Re:Why You Should Start Using a VPN
by icebraining on Thursday September 06, 2012 @07:39AM
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It certainly doesn't make you safe, but if the threat is a fishing expedition trying to get a few hundred or thousand Torrenters, the fact that they'd need a court order from a different country/jurisdiction might be enough to get them to leave you alone.
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Re:Why You Should Start Using a VPN
by w1ntermute on Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:30AM
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And a seedbox would work just as well for this purpose, and will result in much higher upload/download speeds and, in the case of private trackers, save you the costs of owning/running a PC on 24/7 to seed back your downloads.
mmm. amazon micro free tier and rtorrent.
Wouldn't Amazon stomp on you pretty quickly for this?
Re:Why You Should Start Using a VPN
by TheAmazingIdiot on Friday September 07, 2012 @03:50PM
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They didn't the last time I did that.
I had some dodgy stuff going on over at an amazon free tier, including; socks proxy, ping tunnel, Metasploit, semi hidden tor end-node, ctorrent, and a few other things. I also linked a 25$ visa card from a convenience store, so very limited traceability.
All they did was bill me for the bandwidth.