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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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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

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

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 47 minutes ago

I subbed for 6 months, FUCKKKKKK!

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 35 minutes ago

I will do the same...

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours 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 1 points 2 hours 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 2 points 2 hours ago (1 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.

[–] razm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

They could and they will.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rotkehle@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Usenet always confused me. what service do you recommend?

[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 13 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

there's other options like all debrid

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

We are experiencing an influx of new subscribers

Torbox website atm

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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 1 points 1 hour ago

is orionoid any good?

[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] gila@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.