I used a seedbox some time ago to download a specific big torrent (at the time). I payed using Paypal, as I don’t consider seedboxes a low-hanging-fruit for rightsholders to persecute at the moment.
There’s too much redundant data on these services, so if they takedown one user’s data, there’s still lots of the same torrented data on other user’s. I don’t think rightsholders are willing to play wack-a-mole for such infractions.
They’d rather invest their resources on more centralized file sharing, such as big public torrent sites and cyberlockers.
Whatbox (and a few other seedbox companies) offer seedboxes in the US. How can they do that without being immediately shut down? Do they have some kind of restrictions that could cause problems with using a US-hosted seedbox?
AFAIK they do honor DMCA removal requests so if you happen to load a public torrent there & receive a notice Whatbox staff will ask you to delete that data. You could contact their support on that if you’re not sure on their procedure.
How safe is paying via your real payment details?
I’ve only used crypto for those things. But presumably if you find a pre-paid credit card they accept you could buy it with cash & then pay the seedbox provider with that.
How safe is connecting via your real IP
The seedbox service itself is essentially a VPN so you either trust it, or you don’t. You could just as well ask how safe is it to connect to your VPN, or if you need to use another VPN to connect to your VPN :P
One thing to keep in mind is that seedbox services probably do log more data than the typical no-log VPN.
That’s not the total subscriber count. Sounds like you’re viewing the subscriber count from your specific instance at lemmy.sdf.org - The 3 subs you mention are subs from users at lemmy.sdf.org specifically.
To see the total subscriber count you’d have to view the communities home instance directly e.g.
I unfortunately, do not have an answer for you but curious what issues you have with crypto. I am an old fart who does not sail the seas as much as I used to and do not do any sort of crypto or even considered it.
There is already a lifetime’s worth of debate over crypto, and I don’t really feel a need to add to it in this thread. Any point I could make has already been written thousands of times, in a much better way. Some of my big problems with it include environmental impact, the amount of scamming done with it, the lack of useful applications for it besides the aforementioned paying for illegal things, etc.
Thanks for your response. Other than the environmental impact, I honestly do not know anything about the debate over crypto. I will just have to look into it now since I a curious.
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