Real-Debrid Implements Extreme Anti-Piracy Filters to Appease Film Companies (torrentfreak.com)

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Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, says it's implementing far-reaching anti-piracy measures, including hash and keyword filters, in response to a notice from the French Federation of Film Distributors. The API and instantAvailability feature are set for deactivation too, while content from "notorious" pirate sites will be blocked.

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[-] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Which is French too, and will probably go the same way as RD sooner rather than later...

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

OH right

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm curious, do we know why the French seem to be all over these debrid services?

[-] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

My guess is it's probably a national cultural tradition affected by previous or existing French laws and rightsholder practices regarding different common ways of "sailing", making DDL from filehosts through debrid services a preferred choice over e.g. p2p methods like torrents, ed2k, gnutella etc. I'm pretty sure the filehosts+torrents products combo are a newer addition to debrid services without having used them myself. No idea about what their actual situation is and has been - but I know that some torrent trackers for French content currently exist today too.