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

46 points

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.

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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. 😓

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5 points

Upgrading? Regularly? stares at 25x2TB ancient array

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3 points

Still more up front than a few dollars.

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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.

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4 points

Real debrid helped me download torrents that had 0 seeds when I tried in any. More than once.

Sad to see them go.

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2 points

Also great for those files that can only be found in premium sites, even scribd.

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My friend just hooks his laptop up to his TV, connects to his VPN, and plays popcorntime (streaming torrents). He used to use streaming sites, but those have been getting taken down left and right.

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29 points

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.

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Me too, last Friday

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You should probably try to get your money back via chargeback. This service is basically useless at this point, so might as well get money back better spent on something else if you still can. Worst they do is ban you from the service, a service they have already made not worth it anymore.

CC: @Evkob@lemmy.ca

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Eh, I won’t die over 20$, it’s due to something out of their control that anyone could have seen coming, and I’ve been quite the satisfied customer since I’ve been using Real-Debrid. I wouldn’t judge anyone for doing a chargeback, but I personally don’t really feel the urge to do so.

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3 points

Don’t you have to pay for arr services?

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16 points

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.

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4 points

Fuckin hell don’t I know it. Going on 2 HDDs and 1 SSD

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8 points

No, they directly download the files via torrents on your pc

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7 points

They’re not services per se, but are a stack of software that you can kinda “clump” together for the lack of a better word.

For instance I started using qbittorrent client recently instead of Transmission that I was using before as my torrent client because I can’t find a way for Transmission to not download malware, and you can also do the very same with the indexer clients such as Jackett or Prowlarr which then talk to other software such as Radarr/Sonarr via API keys and is usually where most get caught out.

Read the docs, get thoroughly confused, and probably do it in docker too as everyone says if your hardware is sufficient.

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2 points

Don’t have to but get a better experience if pay for newsgroup access.

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18 points

I’d recommend a move to torbox, trying it out now and honestly like it more than RD.

Thanks RD for helping me find a better service

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15 points

Just in time for Usenet Black Friday sales :)

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7 points

And what country are they located, pray tell?

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They’re located all over the world, just find one that’s close to you and enjoy :)

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0 points

So…they’re yeet proof? As in …harder to get yeeted?

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14 points

Glad I never subscribed to it.

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Me too, I kind of always saw this coming and it really pissed me off when elitist pirates would try and bully people into buying it. Now I can and will rub their faces in it.

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I mean I’m just gonna go buy an identical service, so have fun with your face rubbing.

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I was mainly taking a jab at the original Kodi addons community which had a lot of very toxic and elitist people in it which would bully people for not wanting to buy, specifically, RealDebrid to use for addons which only work with RealDebrid. These people are very much screwed now because many of those addons were RealDebrid exclusive and are effectively broken because of it. They were warned about this many times before and they laughed at the people who warned them about this happening.

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I wouldn’t call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.

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I agree, it was the best way I could describe the behavior, since they think they are elites even though they absolutely are not.

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