After my last post on here asking about convenient streaming options at higher resolutions, I got a few comments recommending Stremio with Torrentio and Real Debrid.

I ended up going through with that and streamed a 4k movie. That said, what’s the catch? I’m a little paranoid because I’m not sure if this still counts as torrenting, and if I should be using a VPN while watching something from RD.

No such thing as free lunch, so I’m assuming there’s other downsides to this solution, could someone let me know what they are?

  • Gamey@feddit.rocksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use it and don’ care much but it’s definitely Torrenting so if you are in a country with bad laws and very paranoid you whould probably use a VPN but just know that the few actual lawsuites that came from this bs are at best symbolic and your chance to get hit by a lightning is probably a lot higher.

  • illyria817@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You don’t need a VPN with Torrentio + Real Debrid. You are not torrenting - they already torrented it for you, and you are streaming the cached file directly from the RD servers. I think the only “catch” is that it’s not free (obviously) so I don’t think you can call it “free lunch” lol. Torrentio addon specifically scrapes the debrid service - now, if you were to install, say, TPB addon for Stremio, it would be torrenting, so you don’t want to do that without a VPN.

    • Jaluvshuskies@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is what I understand as well. I have been using it (well, specifically streamio + Rd with torrentio addon) for half a year so far and it’s fantastic. Definitely seems too good to be true, but there’s no catch imo :)

      There’s only 3 cons which for me aren’t big deal breakers unless it’s important to you

      • No auto renewal
      • Not free, it’s like $6 for 6 months or something which imo is insanely affordable and an incredibly good deal
      • If you watch on multiple devices but at the same time, you get banned

      EDIT: As I was corrected below, bullet 3 only applies when under the same IP using different external IP addresses

      • Learning2Draw@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So it’s two months later, this still working for you? I’m looking at this for myself just setting up unraid now…

        • Jaluvshuskies@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yes, I use it practically daily and have had 0 issues aside from the very rare occasional maintenance/short outage. here’s the guide originally from reddit that I followed after spending some time trying to figure it out