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> "VPNs are the only way to stay safe when using something like BitTorrent" very wrong. It's not really much. It's probably just limiting your possible bandwid
by pilif 14y ago
> "VPNs are the only way to stay safe when using something like BitTorrent"
very wrong. It's not really much. It's probably just limiting your possible bandwidth.
If somebody wants to catch you, it's just one additional step to get to you (via the VPN provider).
- icebraining 14y agoIt certainly doesn't make you safe, but if the threat is a fishing expedition trying to get a few hundred or thousand Torrenters, the fact that they'd need a court order from a different country/jurisdiction might be enough to get them to leave you alone.
- w1ntermute 14y agoAnd a seedbox would work just as well for this purpose, and will result in much higher upload/download speeds and, in the case of private trackers, save you the costs of owning/running a PC on 24/7 to seed back your downloads.
- meritt 14y agommm. amazon micro free tier and rtorrent.
- voltagex_ 14y agoWouldn't Amazon stomp on you pretty quickly for this?
- TheAmazingIdiot 14y agoThey didn't the last time I did that. I had some dodgy stuff going on over at an amazon free tier, including; socks proxy, ping tunnel, Metasploit, semi hidden tor end-node, ctorrent, and a few other things. I also linked a 25$ visa card from a convenience store, so very limited traceability. All they did was bill me for the bandwidth.
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- nl 14y agoSome VPN providers explicitly state that they don't keep track of IP assignments. If they don't log that then it makes finding downloaders much harder.