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Alternatives to Real Debrid (Debrid Services) (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

debrid link is also hosted in France.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are these?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What are some non-piracy use cases for real-debrid?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Distributing Linux ISOs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Why would someone pay for RD for that instead of just using the torrent there directly or the direct download from the servers? I don't know it seems like overkill to use a debrid service for something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

None

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Afaik: Non.
Personal projects?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Me still using Premiumize.

Holiday Prepaid sale is live

~$3.86/month

w/36 month subscription

Seren/Otaku fed into TMDb add-on w/Arctic Fuze skin ✅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like most countries in western Europe. Germany being the worst.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't say that Germany is the worst.

Because my request to do so is pending since '09.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Aaaannnd Real Debrid is working again...wild ride this is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is Debrid-link? Its considerably cheaper than Premiumize

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not sure myself, just went with one month of Premiumize to test that first. Will then try the rest too see which service suits me better.

Ah NVM... Debrid Link is also French.... https://debrid-link.com/legal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why is AllDebrid crossed out? Just cause its French based as well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it will likely meet the same fate as RealDebrid in the future.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I mean its already working again...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Are you not feeling the hammer of being hit by an announcement?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In short: it's gone "full legal" mode. Blocking most used streaming sites and removed their API access. So it's literally unusable for folks sailing the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, very disappointing, luckily, the downloader still works semi-reliably for software. I only have 21 days left anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://x.com/realdebrid/status/1859673163681960169

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

non twitter link: nitter.poast.org/realdebrid/status/1859673163681960169

yeah, that sucks. It was literally perfect for what i needed. ah well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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