Seedbox Networks - who do they benefit?

• A discussion on File Sharing on The Technology Muse

I often see the suggestion that the use of a Seedbox being a safer alternative to downloading from P2P networks, but who does a seedbox benefit?

If you have a lot of illegally downloaded material and you want to "stick it" to the music and movie industry and distribute it to all and sundry, then setting up a seedbox may work for you.

If you are looking for a detection-free way of downloading the latest movies and music it is unlikely you are going to find the material that you are looking for on a privately operated seedbox.
If you have an archive of downloaded media and you are looking for that obscure episode of a TV program or the latest Hollywood blockbuster it is more likely that you will find it on a publicly torrented P2P network.

If you subscribe to a hosted seedbox you will have to pay a monthly fee and be restricted to fixed bandwidth and other limitations.
While these limitations may seem far laxer than those imposed by P2P activity and/or the throttling, bandwidth or other traffic shaping applied by your ISP they are there all the same.
Seeing as the selection of things that you want to download will be far less, this will not be an issue.