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Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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Cool project but I'd rather not have to sign with Facebook/Twitter. Can you implement an alternative please?

We considered many different authentications and chose Facebook and Twitter because they make it really easy to show avatars of the people who sign. What alternatives would you suggest?

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Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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If I could watch content on Hulu, Netflix or other in Linux and I didn't want to throw myself in front of the lunatic-driven University bus, I'd be happy.

TPB -> "The Italian Job" + 3 hours = me happy. There is NO legal alternative for me. No, I'm not walking 30 miles to Best Buy to waste $30 on a DVD that won't play in my computer that doesn't have a DVD drive. And I don't consider running Win7 in a VM to be reasonable at all.

Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the context of downloading movies not buying is the same as "stealing".

Replace "stealing" with "watch it without paying".

You're entitled to watch organic bread without paying.

The problem with comparing content piracy with theft of physical objects is that the latter are scare and the former is not. I'm not trying to justify content piracy, I'm just saying that you-wouldn't-download-a-car analogies are invalid.

Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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I really don't like the "don't make me steal" attitude. It undermines a good society. The creators of this campaign decided that "Purchase should not exceed the cinema price." Really? What if we did that for, say, organic bread. "I won't buy organic bread unless it's x3 or less than the cost of the generic white bread. If it is more expensive, I'm entitled to steal it." Sorry folks, you're entitled to not buy it, not…

In the context of downloading movies not buying is the same as "stealing".

In the context of going out to dinner not buying is the same as "stealing".

I think we can do this all day.

Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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I don't think these are really fair to include in the criteria:

"I have access to the audio in every language that has been produced." and "Once I bought a movie, I can watch it in every available language."

Re: Don't Make Me Steal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We considered many different authentications and chose Facebook and Twitter because they make it really easy to show avatars of the people who sign. What alternatives would you suggest?

A simple registration form with some default avatars would be ideal, in my opinion.

Another factor was the really short time we had for development, so implementing those two allow us to cover the largest part of our target audience with a simple UI.
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