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Yeah see I wouldn’t expect that sort of services from something that’s supposed to manage downloads though.
I’m not going to trust software that’s in charge of downloading my content, doing xyz to it and returning it to me.
Now for the steaming portion, I can do this same thing, with plex. So I still don’t understand what value is being added besides one layer of obfuscation to your identity. Where are these servers hosted, do they have to comply with international regulations and global legal compliance? I bet they do and it’s just a matter of time that they go down and every other IP they have info on with it too.
Just my 2c
It very much depends on the provider, same as VPNs.
Something you cant do with PLEX though, is real time streaming with zero storage necessary.
Yeah, again - just not something that’s needed for me and the risk that’s posed by allowing a 3rd party to act as an intermediary for your files is a great way to get infected.
This streaming part also seems nice, but I personally don’t need to watch something as soon as I find it if I just need to wait a couple hours or create a backlog of shows to dl while I’m doing other stuff.
The only reason I’m especially hesitant of this is because it’s unnecessary risk, this seems like a product for young people and the inexperienced which is who threat actors target
I mean, if you're concerned that malware is going to be injected into your video files… Who’s to say your torrents aren’t already infected?
And yeah, to an extent it requires less knowledge, but the WAF is much higher on a “watch it now” platform than a “I want to watch this let me add it to a queue to watch it later” platform.
I’m also a fan of the fact that I don’t need to dedicate storage to what is essentially a single use file.
But to each their own, of course.
Oooo that’s a really good point I hadn’t thought about although I’m sure you could setup an auto purge of old torrents pretty easily with whatever language you’d like.
Also an excellent point about the initial source possibly being malicious but I did want to bring up the counterpoint that the torrent portion is inherently risky but this service would be adding additional risk on top of that
I can see the use for a real-time torrent streamer but the download management portion just screams adware, Trojan, etc which are only getting worse and nastier as the days go by.