“Let Chaos storm, let cloud shapes swarm; I wait for form”
They’re probably one of the people who were back on r/RealDebrid or r/Addons4Kodi who were blatantly in-denial that anything would ever happen to RealDebrid, and still are in denial about it. Despite the evidence being clear and straight from the horse’s mouth.
You know what, do as you wish, just like @Sunny@slrpnk.net already said. It’s your money and you’re free to waste it. However this list and advice is here to help people who desire not to waste their own money not end up wasting their own. Now they’ve already given an official annoucement on their Twitter that they are taking steps to limit or action illegal content. If you wish to not see the writing on the wall that’s up to you, but it does exist and it is happening.
I wasn’t promoting the other communities in this post as they are mostly abandoned. The goal with creating this one is to have a new one which is actively managed. Something that isn’t really the case in the others.
Yeah I agree, it’s the contrast and colors that really matter, hence why OLEDs are becoming more popular and content looks much better on OLEDs even if it’s just 1080p or even 720p
If you click the lemmyverse.link url in the post it should redirect to the one on your home instance or the local version on lemmy.dbzer0.com Also I wasn’t aware there were two others. I knew about the lemmy.ml one (hence why I also posted on !de_ml@lemmy.blahaj.zone but I didn’t know about the other ones on world or giftedmc.com (instance I never even heard of).
They removed some APIs and are blocking some torrents by name, other torrents may still work for now but don’t get too comfortable though. They will likely start removing the cached torrents with copyrighted content in the future.
Yeah, it will likely meet the same fate as RealDebrid in the future.
Why would someone pay for RD for that instead of just using the torrent there directly or the direct download from the servers? I don’t know it seems like overkill to use a debrid service for something like that.
For example, when I was a kid, I was always annoyed by how the photos I took of what I thought was a gorgeous landscape, and then developed the film (yes, I’m an old) it always looked horribly bland and drab.
Must have been terrible film (or was scanned/printed badly, or maybe poor development process). I found that most pictures I’ve taken digitally (before I got a modern higher quality digital camera) looked awful, but the ones I took on film look amazing and had better color depth than many of the earlier digital cameras and especially the digital cameras on phones. Of course modern digital cameras are much better both in color depth, resolution, and also less noise in the image, and since you can reuse the picture medium, which you can’t do with film (which can get expensive if you take a lot of pictures), they’re way worth it today.
I agree, it was the best way I could describe the behavior, since they think they are elites even though they absolutely are not.
I didn’t say ask them for a refund. I said get your money back. A chargeback is more than fair in this case considering their service is already or about to become worthless. Yeah they’ll probably ban the account but they don’t have the leverage anymore to threaten you not to do that because yet again, the service is worthless at this point.
So… angry downvote trolling/brigading?
I was mainly taking a jab at the original Kodi addons community which had a lot of very toxic and elitist people in it which would bully people for not wanting to buy, specifically, RealDebrid to use for addons which only work with RealDebrid. These people are very much screwed now because many of those addons were RealDebrid exclusive and are effectively broken because of it. They were warned about this many times before and they laughed at the people who warned them about this happening.
That is true. You can switch to a new provider, and hopefully there are some that won’t become unstable in the future.
Although in some cases of RealDebrid addiction/dependency like with Kodi addons which stupidly hard-code or otherwise only utilize RealDebrid they’ll just end up broken and no longer functional. Thankfully most cases are flexible and don’t cause that to happen, and also hopefully this event teaches addon devs to not be so dependent on a single service.
I agree that simple questions can have simple answers. I was simply trying to offer an explanation as to why other people might downvote comments like this. But it’s likely they aren’t being reasonable.
I don’t know, maybe people thought it was a lazy answer? People on Lemmy can be insanely unreasonable sometimes with how they vote content.
Which unfortunately has been the preferred way of doing it for a while. Hopefully people will learn and stop relying on it so much.
That is true, $20 isn’t much in this day and age. It’s not something you’re going to die over or be in trouble without. I would still do it mainly out of principle since I’d rather not help them along with one more payment like that. Of course I haven’t ever signed up for them, and I obviously never intend to now.
As I’ve said in other comments you can easily get your money back, probably would be worth it since it’s not like RD will be of much use once they start pulling cached files.
Considering that you actually haven’t pointed out how this list is inaccurate in this comment thread. Just said that people should keep using the service and paying for it, and that it’s not going away (service itself isn’t but the content it is used for is, making it useless), despite the fact that it will almost certainly begin to become much less useful due to the nature of this event. If you’re talking about the inclusion of AllDebrid OP has explained that they are within the same Jurisdiction as RealDebrid, a jurisdiction known to have powerful copyright trolls, and we’re not in the bussiness of telling people to use and pay for services that are basically guaranteed to leave people in the same situation as this one.
I think you being so hardcore in-denial of this crackdown despite the notice being from them officially is even more hilarious. What was done with addons that use RealDebrid is a workaround of API changes, if/when they delete/ban the infringing cached torrents this isn’t going to help.
I’m confident that you are a troll at this point. I don’t see how someone could look at their message and keep claiming RD is fine and “not going anywhere” in good faith.