On: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

[w1ntermute]

I remember reading that OVH is very popular in the Scene[0], for running topsites and the like. The reliability and bandwidth must be pretty good for them to be used by the Scene.

0:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

[aes256 → w1ntermute]

OVH are most certainly not popular with the scene!

That said, OVH is extremely popular with those involved in piracy more broadly, and their servers are used extensively as seedboxes.

[w1ntermute → aes256]

My bad, maybe I got the popular seedbox hosts confused with the popular topsite hosts. For some reason, I seem to remember OVH being mentioned in a scene notice. It might've been when they busted a topsite for leaking releases to a seedbox used by a private torrent site uploader.

[aes256 → w1ntermute]

Yep, if OVH were referred to it would only have been in a negative context, e.g. outing a P2L (Pay to Leech) site or someone seeding files to torrent trackers.