Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling “Web3” advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything…

All I can find regarding their safety are “It’s legit, nothing has happened to me so far” comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do…

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney… But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I’m going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
    703·
    6 months ago

    I stopped using it because I figured if everyone did this and stopped sharing torrents, neither would work

    It’s kinda selfish

    • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      I read a comment somewhere that Stremio uploads like a normal client. Just a comment oc, but it should be easy to check for a network savvy reader. It may be that the plugin does it, dunno.

      • SethayyEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        Pretty sure I remember that too, but believe there was some caveat like it only uploads when watching, making made it ‘more give less take’ on average

      • NeuronautML@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        6 months ago

        It does when you’re watching. I have sys monitor widgets with rainmeter on my PC and whenever I’m watching something, it cpu is at least 5 or so degrees hotter and there’s 5 mb + network activity on the upload. You can check yourself on system monitor.

    • canEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      I felt bad leaching too but another addon fixed that

        • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
          15·
          6 months ago

          They’re talking about Real Debrid, which is a subscription service allowing access to hosters and easy conversion of torrents to direct streams. It’s really cheap and absolutely worth the money IMO, but RD doesn’t seed torrents. Distributing content in that manner would get them in heaps of legal trouble.

          I guess it does somewhat solve the problem of leeching, as if anyone has streamed a torrent via RD in the past 30 days you’ll just load their cached copy, but I was perhaps naïvely hoping for an actual addon (RD is not an addon but rather can be configured through Torrentio) that somehow seeded torrents I stream.

          • canEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            was perhaps naïvely hoping for an actual addon

            Sorry for misleading.

            • i_love_FFT@lemmy.mlEnglish
              5·
              6 months ago

              I would love to self host a real debrid service where i can control what i pre-download using the “my library” feature, something similar to the *arr suite but only using the stremio interface.

    • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
      62·
      6 months ago

      The LARPers on c/Piracy are finally taking a break from shouting ‘high seas’ and discovering the tragedy of the commons!

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I started using it since I filled up my NAS and couldn’t keep hoarding stuff for my arr stack and Plex.

      To be fair I always seed at least at a 2 ratio, and when I use Stremio (or Kodi) I use them through a Real Debrid account.