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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (www.techspot.com)

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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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[-] BeefAndPoultry@lemmus.org 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There are other ways investigators could have connected activity to Ono. He may have used Nyaa without a VPN while logged into an account. Data from website cookies or content-delivery-network logs could also have been matched with Nyaa activity and tracker records. CODA has not said whether any of those methods were used.

VPN isn't enough, you gotta worry about fingerprinting and cookies too. Recently it was revealed that Windows 11 has strong fingerprinting options that could be used to track you.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

I wonder if they were using a VPN or seedbox. You could even do remote desktop into seedbox and browse the sites from there.

[-] yes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago

Was always wondering... what is the best way to get access to a seedbox that is not linked to you through a financial trail?

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Some seedbox services seem to accept cryptocurrency, although if they don't accept an anonymous one like Monero then you'll need to do some extra steps to remove the ability to trace the transactions. They may use a third party crypto payment service that will try to ID you so that's another potential hurdle (after some googling I found a seedbox service that's using bitpay, and bitpay has hassled me for using a VPN before). Possibly there's a wider range of options with VPS providers.

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