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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by stjohnswarts »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #43
whimsicalism wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a seedbox.

PopcornTime is an app that lets you stream torrents as they're downloading, so a seedbox-like setup probably wouldn't be viable for this.

Yep you would have to set up a robosync with your seedbox over sftp or something similar.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by permo-w »

toyg wrote: post #172
permo-w wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

evidence for this?

Digital Economy Act 2017 increased the already-existing penalties to max 10 years in prison for copyright infringement - which you technically commit every time you fire up BitTorrent without blocking upload. The same act (and its predecessor 2010 bill) compels ISPs with over 400k subscribers (i.e. all the big ones) to monitor subscribers for such activity. Then you have stuff like this: https://www.digitaltveurope.c…

if we've had laws such as that since 2017, and they were being enforced, you would have heard of people getting sentences, or even fines, right?

surely you can find stronger evidence than the police taking the unprecedented step of contacting - contacting, not arresting, or fining - a few tens of thousand in one region of the country?

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Post by spurgu »

depressedpanda wrote: post #9
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

Does this work on Mac M1? I tried a couple of days ago and IIRC it segfaulted.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by VistaBrokeMyPC »

xnyanta wrote: post #137
Jhsto wrote: post #73

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…

Check out Prowlarr, it's much nicer and more feature-complete than Jackett.

+1 for prowlarr. Used to run jackett but I much prefer the automatic updating of *rr services when I change my indexer settings in prowlarr. Currently running prowlarr with sonarr, radarr, lidarr, bazarr (for subtitle fetching) all from a single docker-compose file, no complaints.

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Post by npteljes »

anacrolix wrote: post #173
TechBro8615 wrote: post #115

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There’s a Defcon talk circa 2013 about crawling DHTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQrNoCwxgE

There's also magnetico: http://magnetico.org/

I just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project?

"Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite."

https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by elcomet »

mod wrote: post #24
elcomet wrote: post #15

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In France it's an offence to not configure securely your network if there's some illegal stuff happening on it. You are held responsible for any downloads on your own network.

That must be tough on the ISPs.

ISPs are not held responsible

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Post by Rerarom »

npteljes wrote: post #187
anacrolix wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also magnetico: http://magnetico.org/

I just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project? "Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite." https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

I don't get a rickroll, I get a redirect to the address you posted.
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