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

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[–] catsup@lemmy.one 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously I didn't even know about Stremio up until now

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems to be a good app if you pair it with Real Debrid. Good UI, good platform support, very popular. I just don't want it wasting my seeding bandwidth.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are more ways to detect than peer ID.

This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it's mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?

[–] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service

Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.

[–] duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy is not any where big enough of a platform to cause any noticeable Streissand Effect let alone a "massive" one

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Lmao. Lemmy's active users isn't even 1% of people pirating.