A VPN service would have no way of knowing the box you are connecting to is a seed box. Particularly if you connect over a different IP than you seed from.
Piracy is a local tort at worst, and not a crime. Certainly not something that can compel mandatory IP disclosure from multiple foreign entities at the same time for a US copyright claimant targeting an individual.
Even then if access to said seedbox is shared with multiple people they would need to prove who actually executed the choice to seed which files. Now you need a court order to get the FBI to travel to another country to use a hotplug device to seize the entire machine with memory in tact and do forensics.
If you do not do any logging then only recent files could be claimed if at all.
That much work to prosecute someone over their two most recently downloaded movies at worst? Never going to happen, and it never has.
There are exactly 0 cases of foreign seedboxes being seized over copyright claims.
I am not a lawyer and do not currently operate any seedboxes so take this as you choose.
Interesting points indeed. Connecting through a VPN may be enough for the this case. I guess I mostly wanted to make it clear that it's not "perfectly anonymous" just because one paid with bitcoins. And of course that if you connect directly to the seedbox, then you trust 100% this seedbox to be legit.
Piracy is a local tort at worst, and not a crime. Certainly not something that can compel mandatory IP disclosure from multiple foreign entities at the same time for a US copyright claimant targeting an individual.
Even then if access to said seedbox is shared with multiple people they would need to prove who actually executed the choice to seed which files. Now you need a court order to get the FBI to travel to another country to use a hotplug device to seize the entire machine with memory in tact and do forensics.
If you do not do any logging then only recent files could be claimed if at all.
That much work to prosecute someone over their two most recently downloaded movies at worst? Never going to happen, and it never has.
There are exactly 0 cases of foreign seedboxes being seized over copyright claims.
I am not a lawyer and do not currently operate any seedboxes so take this as you choose.