Following a formal notice from the FNEF (https://fnef.fr/les-adherents/), Real-Debrid is strengthening its anti-piracy measures. As you already know, we actively comply with DMCA and are already blocking a certain number of infringing torrents. In the coming hours: - audiovisual files available on a number of cyberlockers listed on the USTR blacklist or listed in the European “CCounterfeit and Piracy Watch List” will all be blocked. - a filtering by file name will also be applied, in accordance with the request of the FNEF, this may unfortunately lead to false positives that we will process manually. - a blocking of all torrents hashes of private torrent trackers mentioned in cases at the Paris judicial court - a complete purge of files potentially cached on the previously mentioned criteria - the deactivation of the API endpoint /instantAvaibility - a blocking of counterfeit Kodi / Stremio applications to the extent that they are identifiable

  • Evkob (they/them)
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    206 months ago

    Bummer, I renewed my subscription for 6 months just two days ago.

    I guess this’ll finally be an excuse for me to setup Jellyfin and the arr-stack. I really don’t mind too much (honestly I’d be fine just downloading torrents manually for whatever I want to watch) but my roommates really appreciated how easy to use Stremio is.

    • Draconic NEO
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      106 months ago

      Do a chargeback, get your money back for it, assuming you can and it hasn’t been too long. What are they gonna do? Ban you? Ha that’s rich their service is about to become darn near worthless, that’s an empty threat that doesn’t have any teeth. Download your existing files and get your money back from them.

  • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    66 months ago

    Well, I was planning on looking into RealDebrid over my week off in winter, but I guess that’s done now, damn.

  • Noah
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    56 months ago

    What is the USTR blacklist? how do we preserve this data before its lost?

    • Draconic NEO
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      36 months ago

      As I’ve said in other comments you can easily get your money back, probably would be worth it since it’s not like RD will be of much use once they start pulling cached files.

        • Draconic NEO
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          16 months ago

          I didn’t say ask them for a refund. I said get your money back. A chargeback is more than fair in this case considering their service is already or about to become worthless. Yeah they’ll probably ban the account but they don’t have the leverage anymore to threaten you not to do that because yet again, the service is worthless at this point.

  • @neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 months ago

    Thankfully my subscription ends in a few weeks and didn’t reup early.

    Does anyone have any suggestions for Kodi? I’ve been using seren + rd for years, I got a month of all debrid since I can use it with seren, but it being based in France as well I’d rather switch.

    I found POV which I can use with torbox. But I’m absolutely clueless as to what the popular, functional addons are nowadays.

  • @BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 months ago

    I know I’m late to the parrrty here, but for dumm-dumms like me, anybody care to explain what the cause behind this was?

    From what I can tell Real Debrid was based out of France… but what made them change their tune all of a sudden? Did the owners get threatened similar to what people think happened to the guy running rarbg?

    Or did France just suddenly start enforcing copyrights or something? If so, then does that mean any other things non-debrid related that are based out of France are likely to run into issues too? Like, I know some open-source stuff also uses (used) France as a copyright-haven so that they could basically host patented media codecs in a separate repo (I think Fedora nd OpenSuse both have unofficial repos that do that). Wondering if that kinda thing would also be affected too or just the *debrid stuff?