I’ve been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I’d imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I’d be starting over.
There’s no need for torrenting with services like Stremio (with Real-Debrid).
There is if you intend to keep torrents alive.
I haven’t heard that before, so I had to search a bit. This poster says Stremio uploads, but theres no docs. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/182cb7f/does_stremio_upload/
Stremio uploads/seeds just when you’re watching the movie, and usually with a very small cache. On a 20gb movie maybe you seed 200-300mb, which isn’t anything substantial
Real Debrid doesn’t seed anything. Stremio just has other addons that can seed torrents, but they’re not Real Debrid or one of the other debrid services
I don’t have any need to keep torrents alive when Debrid services cache them all. Direct HTTPS file streams/downloads are so much faster than torrenting. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Theres no need for stremio if you torrent (remotely) and host jellyfin at home. Only a power outage can take me out.
Oh, I run a Plex server as well. I just never ever use it anymore and don’t have any more desire to waste time (even on 1GBPs download speeds, torrents take too long) or disk space on it when I can access any movie or TV episode instantly now. It’s so much more convenient.