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?

  • Elektrotechnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just looked into it briefly and you’re right, there seems to have been some development:

    Full text: https://www.juraforum.de/news/boersebz-direct-downloads-verletzen-urheberrechte_247270

    Translation: Criminal liability of the downloader

    However, users who download this data also infringe copyrights if it is obvious to a reasonable and fair-minded person that the public presentation (the offer on the servers of the one-click hoster) is made without the permission of the actual rights holder. This is certainly the case if, for example, a film is offered before its theatrical release. However, the obviousness should also be given after the theatrical release, since no one can expect a film production company to make its films available free of charge on servers of one-click hosts.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

    It also states that downloaders are currently not being pursued, because it is too difficult to prove.