Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

  • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Ok… I like the interface of StremIO, which looks like a service aggregator (ie I can open the movie on a streaming service i have access to), but I don’t like the fact that I can’t pre-download and seed less popular files. It supports debrid services, but from the technical description, thesec seems to be leech-equivalent to seedboxes…

    What would be a good drop -in replacement? Something that works on google TVs and is easy to maintain?

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      11 months ago

      If you use a debrid service, you’re okay because the debrid service just downloads the file once and caches it for everyone, and you pay for the bandwidth to download from them. That isn’t excessive leeching, whether they seed or not.

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        11 months ago

        From my early torrent days, we used to say that any torrent we dont seed back to at rast 1:1 is bad for the network (leeching). I can see why there is a desire to block StremIO clients, but if it was modified to see back to some ratio, it would be nicer.

        As for debrid, it’s a bit too “centralised” for me still… I’ve read that it’s a major weak point in the system and that servers are often unavailable. That’s why i like the resilience of torrents. (Plus the sharing aspect. Sharing is caring!)

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      11 months ago

      I’ve heard there are (more expensive) debris services that seed back, but I haven’t researched it. I’d already paid for Real Debrid when I read that and it hasn’t come up for renewal yet.

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          Here’s what it’s showing me:
          $3.26 for 15 days.
          $4.35 for 30 days.
          $9.79 for 90 days.
          $17.40 for 180 days.

          I did the 90 days to try it out for $10.
          3 days of “playing around with it”.
          Day 4 it was linked to StremIO on my Chromecast.
          Day 5 it was linked to my NAS through rclone.