Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, says it’s implementing far-reaching anti-piracy measures, including hash and keyword filters, in response to a notice from the French Federation of Film Distributors. The API and instantAvailability feature are set for deactivation too, while content from “notorious” pirate sites will be blocked.
…well shit. What now?
Edit - I just saw some kodi devs suggesting torbox. Looks like accounts can be shared and the top offering has Usenet built in. No add-ons support yet… But eventually it looks like umbrella will support it.
I still have 2 months left on my account. I’ll wait and see what happens in the next few weeks.
Yeah I’m curious if cocoscrapers with the torrent search enabled will make this a non issue… But the website scraper was kinda great to have. I’m a bit shocked but honestly am surprised we haven’t heard more scrutiny on them …
Edit - or is it time to start paying for orionoid
Few weeks, lol, RD links already disappeared from my Kodi add-ons
Indeed. It already disappeared. Oh, well, subbed AD for a month, now. Let’s see how long it lasts.
We are experiencing an influx of new subscribers
Torbox website atm
there’s other options like all debrid
Which is French too, and will probably go the same way as RD sooner rather than later…
OH right
I’m curious, do we know why the French seem to be all over these debrid services?
My guess is it’s probably a national cultural tradition affected by previous or existing French laws and rightsholder practices regarding different common ways of “sailing”, making DDL from filehosts through debrid services a preferred choice over e.g. p2p methods like torrents, ed2k, gnutella etc. I’m pretty sure the filehosts+torrents products combo are a newer addition to debrid services without having used them myself. No idea about what their actual situation is and has been - but I know that some torrent trackers for French content currently exist today too.
After seeing this post, I tried streaming the newest episode of Silo and found it wasn’t working in my addon (which uses a4kscrapers).
My mother tried streaming Slow Horses (using same addon) after I told her and she said it worked fine. I guess it had already been cached and was therefore unaffected since the file I streamed was only released today.
Anyway I luckily only had 8 days left of RD, so I subscribed to Premiumize and it only took a minute to reconfigure the addon to use that instead.
And just as I started considering one of their plans. Well, I guess this reduces the time I must consider it to zero.
Here are some other options to consider: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722
Well, back to Usenet and Jellyfin for me I guess.
I never left. 20+ years of consistency on Usenet.
What stops Usenet from being attacked legally in the same way, aren’t they straight up hosting copyrighted content? I’ve always stuck to torrents because it seemed more decentralized, especially if you use DHT instead of an indexer.
Usenet often uses obfuscation to hide the contents of the files, which defeats most of the bots which are only matching filenames to their protected content.
I also prefer Usenet since I can encrypt my connection, whereas torrents require a bit more faith in your VPN provider than I’m comfortable with.
I see, but couldn’t they just sign up for a provider and then hook up their bots to the same search that you use? Or is the search obfuscated for you too? In other words how do they obfuscate it for the bots but not for the customers? That’s what I never really understood - if the answer is just that the people running the bots are just too lazy to hook them up through the same unobfuscated search that paying customers use then that makes sense, but I always assumed there was more of a barrier since Usenet seems to have evaded legal action since forever.
Usenet is almost always split rar files, and not all Usenet providers are in the same DMCA covered jurisdictions so instead of sending a takedown to one site you need to send a takedown for 100s of files and to dozens of providers. The takedown requests can often be rejected on the grounds that fjdjwofhxzzoajfnq.r01 isn’t actually the offending copyright material claimed by the notice.
Its possible to do manually but that costs more money and a lot more time, almost all of the requests these days are automated using bots with very little human oversight.
They could and they will.
How would one get onto Usenet? Asking for a faaarrrrriend
I ask for another one as well
I subbed for 6 months, FUCKKKKKK!
For sketchy services in grey or illegal area, I’ve started paying month to month for exactly this reason.
Chargeback?
I asked for a refund. They refund, only to cancel it just after. Now I have no subscription nor money …
Zurg seems to still work. So people who use this for Plex or Jellyfin shouldn’t be to affected.
Stremio users on the other hand either have to switch services or wait and see what the dev from Debrid Media Manager comes up with.
Personally, I’ll probably switch to AllDebrid until TorBox proves it can handle the influx of new customers and grows it’s cache.
I know some of these words
I’ve been using AllDebrid for years and I’d recommend it. Hopefully they won’t come after them soon too
At $4/month I’m willing to risk it. Honestly I’d like to use TorBox but they need to get a bit more established.
ah shit, it’s been my best friend with Jdownloader2 (i guess this affects DDL too?) for a while now :( good that my premium is close to ending I guess
Fuck. I still have 149 days. I contacted support asking to cancel and get a prorated refund.
I will do the same…
Shit. I still have 21 days. I had some scripts made with the api that i’m going to have to remake now.
