For those of us hit by the recent announcement here is a graph I found with some other services worth checking for your next voyages. I have crossed out All-Debrid too as that is also hosted in France and is bound to be hit by the same hammer as Real-Debrid was.

Feel free to share your alternative solutions in the comments below, but always do you research carefully!

The graph shows which Debrid services are supported by each addon for Stremio. Torbox seems to be a new popular and modern alternative. If anyone has any experience with any of the listed services then feel free to share your experiences in the comments.

Edit: Debrid-Link is also French!

Source to graph: https://guides.viren070.me/stremio/faq?debrid-service=real-debrid#which-debrid-services-are-supported-by-each-addon

  • Skoll@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Trying out TorBox as I write this. Has some cool features and it looks like a lot of people from RD are hopping over to it. New servers are arriving Monday for the huge amount of new users. And it’s also quite cheap. There’s a black friday sale going on right now too.

  • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Out of the loop here, what happened to real debrid? Its the most useful piracy tool i have used in years.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Kinda related, it seems that the Fen Light addon creator also says goodbye to the Kodi scene… It seems like a big day for streaming piracy.

  • tiredowl2020@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    73·
    2 days ago

    Having lived in France for 2 years i can say that the bureaucracy there is out of control. Paperwork upon paperwork upon paperwork to get ANYTHING done. That said, any formal notice probably took years to draft and send, and then the debrid folks probably can drag their heels for years. I’m personally not jumping ship quite yet but i’ll pay month to month and wait it out.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Afaik a remote torrent client that you stream the media from.
      Something like a cross between a seedbox and a media cloud. Then you either implement it somehow into your media streamer like Jellyfin/Plex or a browser.

  • noride@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I was able to fully switch to Prem this morning in < 15 minutes fwiw.

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Any idea how this affects those of us who only use it for random stuff where torrents are too slow or to bypass Rapidshare speed limits?

    • Detective'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Not sure tbh. Guess it depends what you are downloading and if you are using their service directly and not through their API. They will not block and ban people downloading stuff from their banned lists and their API can no longer be used.

      It’s better to switch Debrid Service to support someone willing to host a better service imo.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          They removed some APIs and are blocking some torrents by name, other torrents may still work for now but don’t get too comfortable though. They will likely start removing the cached torrents with copyrighted content in the future.

          • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            22·
            13 hours ago

            The API has been mostly worked around. stremio, the major addons, rdt, and zurg works.

            People keep saying “just wait…” but nothing ever happens.

            There have been issues caused by maintenance that were more troublesome then this.

            • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              8 hours ago

              You know what, do as you wish, just like @Sunny@slrpnk.net already said. It’s your money and you’re free to waste it. However this list and advice is here to help people who desire not to waste their own money not end up wasting their own. Now they’ve already given an official annoucement on their Twitter that they are taking steps to limit or action illegal content. If you wish to not see the writing on the wall that’s up to you, but it does exist and it is happening.

    • Detective'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      142·
      3 days ago

      I have crossed out All-Debrid too as that is also hosted in France and is bound to be hit by the same hammer as Real-Debrid was.

      • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        717·
        3 days ago

        Kind of misleading as all debrid works fine and there is no guarantee it will be “hit by the same hammer” anytime soon or ever. The reasoning your using is an appeal to probability which is a logical fallacy.

        • Որբունի@jlai.luEnglish
          8·
          3 days ago

          France has extremely powerful copyright trolls, restrictive laws, and a culture of oppression by bureaucrats. There’s even a tax on storage mediums that goes to the MAFIAA. what.cd got nuked, RealDebrid got threatened hard enough that they gave in. I wouldn’t spend any money on anything illegal hosted in France.

        • Detective'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          101·
          3 days ago

          Do as you wish, pay for what you want to pay for - its your money.

          That being said; these services will have to comply with French law. Real-Debrid probably didn’t have much choice to do what they did as they were hit with a formal notice from the French Federation of Film Distributors (FNEF). The french have been for a long while now been trying very hard to remove as many of these services as possible. First it was Hadopi agency, now merged with the Higher Audiovisual Council to form the more powerful regulator Arcom. Here’s a SS from this article about their anti-piracy efforts in 2022.

          Similar services that are hosted in France will have to comply the second they get a notice from Arcom. France is obviously way more committed to removing piracy I’d say its a good call to not pay into french services… Personally, I wont be paying for services hosted in France as I believe its only a matter of time before more are struck down.

          • kindenough@kbin.earth
            53·
            3 days ago

            They where “hit” by the Federation of Film Distributors, not by any French court.

            We can’t assume any legal consequences just yet and certainly not outside French jurisdiction. People should keep their head together before jumping to conclusions of being hit by hammers, or by announcements or worse…possible hangings and guillotines.

          • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            24·
            3 days ago

            I’m not sure why there is so much push back. You made a post showing alternatives to real debrid but you crossed out all debrid even though it works.