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Popcorn Time Is Back
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#62With 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…
If I remember rightly, you can use Popcorn Time to stream any torrent simply by dragging and dropping the link into the application. It doesn't depend on where you get the links, even if it does have a default search engine. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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#63Earlier 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
So either rent a server in some country that doesn’t recognize copyright law, or uproot your entire life and move there? Why would anyone choose the second option?
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#64Weird title... how about "is back on Android" or something.
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#65Awh this brings me back. I was a large contributor to the desktop version of this incarnation of PT, focusing on the ability to play on external applications and Chromecasts and also adding TV Shows. I remember having such a eureka moment when I finally figured out how to get subtitles working when streaming live to a Chromecast
> get subtitles working when streaming live to a Chromecast Teach me your ways, sensei.
Not Popcorn Time, but I've had great experience using Airflow (airflow.app) for streaming video to Chromecast. Among other things, it handles subtitles quite well.
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#66Earlier 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
with popcorn you are simultaneously distributing, and that is the main problem
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#67With 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.
I think PTP is somewhat doable, but it will take some years to get there. BTN is impossible unless you know people. Both are overkill for your average media needs and it makes no sense for most people to work that effort. TPB/BTDigg has pretty much everything you could want and usenet still exists without all the ratio/maintenance hassle. The Plex Servers are a good alternative if you want convenience. My feeling is that the tracker community is getting smaller and smaller. The new generation is more in the google-drive abusing camp, although there is some activity still on p2p. Just my 2cents from the small insight that I have.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
simply handing out invites gets you in trouble. If you know the other guy, he may invite you, but otherwise you should go with the official interview process (https://interviewfor.red). Also checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenSignups to find some small entry trackers.. gain some reputation by being a good citizen on those. Take screenshots of your account stats every now and then. Then you can try asking for an invites to other trackers by providing your stats and stuff. The tracker communities are small and have to look out for each other. If you have no record whatsoever, the trust is too small to be invited. Also you risk your own account by inviting random people. There is also orpheus, an alternative to red that is a bit easier to get into.
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#69Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.
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#70This 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?
You can query trackers and DHT for torrents, and they return a bunch of IPs that are seeding/downloading the torrent. And then, as an ISP, you can combine IPs to subscriptions.
Check out this website that does the IP querying part for you: