You don’t need a VPN with Torrentio + Real Debrid. You are not torrenting - they already torrented it for you, and you are streaming the cached file directly from the RD servers. I think the only “catch” is that it’s not free (obviously) so I don’t think you can call it “free lunch” lol. Torrentio addon specifically scrapes the debrid service - now, if you were to install, say, TPB addon for Stremio, it would be torrenting, so you don’t want to do that without a VPN.

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Thank you for the heads up! Haven’t quite figured out usenet yet (never used it before) but will at some point.

My VPN comes out to about $2/month (got a promotional offer). What other service, exactly, can I buy for 2 dollars?

Maybe on some trackers you have to resort to these cheats, I don’t know. On many private trackers, you get bonus points just for seeding a torrent - doesn’t matter if anyone downloads from you, the points just accumulate hourly. Then you exchange the points for upload, which counts toward your ratio just like it would if you had physically uploaded that amount.

If you download a partial torrent, it will never count as full 100%, which means the 10-day rule doesn’t apply. You would have to physically upload the amount that you downloaded for it to hit the 1:1 ratio. Which could be next to impossible to do. Unless you absolutely have no disk space or something, just download the full torrent, even if you only want a few episodes (especially when it’s freeleech).

You can read their rules ahead of time, they have a Wiki that’s freely available without a login (just google for “torrentleech wiki”). The 10-day minimum duration doesn’t have to be consecutive. For example, on TL it would take you 50 hit-and-run torrents that you stopped seeding for 5 days to get a warning that can potentially affect your acount. It’s really not hard to steer clear of that.

Which downloader do you prefer?