Goodbye Popcorn Time

Post by The_Double » Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 12:39 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #163

equalarrow wrote: post #46

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If I wasn't on Comcast I would try this out.. I've had to resort to a lower-tech approach: * Rent a cheap server * Run transmission daemon on it * SSH into server, port forward 9091 * Connect to localhost:9091 and add torrents that way * When downloads are done, scp them off to my local network Con: way too many steps involved Pro: encrypted to/from my local network I know this is not nearly the same as Popcorn Time,…

I have a similar setup, but I've automated a few more steps. I have couchpotato[1] running on my VPS. When I add a movie to it, it'll find and drop the torrent file to a directory, where rtorrent will pick it up and immediately start downloading it. When it finishes, it moves the files to a temporary directory, where couchpotato will detect them, rename them and move them to yet another directory, where Git Annex Ass…

Post by eterm » Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 2:10 PM UTC

tinalumfoil wrote: post #210

mentos wrote: post #93

> Piracy is not a people problem. It’s a service problem. I'd say its a pricing problem. Right now 'The Wolf of Wall Street' is available from Amazon Instant Video at $20. On your popular torrent site virtually the same product is available for $0 + (riskOfGettingCaught * $1,000,000 fine) = $0.000001 ? You can either try to increase the riskOfGettingCaught or decrease the legal price. I think the industry should do w…

>You can either try to increase the riskOfGettingCaught or decrease the legal price. Below $0.000001? Assuming everyone in the world buys that movie, it would only make $7000.

Post by jessaustin » Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 2:48 PM UTC

Joeri wrote: post #294

enraged_camel wrote: post #71

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As I was arguing with rayiner on another thread, this is a prime example of what is wrong with the legal industry in the United States especially: shit is so complex that litigation is expensive, so people with more money than you can sue you into oblivion even if the law is on your side. Another way of looking at it is that, as things stand now, the legal system is just another weapon the rich and influential can us…

Or what about if you treated all law practice as a public service making all lawyers civil servants? The government would pay for the lawyers on both sides, but you wouldn't be able to buy access to a better lawyer. You'd have the problem of excessive lawsuits, but you can counter that with forcing the losing party to pay a big fine that covers the cost of the lawyers. You would also have the problem of how to assign…

Post by mentos » Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 3:33 PM UTC

eterm wrote: post #313

tinalumfoil wrote: post #210

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>You can either try to increase the riskOfGettingCaught or decrease the legal price. Below $0.000001? Assuming everyone in the world buys that movie, it would only make $7000.

My initial reaction was also "you've priced your risk at less than 1 in a trillion", but then I realized this is risk per movie pirated not per person. I still think it is way too low an estimate, but it might be closer if we assume that people who pirate movies tend to do so with thousands of movies. But yeah, your chance of "getting caught" is way way higher than the number implied here.

Post by vdm » Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 9:38 PM UTC

vacri wrote: post #150

fjcaetano wrote: post #69

It 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 alrea…

Unless you really know what you're doing, it's hard to be anonymous online against a resourced, interested opponent.