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Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by franzus »

nl wrote: post #416
edw519 wrote: post #79

I don't know which I feel saddest about: 1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to. 2. That it quickly made it to #1 on Hacker News. 3. That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.

I agree, and I hate this. Even more though, I'm sad that people are forced into a position where they have to run unethical services if they want to build services like this. It is time content owners were forced to provide statutory licenses for streaming video content, just as they are forced to provide licenses for streaming audio.

It is time for home owners to give up their ownership and hand over their property to the people.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by nddrylliog »

paulovsk wrote: post #447
nddrylliog wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Passworded torrents? Dear god, where have you been? As for poor quality etc. here's our stance: by default, the first search result should be a release of 1) reasonable quality 2) reasonably well seeded. For power users, we're working on user settings to adjust your preferences for release groups, etc. Of course, working from a .avi/.mkv/.mp4 file would be optimal because we'd be able to get a lot of codec info from…

>"Passworded torrents? Dear god, where have you been?" That's actually pretty, pretty sad. Last week I've downloaded the most seeded torrent of the movie "In Time" and it came passworded. I got all surprised because it was THE MOST SEEDED.

Yeah, indeed.

Wow, I've only seen passworded rar files on, say, DDL. We gotta be careful about that, thanks for the heads up!

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by waterlesscloud »

nddrylliog wrote: post #432
waterlesscloud wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You will, of course, be making all code and all data you produce in your career publicly available as a torrent? If not, why not?

To quote one of my favorite personas on the internet: "You's trolling". I buy a lot of indie content, I hope that it helps them make a living. I'm currently contacting people to try and start a legal offer for indie content: apparently nobody got that right yes (if you know of any, let me know). As for sharing my code, part of it, yes, open-source has been very beneficial to the software industry in the past... 30-od…

Nope, not trolling. Just making a point.

All of your comments aside, your actions, not your words, indicate that you're completely happy making the fruits of other people's labor available for free.

You're not willing to do the same for your labor.

It's not at all "obvious" that what you want to do is make a Steam for movies, because that's not what you're doing.

If you want to enter into agreements to license the content easily and cheaply, then do so. That's not what you've done.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by nddrylliog »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #455
nddrylliog wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To quote one of my favorite personas on the internet: "You's trolling". I buy a lot of indie content, I hope that it helps them make a living. I'm currently contacting people to try and start a legal offer for indie content: apparently nobody got that right yes (if you know of any, let me know). As for sharing my code, part of it, yes, open-source has been very beneficial to the software industry in the past... 30-od…

Nope, not trolling. Just making a point. All of your comments aside, your actions, not your words, indicate that you're completely happy making the fruits of other people's labor available for free. You're not willing to do the same for your labor. It's not at all "obvious" that what you want to do is make a Steam for movies, because that's not what you're doing. If you want to enter into agreements to license the co…

Then again, I'm not exactly finished yet.

But I understand your point of view. Reading my other comments here would give a more complete overview of how I feel but I don't think many people have the patience to do that.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by denzil_correa »

nddrylliog wrote: post #41
denzil_correa wrote: post #39

A lot of torrent movie downloaders check for the "type of" print available - CamRip, Blue Ray RIP, DV RIP etc. It would be great if you could display these after the search goes through. It would make the movie download decision 1-click.

cf. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054667 Displaying by default would confuse lambda users. How would you solve it UX-wise?

I think you have almost already solved it [1]. You may think of having a pin tag with a small cross (while the mouse hovers). If you see, people clicking the crosses often it's a good feedback that the tag may be wrong. It can help you correct these tags if not appropriate.

In addition, you should also think about adding tags for CAM RIP, BR RIP, DVD RIP etc. Movie torrent downloaders do care about such information.

Disclaimer - I am a UI/UX autodidact.

[1] http://movies.io/m/4o

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by nddrylliog »

denzil_correa wrote: post #459
nddrylliog wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cf. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054667 Displaying by default would confuse lambda users. How would you solve it UX-wise?

I think you have almost already solved it [1]. You may think of having a pin tag with a small cross (while the mouse hovers). If you see, people clicking the crosses often it's a good feedback that the tag may be wrong. It can help you correct these tags if not appropriate. In addition, you should also think about adding tags for CAM RIP, BR RIP, DVD RIP etc. Movie torrent downloaders do care about such information.…

The crosses are a nice idea, although we'll be hard at work at improving our algorithm first (one guy in the team is fulltime on that) and see how it goes.

We'll try to get as much as we can right by default until we ask for help from users :)

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