Is Stremio a honeypot?
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.
I stopped using it because I figured if everyone did this and stopped sharing torrents, neither would work
It's kinda selfish
I read a comment somewhere that Stremio uploads like a normal client. Just a comment oc, but it should be easy to check for a network savvy reader. It may be that the plugin does it, dunno.
Pretty sure I remember that too, but believe there was some caveat like it only uploads when watching, making made it 'more give less take' on average
Still better than leeches IMO
I have a network monitor on my Shield TV all the time and I remember when I first tried it with Torrentio I could see my upload monitor having activity.
It does when you're watching. I have sys monitor widgets with rainmeter on my PC and whenever I'm watching something, it cpu is at least 5 or so degrees hotter and there's 5 mb + network activity on the upload. You can check yourself on system monitor.
I felt bad leaching too but another addon fixed that
Which addon is that, if you don't mind sharing?
I'll message you. Also, subscription but very reasonably priced.
Can you let me know, as well?
https://lemmy.ca/comment/9367375
Can I also be a party to the add-on you’re referencing?
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.
Sorry for misleading.
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.
Not at all, I just misread your comment!
ah yes. I use premiumize+torrentio.
The LARPers on c/Piracy are finally taking a break from shouting 'high seas' and discovering the tragedy of the commons!
The so-called "tragedy of the commons" is an invention out of nowhere by a white supremacist
A great read. Thanks!
We're talking about P2P networks bro, not land management. Pouncing on the term like a bot would, simply to post that link, is just sloppy.
It's a commons, it's the same principle
Maybe using the term was sloppy also?
It can be a reductive approach if you look at the world exclusively through those glasses, but the effect the expression alludes to exists in very specific circumstances e.g. street cleaning, overfishing, pollution. It's like saying overpopulation is not a thing because that social darwinist Malthus was the first to refer to it.
Bad example. Malthus was wrong and only kept getting more wrong as time passed
I'm comparing Malthus' overpopulation to a white supremacist who supposedly invented the tragedy of commons. Sounds similar. Overpopulation can happen in some societies e.g. Easter Island, but is not everywhere the cause of most ills.
I started using it since I filled up my NAS and couldn't keep hoarding stuff for my arr stack and Plex.
To be fair I always seed at least at a 2 ratio, and when I use Stremio (or Kodi) I use them through a Real Debrid account.