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Is Stremio a honeypot? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I felt bad leaching too but another addon fixed that

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which addon is that, if you don't mind sharing?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'll message you. Also, subscription but very reasonably priced.

[–] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can I also be a party to the add-on you’re referencing?

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They're talking about Real Debrid, which is a subscription service allowing access to hosters and easy conversion of torrents to direct streams. It's really cheap and absolutely worth the money IMO, but RD doesn't seed torrents. Distributing content in that manner would get them in heaps of legal trouble.

I guess it does somewhat solve the problem of leeching, as if anyone has streamed a torrent via RD in the past 30 days you'll just load their cached copy, but I was perhaps naïvely hoping for an actual addon (RD is not an addon but rather can be configured through Torrentio) that somehow seeded torrents I stream.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

was perhaps naïvely hoping for an actual addon

Sorry for misleading.

[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

I would love to self host a real debrid service where i can control what i pre-download using the "my library" feature, something similar to the *arr suite but only using the stremio interface.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

Not at all, I just misread your comment!

[–] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

ah yes. I use premiumize+torrentio.