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Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by ollysb »

3327 wrote: post #11

i think this community is the last place for this. I have the sense most people can figure out a torrent download and get it running. Weren't people actually able to download files and open the in the early 2000? OR has that become a resume skill too ? "Can download and run files"

The subtitles feature is a huge win for me. My partner is Spanish speaking so every film we watch requires a hunt through various subtitles sites(not being able to use srt files with likes the of iTunes is also a major issue when paying for films). Of course I know how to do it but it's one of those things that has really made we wish there was a good quality commercial offering(I'd be very happy to pay something like $70/month for a spotify type service).

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by yukichan »

sergiotapia wrote: post #29
3327 wrote: post #11

i think this community is the last place for this. I have the sense most people can figure out a torrent download and get it running. Weren't people actually able to download files and open the in the early 2000? OR has that become a resume skill too ? "Can download and run files"

Disagree COMPLETELY. I can waste time hunting down the file I need, or someone can build something fantastic to use. Hell, when I was a youngin' I wrote FastFlick to make MY life easier. We as hackers are always striving to make things simpler for everyone, but most importantly for ourselves. http://fastflick.blogspot.com/

Your use of capitalization is completely unnecessary. I think a better convention might be to use single stars like completely or double stars like completely but the moment I see letters in all caps I just automatically disregard whatever it is that person is saying.

Edit: HN doesn't seem to know what to do with double stars.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by ultramancool »

d23 wrote: post #44

> Downloading copyrighted material may be illegal in your country. Use at your own risk. Have we seriously just stopped considering the ethical implications of such things? At least these sorts of sites used to pretend they were for things like "public domain movies" and "personal backups."

They only created a tool. Tools can be used for many purposes. I can smash someone in the skull with a hammer or I can use it for construction. Similarly, should the Tor, PGP, Bitcoin, etc authors consider that their tools could be used for malice and stop because of it? Tools are tools, they are simply implementations of what is possible with technology. Tools are inherently grey, not some simple black and white. It's about what you do with them.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by w1ntermute »

sergiotapia wrote: post #32
_tb wrote: post #24

This was made here in Argentina, we don't think that much of legal issues here.

Exactly, good luck to the RIAA goons trying to mess with South Americans.

They can just pay off the politicians to throw the developers in jail.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by shawabawa3 »

zanny wrote: post #42
nikolak wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not streaming, this is just torrenting and it includes uploading. The only difference between this and other torrent clients is that it downloads torrent files sequentially by default and opens the file as soon as you have enough data to start watching. From the FAQ: Popcorn Time works using torrents, fair enough. Am I seeding while watching a movie? Indeed, you are. You're going to be uploading bits and bits…

This is what (sadly) puts a hole in the concept. Because most of the tyrant ISPs don't provide symmetric connections, you are never going to maintain a 1.0 ratio throughout a viewing, so you depend on seed boxes to keep the download demands from crippling popular videos. Unless they add a daemon option to keep seeding when not using the app, users are always leechers.

Not necessarily. It doesn't matter how much faster your download speed is as long as your upload speed is fast enough to "reverse stream". i.e. for a 700mb 1h40 movie your upload speed needs to be ~120kB/s, which most people have now (at least in the UK)

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by qiemem »

watty wrote: post #47
clienthunter wrote: post #40

This seems waaaaaayyy too polished in all respects for an app designed to break the law. I would not be at all surprised if those prebuilt binaries were sending your details off to the MPAA.

The MPAA already has the ability to view torrent seeds, why would they waste so much resources to create this?

Honeypot, but that doesn't hold up since torrenting movies is so wide spread already.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by sergiotapia »

yukichan wrote: post #63
sergiotapia wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree COMPLETELY. I can waste time hunting down the file I need, or someone can build something fantastic to use. Hell, when I was a youngin' I wrote FastFlick to make MY life easier. We as hackers are always striving to make things simpler for everyone, but most importantly for ourselves. http://fastflick.blogspot.com/

Your use of capitalization is completely unnecessary. I think a better convention might be to use single stars like completely or double stars like completely but the moment I see letters in all caps I just automatically disregard whatever it is that person is saying. Edit: HN doesn't seem to know what to do with double stars.

Thanks for LETTING me KNOW?

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by ry0ohki »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #52
humanfromearth wrote: post #45

If you look at this file here: https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/blob/master/js/t... It sends usage data to Google Analytics. I can see how this can translate into you getting caught. Be careful. Even if you don't have a 'trackingId' set it still sends GET requests to http://google.com/

Add this to your /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com

Noooooooooo (An analytics junkie)

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

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Post by Touche »

laacz wrote: post #54
snippyhollow wrote: post #23

XBMC torrent has been out there for a while http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 It's free software https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent and uses libtorrent-rasterbar through https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go

Yes, but this one aims for nice interface and simplicity - install and start watching. For people who are not tech savy this app will win.

People who are not tech savvy want to watch movies on a television or a tablet, not a PC.
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