Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped using it because I figured if everyone did this and stopped sharing torrents, neither would work

It's kinda selfish

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The LARPers on c/Piracy are finally taking a break from shouting 'high seas' and discovering the tragedy of the commons!

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The so-called "tragedy of the commons" is an invention out of nowhere by a white supremacist

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It can be a reductive approach if you look at the world exclusively through those glasses, but the effect the expression alludes to exists in very specific circumstances e.g. street cleaning, overfishing, pollution. It's like saying overpopulation is not a thing because that social darwinist Malthus was the first to refer to it.

[–] farcical_continuation@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad example. Malthus was wrong and only kept getting more wrong as time passed

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm comparing Malthus' overpopulation to a white supremacist who supposedly invented the tragedy of commons. Sounds similar. Overpopulation can happen in some societies e.g. Easter Island, but is not everywhere the cause of most ills.