Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown * TorrentFreak
A series of arrests including one last week has sparked concerns that a rare 'Scene' crackdown may be underway in the Nordic region.
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Lesson: either get a seedbox, get a VPN in Amsterdam, or live in South/South-east Asia.
Seedbox
I've admitted kinda taken a backseat to piracy for the last while, and I've seen this term come up a ton. Is it just a remote server that you download all of your shit on?
Yup. If you care about ratio then it has some proper speeds and ssd. But most people use it as a hop. I stopped and switched the arr to a docker network that only uses proton vpn. Best decision ever.
Precisely but it doesn't have to be remote. Some people self host locally but that requires a fast connection and a vpn. Most remote seedbox's are basically virtual private servers. They usually have apps like Jellyfin or plex for streaming all your content locally. Which is what I do and it's very automated and convenient. You can also use your seedbox as a vpn tunnel. If you're a member or interested in private torrent trackers, a seedbox is recommended to help keep your ratio high.
Is this actually considered seedboxing? I always thought it was a remote thing for an extra layer of privacy
They can be. It's really down to user preference. You can setup your own server locally with containers and vpn Killswitches, or you can pay monthly on some server space remotely. A seedbox is basically just a server for seeding/torrenting.
Yes
I believe this is more about scene release groups. People that rip bluerays or retrieve copies of cinema movies
They should be using seedboxes to seed, and should be using VPNs in other countries to upload their content. Worst case scenario, torrenting completely moves to i2p, eradicating the problems being faced by these groups today
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?
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.
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.
How about Denmark?
That's the thing, you'd have to connect to the seedbox via VPN anyways.
I'm using usenet anyway, always have, always will ;-)
How do you find good things on Usenet now? So much of it is uploaded encrypted
That's what the indexer is for, no? Gives you the keys and a map.
What indexer?
Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/ for starters
Most of the good ones are either invite only or pay for, and even then you'll only get access to some of the keys needed.
None of the free ones provide keys as far as I've been able to find.
It seems rather messy and convoluted compared to how usenet used to be.
Why Amsterdam specifically?
Plenty of data centres and the Netherlands are excellent in terms of government policy towards "sharing"
Good to know. I've been concerned about finding host nations that let us do what we want.