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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's an app that can integrate with a lot of streaming services(officially) and has a built-in torrent client(that does nothing). (You know, all of this so that they can be accessible on all platforms, etc. torrenting isn't viewed kindly by platform makers) With the help of third party plugins (such as Torrentio) stremio now has access to systems where you can integrate with torrent sources so that when you browse for your movie, you can also see torrent sources and with the help of the built in torrent client, you can also stream them. Stremio has casting support and apps for all devices, even TV. It makes it really easy to watch movies easier and in better quality than any streaming service. It also keeps track where you last were in your movie so you can resume, the same thing for shows, also has many other useful extensions that streaming services don't support, such as Trakt.tv integration, or browsing curated lists of movies and shows from anywhere, as well as integrating with other sources outside of torrents such as providers holding archived materials.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's the catch? A free app on the play store that has acceess to all premium Netflix or Amazon content would be banned directly into purgatory.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The app doesn’t have access to any of that, it can show you where you can legally access it

But if you run 3rd party plugins then you can access some illegal content

I don’t really see the point of it vs traditional piracy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People still want the streaming service experience of scrolling for 30 minutes before giving up and watching something they've already seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Happy to oblige

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

i still do that when scrolling-through directories of 'saved' content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Using a torrent plugin without a debrid service has the usual torrenting issues. In some countries torrents are monitored by copyright holders, so in NA getting letters from the ISP for copyright infringement is an issue. In Germany torrentio is a great way to receive a few hundres to thousands euro fine.

By using a debrid service it's a pretty good experience (if your watching in english, as other languages are often not well represented on public trackers).