Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

Post by qb45 » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #30

sneak wrote: post #23

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…

It should be noted that rms has some misgivings about simply reducing or eliminating copyright: "How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software" ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.en.html )

Post by amadvance » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:09 PM UTC

MoSal wrote: post #9

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…

Post by colejohnson66 » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

stegosaurus wrote: post #104

diskcat wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought about downloading all the youtube videos that I consider have future watching values but then i realised it would take way too much effort and storage space to download and tag/categorise them and that there is no limit to my hoarding tendency.

It's more videos I've already seen. I find it absurd that I can have a copy of a video in my brain, but potentially not be able to show it to someone else. It feels like an arbitrary limitation on knowledge transfer. If we had brain-computer interfaces I could just push my (analog fuzzy) version out into the screen again! Tagging and categorization can be fixed later. I generally find grep -i a good enough solution.

Post by imtringued » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

cbeach wrote: post #142

zdkl wrote: post #138

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Oh make no mistake I am contemplating piracy if only because it's unfair/immoral/irrational (pick your favourite) that the people securing themselves such huge income are the keyholders to almost all legal distribution of media. We need a Richard Stallman for media. (edit: added 'legal')

So you steal from people and then claim they're immoral for not giving you their stuff at a price/convenience level of your choosing?

Post by leshow » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

dkopi wrote: post #6

It seems a lot of the magic behind this comes from Peerflix - a node.js library for streaming torrents. This is mostly a CLI wrapper for searching piratebay, parsing the results, and then streaming using peerflix. https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead: https://github.com/t3chnoboy/thepiratebay That said, great usage of cheerio for parsing the returned HTML…