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

  • IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I though that streamio uploads too. Because a few months ago my internet browsing was slow, after I closed streamio the issue stopped.

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      11 months ago

      I dont think stremio does either technically. Stremio it’s typically used as a front end application for debrid services. Mainly real debrid, all debrid and premiumize.

      I believe the 2 debrids only download, but i think premiumize seeds, but not 100% sure.

      That being said if a file gets added to these services it is not constantly leeching like op said. The real debid servers for example will download a torrent and distrubute the downloaded file throughout their cdn, leaving it in their cache for 30 days. I believe each time it is accessed by a user that 30 day clock is reset.

      Stremio typically only shows cached torrents in there app so in order for a user to force a download they would need to go to their debrid provider directly and add the torrent causing it to get added to the cache.

      Is it bad for the torrenting network, yes because they don’t seed, is stremio using up all of seeders bandwidth, probably not

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          11 months ago

          Not 100% sure but since they are free links they wont come from torrents, at least not in the same way. They are being scraped from streaming websites.

          Whetger or not the original uploaded got them from a torrent is unknown but they would have just downloaded it once and uploaded so very different in its effect on torrenting.

          Those sites have always coexisted with torrents because they are often of low quality whereas torrents are higher quality

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        11 months ago

        My girlfriend got a legal claim for using stremio when her vpn failed which in Germany is only possible if you actively upload something so I’d say it does that

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          11 months ago

          Ok, maybe stremio has a torrent client compiled in or maybe a plugin i dont use has one then.

          However, if you turn off upload in your torrent client you can still get caught, uploading isnt want triggers it, connecting to peers with your exposed ip triggers