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Shout out to all the devs who never sold their souls.

• 1oooqooq 2y ago
  except all those "consumer friedly" torrent things are the definition of selling one's soul.
  • jampekka 2y ago
    In what sense? Leeching?
    • 1oooqooq 2y ago
      most of the clients are ripped off open source and sold for profit/subscription. and filled to the brim with trojans and adware.
      • hedora 2y ago
        Isn’t that the same as 99% of commercial phone apps? (Not defending it; I’m just saying it compares favorably with whatever crap is in most non-pirate apps.)
      • jampekka 2y ago
        Stremio is (mostly) open source and doesn't cost a penny and AFAIK has no malware. It does sometimes have some ads, about which they are very open about. Debrid and torrent indexing services are simple websites/APIs with some mostly proprietary hacked together backends. Some of them have subscriptions, but you know what you buy if you subscribe, and many don't even have recurring payments. Someone probably makes some profit out of those, but I'd guess the margins are quite slim, and there's a lot of competition. There are surely a lot of scams out there too, but I'm quite well aware what my $3 per month buys and I know better what I'm installing or downloading than with any commercial services. Majority of what's happening underneath is done by the saints of the scene, taking huge risks for zero pay.