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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by throwaway5371 »

whimsicalism wrote: post #39
senectus1 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> rotating IP addresses made the warnings pointless. Your ISP knows which IP you have and when.

most ISPs dont, having many dhcp servers and not having developers is not completely trivial to parse the logs and put in some database, or just add some tooling to isc-dhcpd

RIPE makes it basically mandatory to use dhcp in order to recive ip space, even though in most places it is completely useless since 2010, you save maybe 5% because literally nobody turns off their routers

also of course because there is no ip space now, admins put small lease times like 1 hour, or sometimes even less, so you have constant influx of logs and updates

i can imagine those scripts are buggy, misread timestamps and etc

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by alexb_ »

OmarAssadi wrote: post #35

With the demographics of HN and some of the topics that come up often (e.g., Linux, privacy, nostalgia for old-school forums, weird little micro-optimizations of peoples' lifestyles to achieve the "best" possible way to do a certain thing, etc.), I have always been a little bit surprised to see quite how many people personally use tools like Popcorn Time and how little mention of some forms of filesharing there is. I…

Because in order to become a part of a private tracker, you have to know someone personally who is also a part of a quality private tracker and trusts you enough to give you access without triggering a tree ban from one untrustworthy actor.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by EnKopVand »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #16
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.

If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.

This is good advice, but it should probably be extended by saying that the VPN you chose matters. At least around here many VPN are just as inclined to share your internet usage with law enforcement and/or the law firms sending out those letters as ISPs are.

So you gotta make sure you use a VPN that doesn’t out you to the authorities, and, can’t be made to do so.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by prvit »

OmarAssadi wrote: post #35

With the demographics of HN and some of the topics that come up often (e.g., Linux, privacy, nostalgia for old-school forums, weird little micro-optimizations of peoples' lifestyles to achieve the "best" possible way to do a certain thing, etc.), I have always been a little bit surprised to see quite how many people personally use tools like Popcorn Time and how little mention of some forms of filesharing there is. I…

Yeah, good luck getting into PTP or BTN now without putting in hundreds of hours of work into it (and even then, probably not gonna happen).

There’s a reason those accounts sell for upwards of $500

Best bet for most people is finding a plex server with access to these sites.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by Bayart »

OmarAssadi wrote: post #35

With the demographics of HN and some of the topics that come up often (e.g., Linux, privacy, nostalgia for old-school forums, weird little micro-optimizations of peoples' lifestyles to achieve the "best" possible way to do a certain thing, etc.), I have always been a little bit surprised to see quite how many people personally use tools like Popcorn Time and how little mention of some forms of filesharing there is. I…

I stopped caring for private trackers after the few I was invested in closed down, and it's pretty high maintenance. Nowadays public trackers are pretty much enough for everything I'm looking for.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by baby »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #16
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.

If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.

Has anyone ever been fined or dropped by their ISPs though? I must have got like 5 letters for downloading movies and nothing else ever happened.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by deltaonefour »

kyruzic wrote: post #36
stjohnswarts wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.

Or just live somewhere where consuming copyrighted content isn't a crime

Yeah or change the laws everywhere so copyright isn't a crime. Easy peasy.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by endorphine »

OmarAssadi wrote: post #50
endorphine wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide some examples of such private trackers that you'd recommend? I'm mostly interested in music.

Redacted ("RED") is probably the best place to be nowadays for general music. It is where the majority of people ended up after What.CD, one of the earlier trackers, closed. They have a ton of lossless audio, and you generally have choice in terms of which version of something you would like (e.g., an older release, if you don't like the remasters [1], or want specific deluxe/international editions -- Japanese CDs of…

Great, thanks for sharing. Any chance you have an invite for RED?
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