• MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Even if you do pay them anonymously, your IP will be recorded when you access/download from them. Case in point: Mullvad was forced to shut off port-forwarding because of torrent traffic on their network. Mullvad allows you to pay with Monero.

    Don’t do it for the privacy, do it because having the server in a different country like the Netherlands makes it easier to pirate. For all they know, you’re just accessing random IPs in the Netherlands and all they see is HTTPS traffic.

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      7 months ago

      IP alone isnt enough to convict someone in the states though. Since it only points to the local network and not the person on the network it could be anyone on that network. It was the issue the RIAA ran into when trying to take music downloaders to court.

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      7 months ago

      That’s the thing, you’d have to connect to the seedbox via VPN anyways.

      I’m using usenet anyway, always have, always will ;⁠-⁠)