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.

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…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.

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I still have 2 months left on my account. I’ll wait and see what happens in the next few weeks.

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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

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is orionoid any good?

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Few weeks, lol, RD links already disappeared from my Kodi add-ons

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Indeed. It already disappeared. Oh, well, subbed AD for a month, now. Let’s see how long it lasts.

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We are experiencing an influx of new subscribers

Torbox website atm

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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.

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there’s other options like all debrid

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Which is French too, and will probably go the same way as RD sooner rather than later…

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OH right

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I’m curious, do we know why the French seem to be all over these debrid services?

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And just as I started considering one of their plans. Well, I guess this reduces the time I must consider it to zero.

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Here are some other options to consider: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722

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Well, back to Usenet and Jellyfin for me I guess.

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I never left. 20+ years of consistency on Usenet.

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Usenet always confused me. what service do you recommend?

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Eweka

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How would one get onto Usenet? Asking for a faaarrrrriend

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I ask for another one as well

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I subbed for 6 months, FUCKKKKKK!

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For sketchy services in grey or illegal area, I’ve started paying month to month for exactly this reason.

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Chargeback?

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I asked for a refund. They refund, only to cancel it just after. Now I have no subscription nor money …

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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.

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I know some of these words

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I’ve been using AllDebrid for years and I’d recommend it. Hopefully they won’t come after them soon too

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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.

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