This looks similar to myriads of Chinese websites (not the design, but the selection of hit movies by cover art). Many Chinese sites serve up streaming videos directly in the browser. They are too slow to be usable abroad so I guess they avoid litigation that way.
Torrent meta-search engine
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#52"Takedown Policy Please include the full URLs to the infringing material; no categories or search queries. We follow the same takedown policy that Google uses." etc, etc OK. So basically: want to take down something? try go faster than ligth's speed... Funny
They are not infringing copyright. They make infringement easy.
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#53If this is all automated as they claim, that's a hell of a good job. Poster, length, rating, credits, synopsis and trailer, everything one could ask for. And then they throw a full-sized screencap as the page background. Brilliant.
It is a simple layer over http://themoviedb.org API with torrents added in.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Honest question, I have no idea. I haven't heard of hushmail in over 10 years, but I just encountered a guy I'll be working with that uses one, I honestly thought they shut down.
I worked at a place that used hushmail for the corporate email. It was a business account, so they had their own domain, but it was through hushmail. So I guess they are doing some business.
I don't quite get the point. If email security is important to you, you shouldn't be outsourcing it.
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#55From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big trackers and (conveniently) don't discriminate between illegal and legal content. I feel like when you are dropping torrents into buckets more specific than "video" and "audio" (e.g. link…
Hosted in Canada (netelligent.ca) might buy them some time...
Not at all. The same people that complained that Canadian laws are too weak to sue Canadian trackers somehow have managed to sue isoHunt.
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#56damn you [developer of this], had this idea pending for the longest time. yeah, I know this crowd knows this line too much.
Anyway, my approach would be different by a single feature: movie sync. I've already watched many of the movies listed, and would be great to give you my imdb rating public url and you filtering those out. You could even implement a basic recommendation system using my ratings to give best matches.
Hope you can keep this service up.
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#57This will be taken down sooner or later, while no legal alternatives¹ exist in many countries. Ridiculous. Movie industry: Okay, apparently you don't want my money, that's fine, but then please don't complain about piracy. [1] Cross-platform, HD quality, easy to use, etc.
I would pay to watch movies recently released on cinema. I mean, why the heck do I need to go to cinema when I have the comforts of my home and I'm alone at the moment?
Basically, the Academy Awards rules are the only reason this can't happen. If you enter the video/dvd/download stage too fast, you don't qualify for the Academy Awards.
http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/83aa_rules....
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#58This really should be a desktop app rather than a website. That way, it couldn't be taken down, especially if the code was open sourced.
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#59Would be extra cool with some sort of "sort by IMDB-rating"-function attached
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would pay to watch movies recently released on cinema. I mean, why the heck do I need to go to cinema when I have the comforts of my home and I'm alone at the moment?
Basically, the Academy Awards rules are the only reason this can't happen. If you enter the video/dvd/download stage too fast, you don't qualify for the Academy Awards. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/83aa_rules....
If that were the only reason, any films that were not academy award contenders would go to video/dvd/download immediately...