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A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.
He has a picture, but it's not particularly distinctive, and the name could just be a pseudonym.
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…
Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol.
Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit.
Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network but this has led many to be unwitting uploaders - which is what they got done for.
Jammie Thomas is a case in point, newb music fan (or her kids I recall) but the sharing by default is what she was convicted of - for $30,000,000.
No one has ever been convicted of downloading alone - they don't bother trying.
So seeding by default can be very cruel - sadly.
Even with that caveat, those like Jammie, brought up on Sesame Street were taught to share and don't know how severe tne penalties can be.
That sharing is or can be wrong is now taught at a nursery level.
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…
This could be true, however I think that if all this torrent streaming sticks to same behavior such as that of XBMC torrent [1] (i.e. streaming for the whole duration of the movie) the swarm will end up stronger, not weaker. [1] https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent/blob/e6bcb1037668959e1...
Supposedly long seed intervals will not help the swarm in that case.
When are we as a community going to stop cheekily "tolerating" piracy and finally stand up against the unjust and immoral lie that is the concept of intellectual property rights? When you can tell me who owns the number two, I can tell you who owns a song. It's not just "I want movies without paying" posturing. Culture is reuse and remixing. Half of internet culture these days comes from V, from Tyler Durden, from Th…
This doesn't work for me, because http://thepiratebay.se is hardcoded in the code and that mirror is blocked in my location. I filed an issue. https://github.com/weslleyaraujo/pirateflix/issues/3
Or maybe they could use [Node.js core DNS]( https://nodejs.org/api/dns.html#dns_dns_setservers_servers ) module to resolve the domain, setting something like [censurfridns]( http://www.censurfridns.dk/ ) as a temporary server. I think this module is very immoral, however, so I'm not going to contribute...
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…
Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol. Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit. Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network bu…
Dislike this kind of story appearing in HN. We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies, not using our talent to rip them off. I'd hate to see HN develop a bad reputation because of stuff like this.
Sometimes it's never available, especially english shows that is only broadcasted on english tv channels.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This could be true, however I think that if all this torrent streaming sticks to same behavior such as that of XBMC torrent [1] (i.e. streaming for the whole duration of the movie) the swarm will end up stronger, not weaker. [1] https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent/blob/e6bcb1037668959e1...
Suppose there is only one seeder and 2-3 leechers. All leechers managed to get 50+%. Now, if the seeder disappears, the leechers should be able to finish the download from each other. If all initial leechers are streamers, that download will never finish for them or anyone else. Supposedly long seed intervals will not help the swarm in that case.
In reality, there are 100+ seeders and if you had a constant supply of streamers who spend half their time seeding (assuming they download the whole movie by the 50% mark), then you have a very very healthy swarm.
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…
Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol. Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit. Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network bu…
Dislike this kind of story appearing in HN. We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies, not using our talent to rip them off. I'd hate to see HN develop a bad reputation because of stuff like this.
That's exactly what I would tell Apple when movies that I want to watch are not available in the German iTunes or just as a dubbed version.