Which VPN do you use?

[megabyteme]

How secure is FTP (I'm assuming SSH would be used with it)? If I were to rent a seedbox, then grab the files, what would Concast see? I've got some trustworthy real world friends who would enjoy grabbing an occasional file from me, but setting up any kind of blind-to-the-ISP system would be overkill for them.

BIG question here, what can, and cannot, be seen as pirated material by the now spying ISPs?...

[A]

If you plan to use linux home, one word: Kubuntu (or openSUSE KDE version)

How secure is FTP (I'm assuming SSH would be used with it)? If I were to rent a seedbox, then grab the files, what would Concast see? I've got some trustworthy real world friends who would enjoy grabbing an occasional file from me, but setting up any kind of blind-to-the-ISP system would be overkill for them.

FTP is not secure. sFTP is. SSH is another way to access the remote server securely (alternative to insecure telnet).

BIG question here, what can, and cannot, be seen as pirated material by the now spying ISPs?...

http/ftp: ISP sees everying going through the pipe.
https/sftp/ssh: ISP only sees the headers (like where you connect to. eg: If you connect to google.com via https, ISP only knows you connected to google.com, they know sqaut what data was transferred).

bittorrent from seedbox. sFTP it back home. Thats the way to do it. oh, and encrypt your HDD with truecrypt with AES 256.

[IdolEyes787]

How secure is FTP (I'm assuming SSH would be used with it)? If I were to rent a seedbox, then grab the files, what would Concast see? I've got some trustworthy real world friends who would enjoy grabbing an occasional file from me, but setting up any kind of blind-to-the-ISP system would be overkill for them.

BIG question here, what can, and cannot, be seen as pirated material by the now spying ISPs?...

Wouldn't it just be a lot easier in the end to simply move to Candidia?

I could probably get you a job at Tim Horton's.

[Artemis]

OK I will break it down more simply for you Meg. If you rent a server, either a VPS or a dedicated server it will come preconfigured with an operating system that you can remotely access and you will be given the details to login and access it, otherwise it would be somewhat useless. But that is it, just the O/S, usually a shell if it is a Linux distro, no GUI or anything fancy, you telnet in and configure the server via the command line. I did this for a job for years so it isn't quite so scary.
From there you can turn the server into whatever kind of server you want, my first suggestion was to hire a relatively small one and install OpenVPN to configure as a VPN tunnel, but the other option now being discussed is to go the seedbox route. For this you hire a bigger server (in terms of bandwidth and power of the server) and configure the server with your bt client (usually utorrent in a wine container or a native Linux torrent client, but but an older version of utorrent would be best for you). From there you download the files from the server to your home via secure ftp which is a protocol the ISP's are scanning far less for, and throttling less, because it used now for legitimate downloads far more.
To get a decent seedbox configuration will mean moving from a VPS (probably) to a dedicated server, in order to increase bandwidth, which will increase costs, so you need to look at your priorities?
Both options, a VPN and a seedbox protect your I.P. address from being the start address for a bt transaction, for the simple reason that the I.P. address will be that of a rented server overseas, or as I stated earlier there are the VPN services too, if you feel I am making your head explode like I did Mr Barker Lounger in the other thread. iPredator and StrongVPN can also do the job for you at a price.

[OlegL]

How is it possible for a "virtual private network" to be private if it exists on the public network, which is the internet?

[megabyteme]

OK I will break it down more simply for you Meg. If you rent a server, either a VPS or a dedicated server it will come preconfigured with an operating system that you can remotely access and you will be given the details to login and access it, otherwise it would be somewhat useless. But that is it, just the O/S, usually a shell if it is a Linux distro, no GUI or anything fancy, you telnet in and configure the server via the command line. I did this for a job for years so it isn't quite so scary.
From there you can turn the server into whatever kind of server you want, my first suggestion was to hire a relatively small one and install OpenVPN to configure as a VPN tunnel, but the other option now being discussed is to go the seedbox route. For this you hire a bigger server (in terms of bandwidth and power of the server) and configure the server with your bt client (usually utorrent in a wine container or a native Linux torrent client, but but an older version of utorrent would be best for you). From there you download the files from the server to your home via secure ftp which is a protocol the ISP's are scanning far less for, and throttling less, because it used now for legitimate downloads far more.
To get a decent seedbox configuration will mean moving from a VPS (probably) to a dedicated server, in order to increase bandwidth, which will increase costs, so you need to look at your priorities?
Both options, a VPN and a seedbox protect your I.P. address from being the start address for a bt transaction, for the simple reason that the I.P. address will be that of a rented server overseas, or as I stated earlier there are the VPN services too, if you feel I am making your head explode like I did Mr Barker Lounger in the other thread. iPredator and StrongVPN can also do the job for you at a price.

I actually followed quite a bit of that, and feel I'm on decent grounds to move ahead. I'll continue to look into the various options, and lay low with my downloading until we see what the Coalition for Anti-Privacy does to the unsuspecting in the coming month, or so...

Again, a HUGE thank you to everyone pointing me in the right direction!

[A]

How is it possible for a "virtual private network" to be private if it exists on the public network, which is the internet?

Encryption magic.

[megabyteme]

Wouldn't it just be a lot easier in the end to simply move to Candidia?

I could probably get you a job at Tim Horton's.

I appreciate the offer, but I had an "incident" there a few years back. Court orders prevent me from giving details, but it involved stale doughnuts, 3 AM, and lots of blood.

[mjmacky]

I did this for a job for years so it isn't quite so scary.

No matter how I read it, it screams an admission of ineptitude. What have your doctors done to you with their chicken scratch?

[cola]

a VPS with 512megs will easily run openvpn and deluge, if you're wanting to combine both VPN and seedboxes. Although, I know some seedbox providers will also allow you to SSH into your account and use it as a proxy too.