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Is Stremio a honeypot? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[–] Templa 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

People that really want convenience just pay for streaming services. Stremio has a shitty transferrate and even with 1GB internet you aren't able to watch anything 4k, for example.

I can't relate with the complait about setting up jellyfin/VPN, that's something you only need to do once. Theorically Stremio would also need a VPN because it is getting it from a torrent, no? Just get stuff you need in advance and you won't have to wait and will get to watch something HQ if you have the setup to do so.

I also don't know/care about debrid so I can't comment on it. Isn't it direct download?

[–] Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So most people use Stremio with debrid, debrid caches torrents for you (without seeding) on their servers. With that you can stream blu ray remuxes (80 - 100 gb files) without downloading them and no vpn is required since it’s https encrypted from their servers. It turns into a combination of all the streaming services

[–] Templa 7 points 5 months ago

Well glory to the private trackers, I guess. You need to have people seeding for torrents to work. I really believe this might kill public trackers if it gets too popular.

[–] TwoCubed@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People that really want convenience just pay for streaming services.

Streaming services stopped being convenient a couple of years ago. Introduction of ads, content strewn all over the place, shitty UI, etc.

I went with Stremio because it has everything in one place. Seeding is not an option because Germany is a shit country for seeding Torrents.

Real Debrid does the torrenting while the end user downloads the cached content. I'm not sure if they seed or not however.

[–] Templa 1 points 5 months ago

I don't disagree with you, but we all forget that the medium user isn't tech savvy like all of us and it is the main reason they get predated upon by big tech.