I was looking through the megathread and saw this real-debrid thing. I have heard this name some times so I read what it does but wasn’t able to understand it. If someone could explain it to me I would appreciate it.
Also, it caught my attention that “it’s a good way to prevent your IP from ever hitting the torrent’s swarm, which is the main cause of receiving copyright infringement letters”. Does this mean it’s an alternative to a VPN when torrenting? Is it like a seedboxes or something? Are there any free alternatives?
What a debriding service does is download the torrent for you, and cache it on their servers. From there you can download it from their servers without ever “touching” the torrent itself. Common uses for it are with Stremio, to stream cached movie torrents directly from the debrid service’s servers.
These services are also used to download from paywalled DDL websites, such as rapidgator, nitrodl, etc, so you do not need to wait 500 hours of 50kbps.
So it’s similar to a seedbox but with even more utilities? I don’t really understand the cache part. It’s like they “save” the downloaded files for you?
Yes, and then you stream them from their servers. It’s quite different to a seedbox though, and that’s because (apart from torrenting) they have premium subscriptions to DDL services, such as rapidgator, to allow them to rapidly download the files for multiple people. Then, you download their “saved” version of it on their server. You have no real access apart from downloading from/streaming from debriding services, whereas a seedbox you have control over it, can install other applications, have storage limits, etc.
Does this clear it up?
Yes. I understand. I have only one last problem. I hate subscription services. Although real-debrid is really cheap so if I have to pay for something it will definitely be it. But just to know, are there any free alternatives.
How in the world could they possibly cache all that content? They’d have to be google massive to be able to do that, and all for 3$/month? Something doesn’t make sense
also really popular in Germany, because if you download the torrent yourself, you can get a huge fine from the copyright owner.
I’ve wondered if Real-Debrid actually is German made too. The dash in the name gives that vibe.
