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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

What exactly is a seedbox and how much is it?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    It's, in layman's terms, server space you rent out and can use for your downloads. torrent clients like transmission are usually built in. I pay £5 a month for 2tb space and enough bandwidth to keep a good ratio.

    So instead of downloading to my pc, I download torrents to the seedbox (at a blazing fast speed) and then download files from there to my pc whenever I feel like it, again at stupid good speeds.

    I have FTP access, so I've just added it as a folder/mounted drive on my windows and Linux mint file explorers. Works great. Also have it on my smart TV as a web address for quick streaming of whatever I downloaded.

    Edit: this also eliminates the risk of downloading Torrents locally.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That sounds great!
    Which Seedbox Service do you recommend?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    I use seedhost.eu, can't really recommend others as this is my first! But it's been great so far, easy to use and access

    I use transdroid on my mobile for torrent management

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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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