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I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of torrents, MPAA often hops on to a tracker, doesn't send/receive any data, but all it does is log the public IPs of all peers on the tracker. Is this a problem with magnet downloads as well ?
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I think the film-industry should be inspired by this. If they offered something which is as easy to use and as good-looking as this, piracy will certainly decrease. Just put a "Pay here"-button before giving the user their download-link. Skip the DRM and the restrictions for different parts of the world and they'd have a killer-platform for selling their products. I am not saying that piracy isn't "unethical", but th…
If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io.
Why? torrentz.eu is more generic and works better on fuzzy searches. And I don't care that you parsed wikipedia. I've tried searching for some anime and it's not pretty, suggest offers you some transliterated or authentic japan which is confusing.
Torrentz.eu works better for everything else, obviously :)
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Wanted to clarify on: > Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it. To be, again, completely honest with you, no. If you could have that much exposure showing photos of shoes, we'd do it instead. I see it as... a start-up without the worry to make profi…
> We don't upload movies, we don't run a tracker, we don't belong to > any release groups: that's how not interested in piracy we are. That's like saying "We don't sell crystal meth, we're not distributors for crystal meth, we don't belong to any drug production groups, but our site helps kids obtain crystal meth from those who do: that's how not interested in crystal meth we are."
A better analogy might be a website that helps others circumvent the Great Firewall of China. It is illegal in one particular country, but circumvention does not harm individuals (only the society, one could argue). "We don't circumvent the wall, we don't run a proxy, we don't belong to tor: that's how not interested in circumventing the wall we are."
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Wanted to clarify on: > Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it. To be, again, completely honest with you, no. If you could have that much exposure showing photos of shoes, we'd do it instead. I see it as... a start-up without the worry to make profi…
I find your comment disingenuous. I cannot take you seriously when you argue that you are not "interested" in the very thing you enable and are focused on.
Warning to those at work, there's at least one NSFW image in rotation on the landing page.
Yup, sorry about that. The NSFW filter is off on our TMDb requests but apparently some go through regardless. The rotation is random from all movies in the db btw, not featured or anything.
you should add collections like can be found on whatcd and passthepopcorn[1] that users can link to and search [1] http://i.imgur.com/PXFRE.jpg
I don't know which I feel saddest about: 1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to. 2. That it quickly made it to #1 on Hacker News. 3. That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.
I think the film-industry should be inspired by this. If they offered something which is as easy to use and as good-looking as this, piracy will certainly decrease. Just put a "Pay here"-button before giving the user their download-link. Skip the DRM and the restrictions for different parts of the world and they'd have a killer-platform for selling their products. I am not saying that piracy isn't "unethical", but th…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the film-industry should be inspired by this. If they offered something which is as easy to use and as good-looking as this, piracy will certainly decrease. Just put a "Pay here"-button before giving the user their download-link. Skip the DRM and the restrictions for different parts of the world and they'd have a killer-platform for selling their products. I am not saying that piracy isn't "unethical", but th…
If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io.