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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: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
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…
How do you know it's not a law enforcement honeypot?
Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…
I don't really see why the same code can't be used for both - it seems such a waste of effort to rebuild everything twice for the only slightly different usecases.
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> get subtitles working when streaming live to a Chromecast Teach me your ways, sensei.
My code still exists in the desktop source[1] but essentially what you need to do is convert an srt to vtt [2] file and start a local http server that will serve the VTT file [3] and point the Chromecast to that [1] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev... [2] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev... [3] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev..…
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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.
in practice it maybe a good thing that mistakes are made
If popcorn time would also add streaming of live events functionality, they would completely capture the old acestream market that would still be interested.
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Good private trackers can be hard to get into and easy to get kicked out of. That's probably why you don't hear many people on HN promoting then.
It's not terribly hard to find virtually anything you're looking for even on plain old public Pirate Bay.
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My code still exists in the desktop source[1] but essentially what you need to do is convert an srt to vtt [2] file and start a local http server that will serve the VTT file [3] and point the Chromecast to that [1] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev... [2] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev... [3] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev..…
Isn't it possible to "burn" the subtitles on to the video file somehow, maybe with ffmpeg? So they're there permanently.
Also, it can be definitely done with ffmpeg.
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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: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
My local ISP uses CGNAT so I guess that page lists what my neighbors are downloading. So many porns.
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…
> There is almost no need to use any VPN service on these sites. How do you know it's not a law enforcement honeypot?
I get paranoia; I am the obsessive and compulsive person who literally feels physically gross and uncomfortable if I am not running FDE, etc. I feel that way because I don't like even the idea that someone could be snooping where I don't want them to be. In that sense, everyone has their own tolerance for risk, preferred levels of privacy, etc. I will never judge anyone for being cautious, but I still think a lot of it is still paranoia.
For the average person who doesn't want to receive another abuse report this month because they don't want their ISP to terminate their service, private trackers do tend to solve that part of the VPN equation, at least.