So I am moving to Germany and since they are pretty rough on their piracy laws (even though I’ve not had a leak in ten years) I don’t feel the old VPN/killswitch/public tracker thing is going to keep me safe enough.
So I’ve been looking into seedboxes and am interested in ultra.cc but still using VPN and FileZilla for downloading. I read up on their allowance of public trackers, but if they receive a DMCA notice they can send it to you or delete your account.
So I ask, for those that use seedboxes how do you get by with public trackers? All I really care about is downloading games (FitGirl)… I am accepted to 1 private tracker but they have no games and am struggling…
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Gluetun and Deluge/qBittorrent using docker networking never failed me.
(even though I’ve not had a leak in ten years) I don’t feel the old VPN/killswitch/public tracker thing is going to keep me safe enough.
Yes it’s gonna keep you safe if you make sure to bind your VPN to your torrent client. It’s safer than a kill switch.
I have good experiences with torbox, they have a webdav server you can use to transfer your downloaded files to your PC. Their most premium tier also gives you access to usenet, if that’s of any interest for you.
I haven’t had any issues with public trackers on ultra.cc. I probably download about 100 or so public torrents a month, but that’s not new release stuff that’s likely to get a DMCA notice.
The VPN killswitch is not safe for bittorrent, it doesn’t work fast enough. Binding the torrent client to the VPN interface is safe though.
Does the VPN/killswitch even really matter when your torrent client is in a seedbox I’m not sure. I was under the impression it wasn’t even possible in this case
No, you don’t need a VPN if you’re using a seedbox.
