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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[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 67 points 5 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.ml 12 points 5 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.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 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

[-] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago

Still better than leeches IMO

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

I have a network monitor on my Shield TV all the time and I remember when I first tried it with Torrentio I could see my upload monitor having activity.

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 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.