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?

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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      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?

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        1 year ago

        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