Even if you do pay them anonymously, your IP will be recorded when you access/download from them. Case in point: Mullvad was forced to shut off port-forwarding because of torrent traffic on their network. Mullvad allows you to pay with Monero.

Don't do it for the privacy, do it because having the server in a different country like the Netherlands makes it easier to pirate. For all they know, you're just accessing random IPs in the Netherlands and all they see is HTTPS traffic.

[–] spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IP alone isnt enough to convict someone in the states though. Since it only points to the local network and not the person on the network it could be anyone on that network. It was the issue the RIAA ran into when trying to take music downloaders to court.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

How about Denmark?

[–] myofficialaccount@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the thing, you'd have to connect to the seedbox via VPN anyways.

I'm using usenet anyway, always have, always will ;⁠-⁠)

[–] Buck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you find good things on Usenet now? So much of it is uploaded encrypted

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what the indexer is for, no? Gives you the keys and a map.

[–] Buck@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What indexer?

[–] myofficialaccount@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/ for starters

[–] Buck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Most of the good ones are either invite only or pay for, and even then you'll only get access to some of the keys needed.

None of the free ones provide keys as far as I've been able to find.

It seems rather messy and convoluted compared to how usenet used to be.