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Rent a seedbox in eastern europe (somewhere like Belarus or Romania) and torrent your stuff from there. There's no way they can cost-efficiently get you that wa

Rent a seedbox in eastern europe (somewhere like Belarus or Romania) and torrent your stuff from there. There's no way they can cost-efficiently get you that way.

waihtis 6y ago
Tbh I dont really need illegal torrents nowadays, but thats an interesting concept for sure.
- mehdix 6y ago
  It is not necessarily about illegal torrents. There are some niche files such old movies that you wouldn't find anywhere to let you watch it where you live. I used to torrent some, just to keep it alive and prevent such works from disappearing from the Internet. However, I'd still prefer to torrent from a location that reduces the chance of receiving such letters from opportunity seekers to suck some cash out of me.
  - waihtis 6y ago
    You do have a good point - although the extortion lawyers were just contracted by some of the big studios. Ergo, the likelihood of being hunted by the heirs of a ww2-era Polish filmmaker or similar entity are considerably slimmer. :-) Youre right though in that its generally a good idea to stay anon when torrenting.
  - DangerousPie 6y ago
    The law firms aren't going after everyone who is torrenting, they are going after people downloading copyrighted material. You're not going to get a letter if you're downloading a torrent of the latest Ubuntu image.
    - aasasd 6y ago
      Not guaranteed, actually, due to the carpet-bombing strategy of targeting the ‘culprits’. Can't remember if Linux specifically was involved, but there certainly were some misfires. (Ironically, when I tried downloading fresh Ubuntu with desktop Transmission, it froze for a rather long while, presumably due to the near-two-thousand peers.)
      - smabie 6y ago
        It's not going to connect to most of them. The protocol doesn't scale linearly with the number of peers, so most clients won't connect to more than like 50 at a time. And will download from even less. With an infinite number of peers, 0% of the traffic would be actual file chunks. 100% would be bookkeeping. I guess that's a long winded way or saying that the issue probably wasn't with the number of peers.
  - fsflover 6y ago
    > However, I'd still prefer to torrent from a location that reduces the chance of receiving such letters from opportunity seekers to suck some cash out of me. Then you should consider torrents over I2P: https://geti2p.net/en https://geti2p.net/en
rendall 6y ago
How does one contact such renters?

Rent a seedbox in eastern europe (somewhere like Belarus or Romania) and torrent your stuff from there. There's no way they can cost-efficiently get you that way.

waihtis 6y ago

Tbh I dont really need illegal torrents nowadays, but thats an interesting concept for sure.

mehdix 6y ago
It is not necessarily about illegal torrents. There are some niche files such old movies that you wouldn't find anywhere to let you watch it where you live. I used to torrent some, just to keep it alive and prevent such works from disappearing from the Internet. However, I'd still prefer to torrent from a location that reduces the chance of receiving such letters from opportunity seekers to suck some cash out of me.
- waihtis 6y ago
  You do have a good point - although the extortion lawyers were just contracted by some of the big studios. Ergo, the likelihood of being hunted by the heirs of a ww2-era Polish filmmaker or similar entity are considerably slimmer. :-) Youre right though in that its generally a good idea to stay anon when torrenting.
- DangerousPie 6y ago
  The law firms aren't going after everyone who is torrenting, they are going after people downloading copyrighted material. You're not going to get a letter if you're downloading a torrent of the latest Ubuntu image.
  - aasasd 6y ago
    Not guaranteed, actually, due to the carpet-bombing strategy of targeting the ‘culprits’. Can't remember if Linux specifically was involved, but there certainly were some misfires. (Ironically, when I tried downloading fresh Ubuntu with desktop Transmission, it froze for a rather long while, presumably due to the near-two-thousand peers.)
    - smabie 6y ago
      It's not going to connect to most of them. The protocol doesn't scale linearly with the number of peers, so most clients won't connect to more than like 50 at a time. And will download from even less. With an infinite number of peers, 0% of the traffic would be actual file chunks. 100% would be bookkeeping. I guess that's a long winded way or saying that the issue probably wasn't with the number of peers.
- fsflover 6y ago
  > However, I'd still prefer to torrent from a location that reduces the chance of receiving such letters from opportunity seekers to suck some cash out of me. Then you should consider torrents over I2P: https://geti2p.net/en https://geti2p.net/en

rendall 6y ago

How does one contact such renters?