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Hello http://whatbox.ca http://whatbox.ca! People will just move to using seedboxes or VPNs because of this.

• andyana 14y ago
  While it looks interesting, I have no idea that they do, and their website does not answer that question. Can you explain?
  • mandlar 14y ago
    You rent a server in another country (such as Netherlands) that does the torrenting for you. You then SFTP to your seedbox and download your torrent files from there. All your ISP can see is that you are downloading a lot of bytes, not what the bytes actually are since it is over SFTP.
    • chimeracoder 14y ago
      They can see who you're connecting to, correct? The problem is if they can tell that you're connecting to an IP that they know belongs to a seedbox used for torrenting copyrighted content. It's guilt-by-association, but far more draconian, 1984-esque things have already occurred in this debacle, so it wouldn't surprise me.
      • mandlar 14y ago
        Sure, but it's not illegal to own a seedbox or private server... For all they know, you're seeding/downloading legal torrents.
      • wmf 14y ago
        MarkMonitor can only see if you're connecting to them (e.g. via BitTorrent). They don't see any of your other traffic.
• wpietri 14y ago
  Some will. But that's advanced enough that most people just won't bother. Most people pirate stuff because it's easy. If it's not easy, they'll just shift to paying for things. Me, I would just have made purchasing of content much easier, but I suppose if you're in Hollywood it somehow seems sensible to just make everything in the world harder instead.