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Real-Debrid Implements Extreme Anti-Piracy Filters to Appease Film Companies (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, says it's implementing far-reaching anti-piracy measures, including hash and keyword filters, in response to a notice from the French Federation of Film Distributors. The API and instantAvailability feature are set for deactivation too, while content from "notorious" pirate sites will be blocked.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I see, but couldn't they just sign up for a provider and then hook up their bots to the same search that you use? Or is the search obfuscated for you too? In other words how do they obfuscate it for the bots but not for the customers? That's what I never really understood - if the answer is just that the people running the bots are just too lazy to hook them up through the same unobfuscated search that paying customers use then that makes sense, but I always assumed there was more of a barrier since Usenet seems to have evaded legal action since forever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Usenet is almost always split rar files, and not all Usenet providers are in the same DMCA covered jurisdictions so instead of sending a takedown to one site you need to send a takedown for 100s of files and to dozens of providers. The takedown requests can often be rejected on the grounds that fjdjwofhxzzoajfnq.r01 isn't actually the offending copyright material claimed by the notice.

Its possible to do manually but that costs more money and a lot more time, almost all of the requests these days are automated using bots with very little human oversight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

They could and they will.