I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
I&#x27;ve been using a Seedbox since December 2014.<p>Best 15$&#x2F;month I pay. You can even pay with Bitcoin, tho I just use PayPal.<p>2 TB of storage, very fast speed with caching (i.e. some torrents finish immediately if someone else has it downloaded). An uncached Blu-ray ~4 GB movie gets finished in 15-30 mins.<p>They also have auto-delete feature. If they get a legal complaint they just delete the offending torrent and keep my account the same, no &quot;strikes&quot; or anything like that.<p>I then download the actual content either from FTP or HTTPS. If its a movie, I just download the single .mp4 file from the portal itself (and skip the subtitle&#x2F;cover files) with HTTPS straight from Chrome, or even stream it directly through VLC! I only use the FTP if there is a large number of files (e.g. series or non-ISO-packaged software).<p>They have servers in US, Netherlands and Singapore. I always use the Netherlands server. I doubt anyone uses the US ones.<p>Even better? I can use the 2 TB for whatever I want, not just for the torrents. That&#x27;s cheaper than most cloud storage plans for just dummy storage without any torrenting features!<p>Only problem I have with torrents are unpopular movies&#x2F;series usually have no seeds, but there is nothing that can be done about that. Only older clients like LimeWire&#x2F;eMule didn&#x27;t have that problem, but those had endless malware issues because the content wasn&#x27;t verified.<p>Pro-tip: Do not download the actual .torrent file. Many websites are setup to redirect you into an endless loop of shady .exe downloads. Always, always just copy the magnet link to your clipboard. This also makes you safe from any network monitoring that checks for .torrent downloads. No one can prove anything if you just copy a magnet link to your clipboard then paste it to a seedbox since they don&#x27;t&#x2F;can&#x27;t monitor clipboards. Just browsing the page which has the link is perfectly file and doesn&#x27;t prove intent, vs actually downloading a .torrent file.<p>VPNs in comparison are quite dodgy. They have slower speeds, no torrent-caching, its possible (and happens more than it should) that the software has a bad config and skips the VPN and uses your actual connection.<p>Also, I can never trust that the VPN company won&#x27;t share my details if they get a legal request, specially when most of them are in the US.<p>VPNs are useful for bypassing censored networks in a university campus or corporate network, but for torrenting they&#x27;re infinitely inferior to seedboxes.