How does Stremio + Torrentio work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Cossty@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't have a lot of HDD space so I only seed torrents that I download to ratio of 2. Recently I discovered Stremio and torrentio add on. It is nice and l like the simplicity, but isnt it only leeching? I couldn't find anything in settings that would enable seeding. If it is only leeching idk if I want to use it.

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[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Yes, Real Debrid (RD) functions as a leech. However, in essence, RD typically only needs to leech once for widely sought-after content, storing it in a cache for quick access by any RD user.

In the worst case, RD may need to acquire less popular content through a few hit-and-run instances. RD actually contributes to minimizing leeching - if each RD user torrented independently on public trackers without seeding, the situation would be more problematic.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I guess I will just stick to good old "Download in sequential order" and watching it in vlc while it is downloading.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/250

here it say that it seed when watching

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Unless your upload speed is really big, you wont get any meaningful ratio if you are only seeding while watching the movie(in reasonable quality).

[-] sabaku_no_gaara 1 points 10 months ago

I like it because of the convience but yeah it is basically leeching. At the same time, you can only watch stuff on-the-fly when it is seeded healthily say like 70+ seeders. So using stremio doesn't really hurt anyone ig