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Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown * TorrentFreak
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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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.