(And I use "Free" loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)

Yaaarrh

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[–] 272 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The open seas is calling you.

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  • [+] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    It's like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it's touched

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sail with us on the great ship Stremio

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Stremio kind of sucks. You're leeching a torrent you'll never seed.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I see where your coming from but not everyone has the space to seed a torrent. I think those that use stremio and understand torrenting will one day, if they have enough storage contribute to seeding. I'm running on 256gb here T-T

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Then don't use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Caching a torrent isn't leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Caching a torrent requires downloading, no? What guarantee do you have that they're seeding that leech?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    not true, it does sort of the opposite:

    debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that's why they aren't free: they need data storage).

    this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.

    from stremio's FAQs:

    How Debrid Services Work with Stremio

    Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:

    1. Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
    2. Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
    3. Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
    4. Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers
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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    So you're telling me that they're offering a paid service for free. That makes me trust and want to use it even less.

    EDIT: Turns out that stremoo doesn't use debrid. That's something a stremio user can configure. By default, you do leech torrents and never seed then.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Stremio is free, the service you need to cache the torrents (Real-Debrid) isn't. It's about $/€3 per month, which is still cheaper than a VPN (which you need for torrents but not for Stremio/Debrid).

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, so if I get this right, stremio has nothing to do with debrid on its own. So if you just use Stremio, as is, you are leeching a torrent you don't seed?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Correct. Without a Debrid service, you stream the torrent directly from the tracker. It's also slow AF for all but the most popular content so you really don't want to go without.

    (In my experience most torrents are already cached on Debrid, BTW, so there's no hit and run since you're just downloading the file directly from a server.)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    So my original point about Stremio itself was correct I guess. Most common users that have no idea what debrid is (like me until 24hs ago xd) will leech torrents and never seed them. That kinda sucks, big time.

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