So I am moving to Germany and since they are pretty rough on their piracy laws (even though I’ve not had a leak in ten years) I don’t feel the old VPN/killswitch/public tracker thing is going to keep me safe enough.

So I’ve been looking into seedboxes and am interested in ultra.cc but still using VPN and FileZilla for downloading. I read up on their allowance of public trackers, but if they receive a DMCA notice they can send it to you or delete your account.

So I ask, for those that use seedboxes how do you get by with public trackers? All I really care about is downloading games (FitGirl)… I am accepted to 1 private tracker but they have no games and am struggling…

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    18·
    8 days ago

    I haven’t had any issues with public trackers on ultra.cc. I probably download about 100 or so public torrents a month, but that’s not new release stuff that’s likely to get a DMCA notice.

    The VPN killswitch is not safe for bittorrent, it doesn’t work fast enough. Binding the torrent client to the VPN interface is safe though.

    • unglucklicherHund@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Does the VPN/killswitch even really matter when your torrent client is in a seedbox I’m not sure. I was under the impression it wasn’t even possible in this case

          • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            If they did they’d have the harddisk anyways so VPN wouldn’t stop anything.

            Unless you get the dedicated server options (which are significantly more expensive), you wouldn’t get to run your own encryption solutions to hide your entire disk from your seedbox provider anyways.

            • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              I’m not sure what the seedbox hard disk would have that would trace back to you. But if they have your IP address they can send a letter to your ISP or whatever they do.

              • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                23 minutes ago

                typically you’d just take a seedbox that wouldn’t do that (same criteria as when you are choosing a VPN, technically a shitty VPN can also leak out your info like this). Unless you are using like a mainstream commercial server like aws/azure as one.

                Most seedbox providers use virtual machines to have a bunch of customer share a single IP, and any self respecting ones will not keep logs to associate any particular outgoing connection with a particular customer.

      • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        8 days ago

        The killswitch isn’t safe for bittorrent on your own PC as they have a tendency to expose your IP briefly when the connection drops before it kicks in. Binding your torrent client to your VPN network is 100% reliable though so no need for a seedbox.