> The servers themselves are also often located in piracy friendly jurisdictions (the Netherlands used to be common, not sure what’s current).
Definitely not piracy friendly jurisdictions most of the time, most are located in Netherlands (most popular), Germany, Canada, United States, Finland and France.
> I used to spend some time in the space and I can’t recall a seed box provider ever getting raided.
Most seedbox providers don't officially allow piracy and don't promote piracy and will listen to valid legal requests, they're safe, you aren't. If they get in legal trouble that involves you, they will totally throw you under the bus to save themselves.
A lot of seedbox providers also don't allow public trackers because that attracts legal notices.
> It’s also a huge pain in the ass for law enforcement because it becomes international quickly. You’re in country X, the server with its IP in the swarm is in country Y, and the company that has the rental agreement with the data center for the server is in country Z.
Actually, it really isn't.
They just don't care as long as the providers stay legal (example: Whatbox (Incorporated in Canada, servers in NL and US) and RapidSeedbox (Incorporated in Hong Kong, servers in NL) started forwarding the legal notices to their users to avoid issues, Ultra.cc (Incorporated in Singapore, servers in NL, CA and Singapore) and Hostingbydesign (Incorporated in Denmark, servers in NL and DE) blocked some trackers to avoid issues)
It's when you stop following the law that you get into trouble, like Hostingbydesign's owner who ran another seedbox provider and got arrested, sentenced and fined when he knew about the piracy and ignored it.
Definitely not piracy friendly jurisdictions most of the time, most are located in Netherlands (most popular), Germany, Canada, United States, Finland and France.
> I used to spend some time in the space and I can’t recall a seed box provider ever getting raided.
Most seedbox providers don't officially allow piracy and don't promote piracy and will listen to valid legal requests, they're safe, you aren't. If they get in legal trouble that involves you, they will totally throw you under the bus to save themselves.
A lot of seedbox providers also don't allow public trackers because that attracts legal notices.
> It’s also a huge pain in the ass for law enforcement because it becomes international quickly. You’re in country X, the server with its IP in the swarm is in country Y, and the company that has the rental agreement with the data center for the server is in country Z.
Actually, it really isn't.
They just don't care as long as the providers stay legal (example: Whatbox (Incorporated in Canada, servers in NL and US) and RapidSeedbox (Incorporated in Hong Kong, servers in NL) started forwarding the legal notices to their users to avoid issues, Ultra.cc (Incorporated in Singapore, servers in NL, CA and Singapore) and Hostingbydesign (Incorporated in Denmark, servers in NL and DE) blocked some trackers to avoid issues)
It's when you stop following the law that you get into trouble, like Hostingbydesign's owner who ran another seedbox provider and got arrested, sentenced and fined when he knew about the piracy and ignored it.