Findmysec

Yes, that's a bit of a problem on the average seedbox. You'd have to modify your torrent to seed on I2P by adding I2P trackers (just a couple of them, nothing much), and then run either BiglyBT or I2PSnark to seed them on I2P. Unfortunately, most seedboxes don't give you root access, neither do they bundle these apps. Qbittorrent doesn't have good support for it yet unfortunately.

If you have an SBC/spare computer at home, would be great if you could attach a hard drive to it, install i2p/i2pd and either of the mentioned torrent clients, and seed from there in the meantime. Qbittorrent has seen community interest in I2P, unfortunately it's just not there yet

The OG I2P program is written in Java, which might show behavior like you mentioned (didn't stop immediately when stopping the service).

Please try I2PD, it's written in C++

I still have one of their ECO boxes but it's not doing much. I haven't torrented anything in the last 2 months I think (didn't find a need to).

Obviously, this doesn't change anything if you're still seeding to the clearnet. All this would do is cross-seed your torrents to the I2P network. I assume you have a suitable torrenting strategy already for the clearnet. If some day you were to abandon the clearnet for I2P, you would no longer need to take the precautions you do now because I2P is inherently private.

Please skim through the documentation for a high-level overview on I2P, and ask here if you don't understand something

Which plan? I used to use them too

Unless there's a zero-day, no. All traffic is encrypted and it should be impossible to correlate traffic chunks to identities like that

I'm assuming your seedbox providers allows you root access to the server? Which provider is this?

Yes, because it's P2P, every node acts as a router and thus distributes bandwidth to prevent congestion

If only people with the resources would seed

It's very easy to set up. Windows now has a slick installer.

The point is that logs are generated and then deleted but companies who do not wish to keep such logs (e.g. IP address of client who connects to the VPN). I2P sure to it's design, doesn't even generate such incriminating logs (it might generate other kinds of logs which is a different discussion).

Thanks

Unfortunately, Qbittorrent's I2P support is still experimental. Assuming your seedbox provider can let you run BiglyBT or any other client that can cross-seed, all you have to do is add I2P trackers to your torrent file. You can also upload your torrent files to Postman on I2P for them to be registered.