Protecting privacy when using torrents

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why do people think a seedbox is safe?

you need to buy a seedbox, which means providing all your contact details to them and paying by CC usually (or paypal, same thing).

If you download something illegal, the content provider will get the information leading them to your seedbox, and the seedbox provider will give them your contact details.

So where is the safety here?
 
ntg said:
why do people think a seedbox is safe?

you need to buy a seedbox, which means providing all your contact details to them and paying by CC usually (or paypal, same thing).

If you download something illegal, the content provider will get the information leading them to your seedbox, and the seedbox provider will give them your contact details.

So where is the safety here?
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The only useful part about a seedbox is the speed and the ability to get ratios up better due to bandwidth, but as far as security is concerned I have trouble imagining its any good at all.
 
ntg said:
why do people think a seedbox is safe?

you need to buy a seedbox, which means providing all your contact details to them and paying by CC usually (or paypal, same thing).

If you download something illegal, the content provider will get the information leading them to your seedbox, and the seedbox provider will give them your contact details.

So where is the safety here?
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Proper tinfoil hat time, buy a prepaid credit card from a newsagent and top it up in cash (non-sequential used notes) at a different newsagent while wearing a false tache and milkbottle bottom glasses. Or just don't do things you're not supposed to
 
YarwoodUK said:
Curious, how? Would they see the file-names? Would they really look that deep etc?
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Network monitoring software is really sophisticated, it can flag binary file transfers for human analysis automatically and on-the-fly if set to do so.
 
I think your kidding yourself if you think your hidden behind your box on the internet, your sharing much more than you could at home, most likely with a payment trail back to your door or an IP that you use to download the files.
Granted they go after the easy targets at the moment but how long for?
 
YarwoodUK said:
The seedbox host isn't going to give your info out without a court order.
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YarwoodUK said:
Again, not without a court order. How would my ISP know what I'm doing if I'm using FTP Connection to my seedbox to download torrent?
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Sin_Chase said:
They would if you were not using SFTP/SSH.
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I don't understand your comment about the court order. Whenever content providers go after users who share content illegaly they track them down using court orders. That's the only way, it's not as if they ask the ISP or the torrent site "hey who's downloading stuff from you", and they respond "Tom, Dick and Harry". They always use court orders so that is not going to protect you one bit.

Whether you use a secure FTP connection to a seedbox or not is irrelevant. When the attorneys track down the seedbox ip address and leads them to the seedbox provider they will get a court order to get your account details from the seedbox provider. Your ISP is largely irrelevant at that point as they already have enough evidence against you once they get your customer details from the seedbox company.

As far as the discussion of "yeah but how can they prove I logged in blahblahblah", that's all irrelevant as if you get to the point of getting legally involved you are already in trouble (even if you manage to get away scott free). The whole point of this issue is to not get involved in such legal proceedings at all, hence my comment that a seedbox doesn't offer any safety in that respect.
 
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