Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (9to5google.com)

>SeedBox Lite is an open-source project provided for educational and personal use only. We do not endorse, promote, or facilitate copyright infringement, illegal streaming, or piracy in any form. This software is designed to be used with legal content only.

I always find legal disclaimers like this funny. It's like kindergarteners giving each other cootie shots. Just some magic words said out of some combination of tradition and hope that they might have some actual protective qualities. "Who cares if the words are objectively untrue? We have plausible deniability now that we said them!"

gouggoug · 27m ago

> "Who cares if the words are objectively untrue? We have plausible deniability now that we said them!"

But they are not "objectively untrue". You can argue all day long that you don't believe the author are being truthful, it doesn't make it true.

edit: that being said, in juxtaposition with a copyrighted Marvel image, I could see it being used in court against the author to prove they were all along catering to piracy.

edit2: clearly, I'm not a lawyer

mystifyingpoi · 1h ago

This is beautiful and hillarious. A disclaimer at the very bottom of the page who no one will ever notice. A huge colorful screenshot of the newest Marvel movie at the very top of the page everyone will see immediately.

Great.

Dinux · 35m ago

While showing an image of Disney IP

tshaddox · 9m ago

Wait until you see the terms of service documents your corporate lawyer will tell you that you need in the footer of your website.

progbits · 3h ago

Aren't these torrent clients bad for the swarm? Requesting chunks in sequence and probably not sticking around to seed. Do they at least seed while watching?

diggan · 3h ago

> Do they at least seed while watching?

Considering there is a file called "verify-no-uploads.js" ((https://github.com/hotheadhacker/seedbox-lite/blob/6a89d1974...)) in the repository, which contains "This script monitors network activity to ensure zero uploads", it seems to me like they're actively trying to just be leechers.

Seattle3503 · 2h ago

Sometimes I think private trackers are too uptight about ratios and hit-and-run rules, then I see something like this.

TuringTest · 1h ago

Wouldn't an app like this stop working after a few uses?

As I understand, the protocol penalizes users that don't contribute to the upstream, although I never checked the details.

Or do this kind of app keep changing the identity to avoid getting downgraded? Does Stremio work like this too?

neckro23 · 1h ago

Outside of a private tracker (which takes measures to keep random untracked peers from getting on the torrent), not really. Individual seeder clients can detect bad behavior like leeching and ban by IP, but each torrent is likely to have a different seeding pool.

So the penalty is mostly just on individual torrents. Of course, trying to pull something like this on a private tracker would get you banned real fast...

zolland · 2h ago

Using "Seedbox" in the name is very misleading then... I would have been excited to see a Stremio style alternative that actually downloads and seeds content for an extended period of time.

toomuchtodo · 2h ago

If you're not uploading, you're not infringing/pirating (in some jurisdictions).

owjofwjeofm · 3h ago

Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching

craftkiller · 27m ago

In this context the word "leeching" has a specific meaning. In bittorrent, "leeching" is downloading, "seeding" is uploading. With a normal torrent client, every download has you starting as a leecher (downloader) and becoming a seeder (uploader), but this client skips that 2nd part.

lawlessone · 3h ago

>Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching

Actually i'm just collecting data to train an AI

MurkyLabs · 3h ago

well officers I see nothing illegal being done here, case closed

ddtaylor · 2h ago

This is awesome for some use cases, but the problem with having it replace my Jellyfin + qbittorrent + vpn setup is that Jellyfin is available on many smart TVs such as Roku or LG.

u8080 · 3h ago

Leech client, add to blacklists.

password4321 · 2h ago

Should be called "not-a-seedbox"

xaindume · 2h ago

Or "leechbox"

adithyassekhar · 1h ago

I'm looking through the frontend code, I mainly work with react and vite, same as this project.

It was refreshing to see a plain standard vite initial setup used as is but the way authentication is handled makes it feel like it's all AI generated. It does the standard authprovider, useauth setup all AI tools give with the same variable names

mystifyingpoi · 1h ago

It definitely is. No human would write a Dockerfile with absolutely useless comments like:

  # Copy source code
  COPY . .

  # Expose port
  EXPOSE 3001

Though, the question is... so what? It is open source. Who cares who/what wrote it.

craftkiller · 23m ago

> No human would write a Dockerfile with absolutely useless comments like:

One small correction: no human with more than a passing familiarity with Dockerfiles would write those comments, But I've definitely seen humans learning Docker for the first time write useless comments almost exactly like that. Especially if their coworkers have given them a list of what they need the Dockerfile to do.

adithyassekhar · 1h ago

Maybe my message came a bit too negative, AI is fine. The scope of this app is incredible regardless.

I've only just began working on these things. Just curious to see what other methods people use to do auth than the same thing all tutorials do. Expected to learn something and got disappointed that's all.

gaowanliang · 2h ago

Over a decade ago, there was a software in China called "Kuaibo(快播, meaning 'Fast Playback')", which offered a similar service. But different from it, Kuaibo had its own server, which allowed users to stream torrent videos very quickly. Eventually, the company was shut down due to copyright and porn issues.

Eldt · 1h ago

I know of a few of these types of services operating in Europe presently

IceWreck · 4h ago

Does it download torrents on your server or web torrent on your browser? - the readme really doesn't say.

Imo downloading on the server is more useful. Web torrent is great but I don't think it's very practical in many places.

koakuma-chan · 3h ago

Why does this need a server? Isn't the point to be able to add a torrent and start watching immediately?

immibis · 2h ago

Browsers can't make torrent connections, or any others for that matter. Except for HTTP and WebRTC.

WebTorrent is a hack to run torrent protocol over WebRTC, but obviously it only connects to other WebTorrent programs and not to normal torrent programs. I think PeerTube uses it.

koakuma-chan · 2h ago

It could be a desktop app :shrug:

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