I love how they always assume pirates would be buying this shitty content at $3/episode in the absence of piracy. They’d be playing videogames or listening to music or podcasts if this crap wasn’t free.

Afaik, most seedboxes don’t give you full root login, you just get bittorrent and sftp, but if you find a full cloud VPS solution that’s friendly with sailing the seas, you could setup whatever you want.

No, your seedbox is being paid for by you, so unless you’re paying in gold bars or perfectly laundered Monero, they know who you are already and see you pirating and presumably don’t care. A third party like your ISP would only see that A sftp transfer is happening, not what’s in it. The whole enforcement mechanism for torrent piracy is based on you seeding to randos on the internet, which would be totally inapplicable when sftp-ing to yourself.

Anyone using any torrents needs to get them from a source. That source is probably a web page. Any web page offering free shit may well be a honeypot. Given copyright extortion exists, best to use tor, which as per anyone’s best real knowledge can only be resolved by a few state actors at great cost and over time, which they won’t exert to figure out you visited the pirate bay.

There are rumors that YTS.[whatever they are on now] is a honeypot, and I can confirm during outages I have seen IIS with ASP.NET 500 error pages. If you’re not familiar with web dev, this is the setup a Fortune 500 company would have in 2008, not how a modern server run by random piracy bros on the internet would. It’s clearly corporate bros overpaying a contractor to run the site if it’s on Windows stack, especially in 2025.

I would recommend using tor browser, since there are major known honeypots like YIFY out there. I’ve also seen IIS/.NET errors during downtime on watchsomuch just like YIFY, which NO non-corporate entity (or corporate entity founded after 2010) is going to pay a premium for over Linux for, basically guaranteeing it is also a honeypot. Watch yourself out there.

Debian literally used a de-Mozilla’ed fork called Icewesel for like a decade. It’s fine. I never noticed any differences.

Just wait or switch distros. All the security updates they hold hostage for money come eventually. If you’re not a bank or wanted by a major world power, I doubt anyone is going pwn you with a security fix Ubuntu is slow walking to force people into pro. Since they started that shit I don’t put Ubuntu on new hardware, but I’m not going to purge servers I have it on because I’m worried someone’s going to deploy a sub-month old vulnerability against me as a rando doing nothing important.

True, but MIT can’t lock you in a federal prison for 50 lifetimes, and arguably the primary responsibility of the state is to protect private citizens against gangs of other private citizens, be they the Bloods or MIT or Chevron

Remember when the Obama admin made Aaron Schwartz kill himself for ripping some JSTOR articles?

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