharing" would be against your VPS's TOS.

Yes, this will be an issue - encryption or not.