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Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that's just BitTorrent.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Popcorn Time was pretty close

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea lives on. You can use Stremio with Torrentio.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The issue with Streamio is that it uses torrents but doesn’t seed. It just caches the content and then deletes it. If everyone used Streamio, nobody would be able to because there would be no seeds for anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's the reason I stopped using Stremio but it's also the reason why it remains legal in some countries. Popcorn Time had an option to enable/disable seeding on the settings. I really wish Stremio had the same.

I want to keep my ratio above 10, so I use a combination of several other things to replace Stremio on Android TV. It's a lot less polished but I get a good feeling from seeding.