submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sasori323@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 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

[-] mestari@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Storage isn't nearly as expensive as it would seem looking at normal consumer cloud storage pricing. I think they also clear the cache of truly obscure content after a while. And I also think some of the "cached" content isn't even stored on their own servers, but is actually streamed from one of the 3rd party direct download services. That would ease the storage and traffic load massively.