• BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 days ago

    I know I’m late to the parrrty here, but for dumm-dumms like me, anybody care to explain what the cause behind this was?

    From what I can tell Real Debrid was based out of France… but what made them change their tune all of a sudden? Did the owners get threatened similar to what people think happened to the guy running rarbg?

    Or did France just suddenly start enforcing copyrights or something? If so, then does that mean any other things non-debrid related that are based out of France are likely to run into issues too? Like, I know some open-source stuff also uses (or at least used?) France as a soemthing of a copyright-haven so that they could basically host patented media codecs etc in a separate repo (I think Fedora nd OpenSuse both have unofficial repos that do that). Wondering if that kinda thing would also be affected too or just the *debrid stuff?

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    1 month ago

    Holy shit, this company is based in France and they’re publicly doxxing their users in the replies.

    I don’t even know what to say, under GDPR they’re extra fucked now.

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      1 month ago

      Because they’ve been so keen on being law-abiding do-gooders this whole time, right.

  • Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    When I looked into real debrid years ago I noped out of it real quick after seeing the payment methods and info demanded that made it difficult to try to make the process as anonymous as possible.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah I’d say you dodged a bullet there. I always thought the amount of praise they received was unnatural and suspicious and like they would potentially use people’s information against them since they are crooks after all. I’m glad to see I was right about that, and I don’t feel bad that I didn’t sign up for RealDebrid when everyone was hoping on the hype train for it.

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    1 month ago

    I was on the subreddit for real-debrid and theres so many ppl praising them still and expecting the service to function like normal after removing their endpoint. Then ppl complaining because they cant add their pirated media, like wtf what did you expect they got busted. Theyre still there but the reason theyre still alive has been burned so, time to jump ship. Off to another place to get my files

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    1 month ago

    I find it hilarious, that anyone in their right mind (commenters in this thread included), is expecting professional accountability from a sites employees whose only function is to enable illegal piracy, and attempt to thwart any public admission which would get in the way of raking in revenue. I mean cmon people, read the room, lol. You pay for your ticket, and you take the ride, and that’s it.

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      1 month ago

      It astounds me that people are expecting professionalism from somebody whose entire business is built around facilitating a crime. What are their other reviews like? “The staff at the underground dogfighting arena were so rude and have no customer service skills. 2/5, would not visit again.”