Following a formal notice from the FNEF (https://fnef.fr/les-adherents/), Real-Debrid is strengthening its anti-piracy measures. As you already know, we actively comply with DMCA and are already blocking a certain number of infringing torrents. In the coming hours: - audiovisual files available on a number of cyberlockers listed on the USTR blacklist or listed in the European “CCounterfeit and Piracy Watch List” will all be blocked. - a filtering by file name will also be applied, in accordance with the request of the FNEF, this may unfortunately lead to false positives that we will process manually. - a blocking of all torrents hashes of private torrent trackers mentioned in cases at the Paris judicial court - a complete purge of files potentially cached on the previously mentioned criteria - the deactivation of the API endpoint /instantAvaibility - a blocking of counterfeit Kodi / Stremio applications to the extent that they are identifiable
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Just in time for Usenet Black Friday sales :)
And what country are they located, pray tell?
They’re located all over the world, just find one that’s close to you and enjoy :)
So…they’re yeet proof? As in …harder to get yeeted?
Well, I was planning on looking into RealDebrid over my week off in winter, but I guess that’s done now, damn.
Here are some alternatives to look into: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722
What is the USTR blacklist? how do we preserve this data before its lost?
It looks like in terms of torrent sites
- 1337x
- rutracker
- the pirate bay
- torrentgalaxy (replaced RARBG)
- yts
Are all on the list. seems like torrentio is gonna be a big victim of this.
More info here
USTR blacklist
Anna’s Archive, Libgen, etc are all on here. this is just 2023
Damn.
Bummer, I renewed my subscription for 6 months just two days ago.
I guess this’ll finally be an excuse for me to setup Jellyfin and the arr-stack. I really don’t mind too much (honestly I’d be fine just downloading torrents manually for whatever I want to watch) but my roommates really appreciated how easy to use Stremio is.
Don’t you have to pay for arr services?
A VPN is the only bit you’d pay for, alongside the inevitable mass of HDDs to store everything on once you get addicted to just keeping everything forever in your own personal Netflix.
Fuckin hell don’t I know it. Going on 2 HDDs and 1 SSD
20gb elements are on sale atm. Lowest price I’ve seen them. They are easy to shuck if you only want the drive. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VCXWPQG
Fuck I just bought 6 months zzzz
As I’ve said in other comments you can easily get your money back, probably would be worth it since it’s not like RD will be of much use once they start pulling cached files.
Refund policy is if you used it at all they don’t refund. So if you watched one stream that counts
I didn’t say ask them for a refund. I said get your money back. A chargeback is more than fair in this case considering their service is already or about to become worthless. Yeah they’ll probably ban the account but they don’t have the leverage anymore to threaten you not to do that because yet again, the service is worthless at this point.
Same, lol
Been using traditional methods to get my isos and store them locally, and on arrs/Plex for well over a decade.
Honestly the debris stuff never ever interested me, unless the data is in your control locally the rug pull is always on the horizon.
I do wish we could make it easier for non-technical folk, not everyone is wrong in the head like I am to be happy enough building and maintaining a NAS and the software stack required.
Unfortunately not everyone has access to cheap storage so for us a few bucks a month is more cost effective than having to upgrade expensive storage regularly. 😓
Upgrading? Regularly? stares at 25x2TB ancient array
For more storage space yes. We have 2x2TB HDDs in raid atm and a few years ago that cost more than $100 (although I forget the exact amount). I have no doubt they will last long long time (I have a 1TB HDD in my PC that is about 10 years old and still going strong). But we can’t even store all our favourites let alone movies/shows we watch as one offs. So we would need to ‘upgrade’ what we have which we can’t remotely afford because in this country even 2nd hand storage adds up to expensive.
Still more up front than a few dollars.
Real debrid helped me download torrents that had 0 seeds when I tried in any. More than once.
Sad to see them go.
Also great for those files that can only be found in premium sites, even scribd.
What are peoples preferred alternatives to use with stemio?
As others in this thread I literally just paid for 6 months on Realdebrid Woop!
Do a chargeback, get your money back for it, assuming you can and it hasn’t been too long. What are they gonna do? Ban you? Ha that’s rich their service is about to become darn near worthless, that’s an empty threat that doesn’t have any teeth. Download your existing files and get your money back from them.
I know I’m late to the parrrty here, but for dumm-dumms like me, anybody care to explain what the cause behind this was?
From what I can tell Real Debrid was based out of France… but what made them change their tune all of a sudden? Did the owners get threatened similar to what people think happened to the guy running rarbg?
Or did France just suddenly start enforcing copyrights or something? If so, then does that mean any other things non-debrid related that are based out of France are likely to run into issues too? Like, I know some open-source stuff also uses (used) France as a copyright-haven so that they could basically host patented media codecs in a separate repo (I think Fedora nd OpenSuse both have unofficial repos that do that). Wondering if that kinda thing would also be affected too or just the *debrid stuff?
Is this gonna hurt arr stack?
No
Edit: why the down votes? It has absolutely no impact on the arr-stack, I just answered their question…
