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Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

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Post by lewisflude »

cantbecool wrote: post #4
arnaud13 wrote: post #2

http://movies.io/ ? Sounds familiar?

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

Keep up the great work! I'm not sure about the serif fonts you've chosen though - maybe try a sans for the body text?

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

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Post by cantbecool »

lewisflude wrote: post #11
cantbecool wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

Keep up the great work! I'm not sure about the serif fonts you've chosen though - maybe try a sans for the body text?

I'll definitely consider changing around the CSS on the next deploy. Thanks for your input.

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

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Post by cantbecool »

rockyleal wrote: post #8
cantbecool wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

I like your spirit. Would you consider that there could be something similar to solve the disappearance of library.nu?

That actually sounds like a great idea. I have nothing but time at the moment (start-up I was working for recently laid me off) I will definitely consider a project along those lines. Thanks for the recommendation.

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

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Post by cantbecool »

chii wrote: post #15

can you talk about how you did the backend, and/or reveal any of the technical details?

Absolutely. Ruby on Rails 3.2.8, Postgres, theMoviedb.org for the movie information and pretty backgrounds, jQuery autocomplete for the insta search functionality, nokogiri gem for the magnet link scraping, and Google fonts.

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

#17

Post by nddrylliog »

cantbecool wrote: post #4
arnaud13 wrote: post #2

http://movies.io/ ? Sounds familiar?

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

movies.io founder here, I definitely said that in that podcast, but changed my mind since.

Going legit is too much trouble. The world of licensing is way too complex and antiquated - and we would've been forced to adopt DRM, which is a step back, in my opinion: http://amos.me/blog/2012/vision/

So, in short, movies.io's not going away, and yes we're keeping torrents.

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

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Post by mike-cardwell »

If anyone is interested, I've just written a small Grease Monkey plugin to convert the magnet urls to real torrent urls on moviemagnet.net and movies.io, thanks to torcache.net:

http://pastebin.ca/2205840

[EDIT] Updated pastebin URL to point to a new version which includes torrentbutler.eu and removes the jQuery dependency.

Re: Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

#20

Post by esonderegger »

nddrylliog wrote: post #17
cantbecool wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

movies.io founder here, I definitely said that in that podcast, but changed my mind since. Going legit is too much trouble. The world of licensing is way too complex and antiquated - and we would've been forced to adopt DRM, which is a step back, in my opinion: http://amos.me/blog/2012/vision/ So, in short, movies.io's not going away, and yes we're keeping torrents.

For those interested in a legit variation on this theme, check out http://www.moviepresto.com

Pretty much every movie out on video is available via one of the online platforms (currently iTunes, Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Redbox), but availability outside the US is still frustrating.

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