Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.
catsup ( @catsup@lemmy.one ) English34•7 months agoIf it’s spoofing them, its going to be more effort than it’s worth to actually detect that client. I strongly recommend you to delete this post or you’re gonna cause a massive Streissand Effect
There are more ways to detect than peer ID.
This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English11•7 months agoMe, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.
duplexsystem ( @duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•7 months agoLemmy is not any where big enough of a platform to cause any noticeable Streissand Effect let alone a “massive” one
SchizoDenji ( @SchizoDenji@lemm.ee ) English5•7 months agoLmao. Lemmy’s active users isn’t even 1% of people pirating.
Lido ( @lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English19•7 months agoI don’t understand what’s going on. Can someone ELI5?
Torrents are people sharing files with each other, uploading and downloading. Stremio downloads, but never uploads. And now it doesn’t want you to know who’s using it, because people kept banning it.
Lido ( @lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•7 months agoGot it. Thanks!
i_love_FFT ( @i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ) English15•7 months agoOk… 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?
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.
i_love_FFT ( @i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ) English1•7 months agoFrom 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!)
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English3•7 months agoI’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.
Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•7 months agoHow much was it? They don’t seem to have prices clearly on their website.
Froyn ( @Froyn@kbin.social ) 6•7 months agoHere’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. Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•7 months agoThank you mate :)
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JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) English2•7 months agoI could never get it to work well, every movie I tried would only play for a few seconds then buffer, then just become unplayable, on very good Internet.
Bear_with_a_hammer ( @Bear_with_a_hammer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•7 months agoDid anyone create issue yet?