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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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[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

...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.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

We are experiencing an influx of new subscribers

Torbox website atm

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rotkehle@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

So i find it a great search engine and supplement, but the free version was always sufficient. This might change things... might... it's hard to know what's going to happen... but the API thing is huge.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there's other options like all debrid

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I subbed for 6 months, FUCKKKKKK!

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Chargeback?

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

How would one get onto Usenet? Asking for a faaarrrrriend

[–] Lemonyoda@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 hours ago

I ask for another one as well

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Usenet is almost always split rar files, and not all Usenet providers are in the same DMCA covered jurisdictions so instead of sending a takedown to one site you need to send a takedown for 100s of files and to dozens of providers. The takedown requests can often be rejected on the grounds that fjdjwofhxzzoajfnq.r01 isn't actually the offending copyright material claimed by the notice.

Its possible to do manually but that costs more money and a lot more time, almost all of the requests these days are automated using bots with very little human oversight.

[–] razm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

They could and they will.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] rotkehle@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usenet always confused me. what service do you recommend?

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

I know some of these words

[–] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ah shit, it's been my best friend with Jdownloader2 (i guess this affects DDL too?) for a while now :( good that my premium is close to ending I guess

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck. I still have 149 days. I contacted support asking to cancel and get a prorated refund.

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I will do the same...

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Shit. I still have 21 days. I had some scripts made with the api that i'm going to have to remake now.