cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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What exactly is a seedbox and how much is it?

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Is it advisable to have a VPN though to access the seedbox though?

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Shouldn’t need one if you trust your seedbox provider to not log. And even if you don’t trust them you’d need to find a VPN to trust more and they’re almost all super sketchy.

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That sounds great!
Which Seedbox Service do you recommend?

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Look up real-debrid with Stremio if you wanna skip the download part. It’s like renting someone elses seedbox.

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It’s basically a web based software that handles the download of torrents for you and then offers a download link for you to get it on your machine

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Wait, aren’t seed boxes just VMs that run on the infrastructure of some internet hoster that doesn’t give a crap about the users utilizing it for torrenting? But AFAIK on most seed boxes the user needs to configure the VMs themselves to some degree. So it acts as some beefed up proxy server to torrent stuff without you compromising your own ip address + you have access to high bandwidths and some tb of storage to store your downloaded stuff

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It depends, you can rent an already set-up server/VM just for torrenting and related purposes, but of course nothing prevents you from setting it up in any VM wherever you rent. Just know that some providers that don’t explicitly offer a seedbox for purposes of unknown legality will not appreciate it and may terminate the lease.

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Well, more precisely it’s a piece of hardware, and it remotely manages torrenting whatever you want, and then you can securely download it wherever you are using the software part

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