imagine if they spent half as much time going after abusers or billionaire tax cheats as they do people who download game of thrones from seven years ago.
Depends on how much you are willing to pay for size vs speed vs bandwidth.
Can become more costly than simply a VPN and a HDD very quick if you want to get into the long term seeding but also getting new stuff.
Depends on which plan and provider you go thru. I’ve been with mine for quite a few years, pay $7.62/month. I get 2TB of storage, 4TB of traffic (if you use ftp/sftp to download/stream your files, it doesn’t count against that, so mine goes all to seeding). Download speed is unlimited, upload speed is 50000 Mbps.
It’s not hard at all, you have a control panel where you can one-click install your choice of torrent app and web client, then you just use web client (which looks identical to the desktop app, at least in my situation with rtorrent/rutorrent). Other apps available on my plan for one-click install are: Airsonic Advanced, Audiobookshelf, Autobrr, Bazarr, Deluge, Doplarr, Filebrowser, FlareSolverr, Jackett, JDownloader2, Jellyseerr, LazyLibrarian, Lidarr, MariaDB, Medusa, Mylar3, Nextcloud, NZBGet, NZBHydra2, Ombi, Overseerr, Prowlarr, pyLoad-ng, qBittorrent, Radarr, Radarr2, Readarr, Resilio Sync, SABnzbd, SickChill, Sonarr, Sonarr2, Syncthing, Tautulli, The Lounge, Transmission, WireGuard, ZNC. If you want to run Plex, Jellyfin or Emby on the seedbox you’ll have to get one of the higher tier plans. I used to download movies/tv shows over sftp and used to run plex on my home network, but now I just point VLC to SFTP path of the movie/tv show I wanna watch and it streams flawlessly (home connection is 300/10).
Feel free to DM me if you’d like more details about who I use.
Ohh, I had no idea those come with easy installs of the *arr stack. Too bad about jellyfin being locked to higher tiers but manual streaming doesn't seem that complicated either.
I have a vpn through a proton mail plan but it was giving some p2p errors last time I tried it, maybe setting that up properly would be a better first step if it's possible.
Thanks for a detailed answer!
edit: Ahh, proton vpn p2p support is locked behind a higher tier, but at ~$7 per month for a seedbox upgrading the proton package might be a better deal in the end
On a seedbox you (usually) have a heavily shared ip. As in shared with dozens of other people. So the rights holder cannot identify who of these dozens of users pirated their content and therefore can’t sue.
I watched a thing about copyright and trademark enforcement where the corporate organization was somehow able to gather a team of 50 police at tax payer expense and march them into a Sunday market in order to capture and shut down market stores selling fake knockoffs. You could see how wildly unpopular it was with the entire crowd around them where some shoppers even continued browsing and trying to purchase goods from the shut down stores even with cops standing right there trying to make the crowd move on.
Copyright and trademark infringement against multi-billionare companies with continuous record profits is seen as a victimless “crime” at best by the vast majority of people, even reasonably well off people too. The only repercussion if you’re “caught” should be just paying the actual construction/reproduction cost of the item which is pennies, they weren’t going to make this sale at their ridiculous retail price in the first place and their real losses are miniscule at best.
that is the case in Australia, courts ruled only actual loss can be pursued (cost of a DVD basically) which made it uneconomical for IP holders to sue individuals. they still messa round the edges and tried to get the government to ban access to pirate sites (easy to bypass)
We really need to push for the use of i2p for torrenting. Given that the the offer of VPNs with port forwarding that are decent is little and decreasing every year.
I feel like most people including producers don’t care so much, they care more about promoting more people to get into the whole creatives sector so to speak so that there’s less concentrated loss of capital and risk for everyone involved including the pirates and “copyright enforcers”
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