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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

by 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.