Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by lawgimenez » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 1:47 AM UTC

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

#2

Post by soared » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

#3

Post by donkarma » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:35 AM UTC

Would love to see integration for this in media servers, or even Sonarr/Radarr integration for on-demand films and such

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by inoffensivename » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

I thought this was the POP-CORN phone number, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_clock, now I definitely feel old

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by bragr » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

How did that work? Did they monitor the swarms? Fingerprint the chunks?

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by bawolff » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:02 AM UTC

bragr wrote: post #5

soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

How did that work? Did they monitor the swarms? Fingerprint the chunks?

Movie studio hires company to monitor bittorrent trackers/dht, send letter to isp, isp forwards the letter to you (legally required in some juridsictions, e.g. canada)

In many cases this is a pgp signed xml document, which is bizarre as i have no idea what an average person would make of that.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by senectus1 » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:03 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

I always got very amused when i got these letters... the stuff they claimed my IP had downloaded, was definitely not downloaded on my network.

rotating IP addresses made the warnings pointless.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by asdff » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

It's been back. I don't think it ever left? There's been a couple recent updates but I wish they would give the desktop build some more attention to ux. I open it and it makes my computer unresponsive for a minute or two before the application window appears and lets me do things beyond wiggling my cursor across the otherwise frozen screen. The reddit link on the github page also still points to the old banned subreddit instead of the current one.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by depressedpanda » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:11 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

The desktop app can be found here: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by lawgimenez » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:14 AM UTC

asdff wrote: post #8

It's been back. I don't think it ever left? There's been a couple recent updates but I wish they would give the desktop build some more attention to ux. I open it and it makes my computer unresponsive for a minute or two before the application window appears and lets me do things beyond wiggling my cursor across the otherwise frozen screen. The reddit link on the github page also still points to the old banned subred…

I’m currently digging their Android source code and it is so outdated that it sent out a warning to upgrade the project’s gradle plugin from 3.5.* to 7.*.