Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

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    11 months ago

    If 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

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    Does this really bother folks that much? I’ve never cared much about this kind of leeching as long as it isn’t dominating my personal bandwidth. And it never has so far, though I have to admit my 4ish tb of movies isn’t exactly high demand stuff, so I don’t usually have more than one or two at a time being leeched.

    Hell, I don’t really care much about leeches anyway, as long as the overall ability to find things is still there. I look at it as the price of the freedom of torrents. There’s always going to be higher demand for data than there are people with the resources/time/willingness to seed heavily. I’m okay with that because I don’t really want to have to keep and seed every fucking thing out there, it would take much more storage than I can afford to be able to keep a ratio on most private trackers since I tend not to keep shit I don’t intend to watch at least once a year unless it’s something pretty damn obscure.

    • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      It does dominate my personal bandwidth. You’ll notice if one of your torrents is on their app. You’ll be uploading all day and it’ll fill half your peers list.

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        11 months ago

        As someone that uses stremio quite a lot thats sad but understandable to hear. I do try to make up for my leeching habbits by keeping every normal torrent seeding indefinitely.

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      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.

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        11 months ago

        I though that streamio uploads too. Because a few months ago my internet browsing was slow, after I closed streamio the issue stopped.

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          I dont think stremio does either technically. Stremio it’s typically used as a front end application for debrid services. Mainly real debrid, all debrid and premiumize.

          I believe the 2 debrids only download, but i think premiumize seeds, but not 100% sure.

          That being said if a file gets added to these services it is not constantly leeching like op said. The real debid servers for example will download a torrent and distrubute the downloaded file throughout their cdn, leaving it in their cache for 30 days. I believe each time it is accessed by a user that 30 day clock is reset.

          Stremio typically only shows cached torrents in there app so in order for a user to force a download they would need to go to their debrid provider directly and add the torrent causing it to get added to the cache.

          Is it bad for the torrenting network, yes because they don’t seed, is stremio using up all of seeders bandwidth, probably not

            • neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de
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              11 months ago

              Not 100% sure but since they are free links they wont come from torrents, at least not in the same way. They are being scraped from streaming websites.

              Whetger or not the original uploaded got them from a torrent is unknown but they would have just downloaded it once and uploaded so very different in its effect on torrenting.

              Those sites have always coexisted with torrents because they are often of low quality whereas torrents are higher quality

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                  11 months ago

                  But to answer your question, if there is a plugin with a torrent client included then it is most likely set up to download the files sequentially to allow streaming but i would assume it is set to turn upload off (so it leeches) because your tv would probably buffer more if it used additional bandwith

                  If thats the case (not 100%) then that may be why they are trying to block stremio

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            11 months ago

            My girlfriend got a legal claim for using stremio when her vpn failed which in Germany is only possible if you actively upload something so I’d say it does that

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              Ok, maybe stremio has a torrent client compiled in or maybe a plugin i dont use has one then.

              However, if you turn off upload in your torrent client you can still get caught, uploading isnt want triggers it, connecting to peers with your exposed ip triggers

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                Yeah but afaik downloading in Germany isn’t against the law since it’s allowed to download a “backup copy” of things you actually own legally so it’s pretty much never enforced. The only way people in Germany get sued is for uploading but then a couple of bytes is already enough in many cases

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                  I can’t speak for germany but where i live downloaders dont ever get sued, they just get complaints from isps and if they get too many they may be shut off or have their speed throttled.

                  Uploaders get sued because its too costly and time consuming to go after the downloaders

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    Ok… 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?

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      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.

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        From 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!)

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      I’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.

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          Here’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.

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    11 months ago

    I 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.