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
What are some non-piracy use cases for real-debrid?
None
Distributing Linux ISOs
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.
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.
Sounds like most countries in western Europe. Germany being the worst.
I wouldn’t say that Germany is the worst.
Because my request to do so is pending since '09.
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.
What are these?
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.
How is Debrid-link? Its considerably cheaper than Premiumize
The 2 and 3 year black friday deal (only this week!) for premiumize is cheap per month
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?
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.
Out of the loop here, what happened to real debrid? Its the most useful piracy tool i have used in years.
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.
non twitter link: nitter.poast.org/realdebrid/status/1859673163681960169
yeah, that sucks. It was literally perfect for what i needed. ah well
