PSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm. - eviltoast

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

  • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    11 months ago

    If you use a debrid service, you’re okay because the debrid service just downloads the file once and caches it for everyone, and you pay for the bandwidth to download from them. That isn’t excessive leeching, whether they seed or not.

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      11 months ago

      From my early torrent days, we used to say that any torrent we dont seed back to at rast 1:1 is bad for the network (leeching). I can see why there is a desire to block StremIO clients, but if it was modified to see back to some ratio, it would be nicer.

      As for debrid, it’s a bit too “centralised” for me still… I’ve read that it’s a major weak point in the system and that servers are often unavailable. That’s why i like the resilience of torrents. (Plus the sharing aspect. Sharing is caring!)