• @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    Is there a way to get and pay seedboxes anonymously? Otherwise the feds could “just” get your information from them. Like with every VPN service you got to trust the the service and their confidentiality (not keeping logs etc) I guess?

    • @[email protected]
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      1410 months ago

      Even if you do pay them anonymously, your IP will be recorded when you access/download from them. Case in point: Mullvad was forced to shut off port-forwarding because of torrent traffic on their network. Mullvad allows you to pay with Monero.

      Don’t do it for the privacy, do it because having the server in a different country like the Netherlands makes it easier to pirate. For all they know, you’re just accessing random IPs in the Netherlands and all they see is HTTPS traffic.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        IP alone isnt enough to convict someone in the states though. Since it only points to the local network and not the person on the network it could be anyone on that network. It was the issue the RIAA ran into when trying to take music downloaders to court.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        That’s the thing, you’d have to connect to the seedbox via VPN anyways.

        I’m using usenet anyway, always have, always will ;⁠-⁠)

        • Buck
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          110 months ago

          How do you find good things on Usenet now? So much of it is uploaded encrypted