Seeder for private torrent tracker (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This year I‘ll be able to upgrade to 25/25Gbps and I‘m planning on using at least 20Gbps for seeding 24/7. Is any maintainer of private trackers interested in inviting me?

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[-] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In Switzerland, the ISP Init7 is offering all their connections for CHF 777.- (USD 861.-) per year and you just get the maximum speed, which is currently 25/25Gbps. This provider is well known for fighting for net neutrality and being against any censorships or mass surveillance. I just love them very much and wish that other countries would have such awesome ISP‘s as well.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

You're paying $50 USD less per month for that than I'm paying for 800/12Mbps from Comcast.

[-] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Be carefull, the ISP may be well-meaning to torrenting, however that doesnt change that technically, uploading unlicensed content is not legal in switzerland.

As well as breaking other laws (by downloading/spreading extremist content for example) can get you in trouble still.

*Apparently it seems that in switzerland Games for example are in a different legal category from a Movie and such and are technically also illegal to upload. Though I dont really think rhant a private person just suddenly gets into major trouble because of this.

[-] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the heads up. I am well aware of this. Obviously I would try not to get too much attention and would probably block all Swiss clients from accessing my server. Having legal issues internationally at that scale without any money involved is unlikely. But that‘s just my hypothesis.

Edit: only because I‘m a pirate does not mean I have no moral values. I would never want to distribute heavily illegal content. Only copyrighted content.

[-] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm I wonder if that even makes a difference, uploading content to other swiss people or uploading content to someone from, say italy.

[-] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Don‘t forget that the copyright law is a civil law, so there needs to be someone being able to proof to have suffered from any damages. Having a law case within a border is usually much cheaper to having one internationally, because every country has a different law system and you need a lot more lawyers, just to then find out there was no damage. So the risk of paying a lot of law fees without getting any damages covered is just too high. Obviously, it makes sense that big studios will try to hunt down big trackers, but I think even with my 25/25Gbit I am far away of being an interesting target, especially on an international level. At least this is how my view on this is.

[-] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

777 CHF per month?

[-] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Sorry, forgot to mention the period. It is per year.

[-] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you. This is a very reasonable price for the bandwidth

[-] SmokeFree@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Seems like they are using CGNAT, which means you won't be able to connect to some peers who are also not connectable due to both closed ports. One must open their port to establish connections.

They can surely remove you from CGNAT but for extra cost. I think paying for seedbox is much cheaper.