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- tropican8, on 07/16/2008, -1/+52"your worries about the RIAA or MPAA spying on you are over. No more DMCA notices or warning letters from your ISP - and more importantly, no lawsuit letters will be coming either."
Depends on how trustworthy the seedbox is. You're banking on them not logging the data and giving it up at the first sign of trouble. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -4/+32TorrentFreak likes to report what 99% of what BitTorrent users already know as some sort "insider" news source. The fact is, most of their readers are just casual users who have no need for 0day or scene sites where the competitiveness takes place and thus no need for a seedbox.
- marx2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+15The idea of buying mp3's was funny when it first came out... now it's just depressing. How did marketing figure out a way to sell compressed music of substantially poorer quality than the original track for almost the same amount of money as the individual track would cost if you could sell one track from a CD? Geniuses!
- SomeImagination, on 07/16/2008, -1/+15Don't buy a seedbox off of any of the websites specified in this article. There all over priced resellers that will take you for a ride. Just get your own vps or dedi server directly from a legit hosting company like ovh, vectoral, keyweb, leaseweb etc (all of which don't care about you using your box for torrents)
- solidus636, on 07/16/2008, -2/+14Rapidshare is a piece of crap.
- NinjaJoey, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12Yeah, too crazy. Any others?
- TH3W1R3D, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12If it was setup at your house it would use your bandwidth. A seedbox doesn't use your bandwidth. RTA.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+12gtfo
- marx2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8I'm sorry, but only 34 of 36 parts of your message came through. Next time, please include a PAR set so I can figure out what you're saying :D
No, really..UseNet is awesome especially with places like GigaNews around. However, lately the updates have been slow and too many movies that I want are in PAL :(
Well, that and the only decent binary reader Linux has is KLibido and it gets on my nerves every time I use it (which is daily) - Rotzooi, on 07/16/2008, -1/+8True, but without a couple thousand seedboxes running 24/7, those casual downloaders would have a much more frustrating torrent experience. It's not only private sites for which seedboxes are used. The large (tv) sites do all their initial seeding via seedboxes.
Plus, seedboxes are perfect for uploading to Usenet as well. - marx2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5You're getting amazingly emotional about uploading.
- jakash, on 07/16/2008, -4/+9This is good advice, seedboxes on the whole are better for bittorrent - the more seedboxes, the more, faster seeding. However, a few things are exaggerated in the article, for example, a seedbox isn't really "essential for account longevity" on private trackers unless you really have your sights set on climbing the hierarchy on a particular site. Most good private trackers don't leave slower uploaders completely in the dark, for example they create 'free' torrents, where the download doesn't count, or like Demonoid, where there are so many users that there is almost always someone to seed to. Also, like deluzion mentioned, seedboxes are still a bit on the expensive side, and seem like a lot of money to spend to do something which most people can do at home.
- xtrench, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6gtfo of digg.
- Sillywombat, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Seems a bit fishy.
HTML control? I would rather stay away from this little trouble maker.
Plus, i find torrent clients these days do their job fantastically. I have a high speed broadband connection and sometimes (to my amasement every time) manage to hit about 900KB/s - 1MB/s. - s0nicfreak, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Anyone used wewillhostit.com? I'm considering it...
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3@reformation: The pirating is the markets reaction to overinflated pricing on music.
They put out crap and expect people to spend $15-$20 a cd. Pirating has finally started bringing prices down to the $10 range. Still needs improvement.
The day CD's sell for $5, I'll be buying. Till then...I'll help the market show the record companies that I'm not here to make them all multi-billionaires - being a regular millionaire should be just fine.
P.S. I own lots of CD's of music I ACTUALLY like. Downloading them first help me find out that i did like them. - palmy523, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3As far as my downloads go they may take a while and the download rate may only be about 100 KB/s, but it's not like my downloads are NEEDED right away, you can let your computer sit over night and the file will be ready by the morning, but of course I am not trying to download 20 gigs of files at one time.
As long as you don't have a download going constantly your share ratio will be fine without a seedbox. - aladrin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3The reasonable people are all being buried, it appears.
My line is about half the speed of yours, and has pitiful upload, but I have no trouble getting to 1:1 ratio on torrents. Even the private tracker I joined wasn't a problem... And I had the 25GB requirement for special features within a week.
To bother with a seedbox, you have to be crazy about uploading. - SomeImagination, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Tunneling your torrent traffic has nothing to do with seedboxes
- Shadow503, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Can you shout me a link to your service?
- SuperCujo, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2PAL is better. NTSC really bites.
Totally subjective statement I know, but whenever I watch NTSC everything is Not The Same Colour. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Usenet is so annoying and confusing, its like something out of the 90's.
- SomeImagination, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I'm not really in a position to hit and run because thats against the rules of the majority of private sites regardless of ratio. The advantage of having a massive buffer is that I can download massive high definition movie packs (100GB+) and not have to worry about seeding them back on my crappy adsl connection which is only 50KB/s upload. Hitting and running is when you stop a torrent right after it finishes. If you download something and leave it seeding for say 72 hrs after you complete it, even if you don't upload anything it won't be classed as a hit and run.
- DesertTripper, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, what's the deal? In the 80s you used to get a beautiful album with high-quality art, a (usually nice) sleeve, and often a lot of extras, for around $7.99 (and even that was expensive for a teenager, of course!)
Now, you get a CD in a crappy jewel case with scaled-down crappy art for twice as much.
No wonder P2P has been so popular in recent years... - marx2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2DesertTripper: Right, but what do you get when you purchase mp3s? Hell, I'd opt for the CD in a crappy jewel case. At least that comes with a little booklet or something.
- championchap, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3What really bugs me about Demonoid is that there is actually as much incentive to upload on there as there is on the pirate bay.
You never get booted off for a bad ratio.
Didn't used to be the case, those were the days.
Didnt used to be half the ads that are on there now either! (i know i know, and i DO use adblock plus) - igyigyigy, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2AND they sold my email address to spammers.
Unless someone randomly guessed the address demonid.com@... - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1I'm not saying seedboxes shouldn't exist, of course big sites need them. I'm saying the average user doesn't need them in the context TorrentFreak is presenting it, i.e. paying monthly fees to rent one for personal use.
- merdiesel, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Why don't you and cliffski get it over with and blow each other already...
- TH3W1R3D, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3This sounds awesome but is currently too pricey. I'm hoping this gets popular so we have more competition, lower prices, and more options.
- Melancholiatic, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2Shhhhh.
Rules one and two of usenet. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4...alternatively just spend a few quid each month (ie.£5-10) and get a premium usenet account and to hell with all this torrent nonsense. Oh sheesh.. I forgot, it's supposed to be secret!
- SomeImagination, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2Well yeah no *****? It not hard to install rtorrent and proftpd on Debian. Theres no reason you should pay some guy to install a couple of programs for you.
And whats the point in renting a "decent" (expensive) vps/server for a seedbox? Its not like QoS, uptime etc is mission critical... its a seedbox not a corporate web server.
All you need for a decent seedbox is a cheap unmetered 100mbit VPS (usually < £10) and a Linux dist such as Debian. Don't pay for crap you can do yourself, thats why these "seedbox resellers" suck. - merdiesel, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Man, you're so cool.
- TH3W1R3D, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1No. Poorly said.
- cliffski, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2tough *****. if you dont wanna get caught, dont steal.
- SomeImagination, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2Hmm dunno where you got "hundred(s) of dollars" from. Personally I rented an unmetered 100mbit (shared line) for one month for £9 and gave myself a 4TB buffer. Now I can download pretty much anything any time and not worry about my ratio.
- Drewnami, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3I'll second those "*****" statements if and only if you really didn't pirate Crysis.
- marx2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1SuperCujo: Maybe... but I'm not about to go to Europe and bring back a PAL TV :)
- flyzzx, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Yes it wasn't me, but one of the seedbox's users.
- flyzzx, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2It's the fake trackers and spy peers that you really have to watch out for when using BT.
I run a BT seedbox on a UK server. All was going well until my ISP forwarded this email to me not long ago,
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Entertainment Software Association
575 7th Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004 USA
Attention: Intellectual Property Enforcement
Telephone: 202-223-2400
E-mail: mailto:esa@copyright-compliance.com?subject=RE%3A%20Notice%20ID%3A%20xxx%2Dxxxxxxxx%20ESA%20Foreign%20Notice
22 Jun 2008 10:37:05 GMT
ISP: (The ISP)
ESA Reference Number: xxx-xxxxxxxx
IP Address: x.x.x.x
Date of Infringement: 22 Jun 2008 10:37:05 GMT
Dear (The ISP):
The Entertainment Software Association ("ESA") is a U.S. trade association that represents the intellectual property interests of numerous companies that publish interactive games for video game consoles, personal computers, ... etc.
Based on the information at its disposal on 22 Jun 2008 10:37:05 GMT, ESA has a good faith belief that the subscriber using the IP address x.x.x.xis infringing the copyright rights of one or more ESA members by copying and distributing unauthorized copies of game products (through peer-to-peer or similar software/services), in violation of applicable copyright laws, through internet access that (The ISP) provides directly to the x.x.x.x or through a downstream provider that purchases this access for x.x.x.x. The copyrighted works that have been infringed include but are not limited to:
Title: Crysis
Infringement Source: BitTorrent
Infringement Timestamp: 22 Jun 2008 10:37:05 GMT
Infringement Last Documented: 22 Jun 2008 10:37:05 GMT
Infringer Username:
Infringing Filename: Crysis.EA.rus_[tfile.ru]
Infringing Filesize: 5327344807
Infringer IP Address: x.x.x.x
Infringer DNS Name:
Infringing URL: http://bt.tfile.ru:8080/announce.php?uk=88bk8Ze7VL ...
The unauthorized copies of game product are listed and/or identified thereon by their titles or variations thereof, game-related listings/references/descriptions, or depictions of game-related artwork. Such copies, titles, game-related listings/references/descriptions, depictions, and material that is the subject of infringing activities are hereinafter referred to as "Infringing Material".
Given this infringing activity by x.x.x.x, the ESA urges (The ISP) to cooperate with its efforts to protect the intellectual property rights of its members companies and immediately do the following:
1. Notify the account holder of the Infringing Material.
2. Remove, or disable access to, the Infringing Material detailed above.
3. Take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms
of Service Agreement, including termination of a repeat offender.
Please inform us whether you will remove or disable access to the Infringing Material as requested. (The ISP) or the account holder may contact ESA at the above-listed contact details, with email preferred. Please include the above-noted Reference Number in the subject line of all email correspondence.
Thank you for your cooperation and prompt response in this matter.
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***** the EA.
***** the ESA.
***** the RIAA.
***** the MPAA. - nutsackninja, on 07/17/2008, -1/+1Didn't say it was. Just another option out there.
- zemon100, on 05/25/2009, -0/+0For the last month I have been using http://www.dediseedbox.com
The speeds and support are excellent I have $10 month plan and last month I uploaded 4 tb, I also prefer to use the utorrent interface which alot of providers dont use. - joglaze, on 06/16/2009, -0/+0Stay away from dediseedbox.com. This guy is a real winner. Things went pretty well for the first month I had the box, but on the last day of the month, it died. I kept trying to find out what was going on via email, but no answer. Since I had already paid for the second month four days before, I just kept filing tickets and waiting for a response. It took a while to figure out that I’d been scammed.
Go out to the homepage, http://www.dediseedbox.com. Check out their shared plans. I have plan 2. Notice that there are “-2″ available. That means they sold something they didn’t have. I filed a complaint with Paypal but unless it’s an eBay transaction, they could really care less. However, after I filed it, the box came up at 10am on Mon but was gone again by 10pm. Nothing since. Can someone explain to me how you have “-2″ available?
Save your money and find a reliable provider. This guy isn’t one of them. - jtgoodgame, on 10/27/2009, -0/+0Be sure to get the best deal when looking for a seedbox. Utorrent web ui is the best interface.
http://www.squidoo.com/speedtorrents -
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