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Too late. Their database is hosted somewhere online and now gone.
Strange. Just worked fine for me.
No, it does not anymore, just spins. Mine also says Popcorn time Goodbye was just released you should get it now!
Goodbye Popcorn Time
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#62Mine does not work anymore, just spins. Mine also says Popcorn time Goodbye was just released you should get it now!
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#63Well, this is disappointing. It seemed like a nicely designed application, with an enthusiastic development team behind it. And now, within days, it's gone. If they wanted to avoid piracy, I think it might have had some potential going the legal route as well. It would be a nice interface to browse legal movies, documentaries, web series, etc. Strange decision, I could see a company like Netflix buying them out for a…
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#64> Popcorn Time as a project is legal. We checked.
The law isn't quite so black and white. There are a lot of different theories good lawyers can come up with. At the end of the day, the only thing that's legal is what a court says is legal.
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#65> We became the underdog that would fight for the consumer.
That's like saying "Sure, we burned down the bank, but we did it for the frustrated account holders."
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#66Did anyone believe that Popcorn Time was going to end any other way than this? Either they were going to be shut down by their own choice, or their hand would be forced by outside litigation. Just because something is legal doesn't mean companies won't spend millions of dollars to make your life miserable because of what you built.
Is it surprising that an appication used to stream torrents, is primarily used for piracy? No, no it's not, and this is why I'm scratching my head. They knew from day one, before they wrote a single line of code that the application would be used for pirating movies. For this reason, I assumed they had a plan, because surely no sane development team would put forth the time to setup this project, and then act surprised at the first legal threat, and close up shop.
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Hah I predicted this 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379904 Just because your product is legal, but mainly used for illegal purposes really opens you up to a lot of issues. They should have expected this was coming.
It'd be interesting to see what percentage of use cases were for "legal purposes"
I doubt it would be more than zero.
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#69It doesn't matter. The code is already out there.
Respectfully, I think the authors didn't think much and were kinda dumb. The project had a great potential, it was barely legal, they bought a fight with the media industry, but the cherry-on-top is that they putted their asses on the line. They shouldn't have used their real names. Anonymise your accounts and be happy.
But as I said, it doesn't matter. Everyone already has a fork of their repo (which has over 70 open pull-requests) and any one of these forks may become the new "official". It won't stop. The gears are already running, much like bitcoin. Fortunately.
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#70Well that was fast.