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Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

#21

Is it against GitHub's TOS? I have a web app, http://www.moviemagnet.net , that's a movie torrent aggregator that I was going to throw up on GitHub after I wrote some integration tests. It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents.

Seems super similar (not to say a clone) to movies.io

Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

#25
post #15

Forks of https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app are still online. Beware the speculations until you hear a statement from either the developers or github.

I don't know anything about popcorn app specifically, but you'll normally see a message (instead of a 404 page) if GitHub removed a repository.

Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

#27
post #15

Forks of https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app are still online. Beware the speculations until you hear a statement from either the developers or github.

I'm not sure when the site was updated, but it looks like it goes the way of muxtape - http://getpopcornti.me/ Edit: Looks like this was written almost a couple weeks ago (March 14th, 2014 according to the time stamp on their medium post https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4 )

Ya those are from the original version, that the developers shut down on March 14th. The GitHub that the OP linked is the link to the new GitHub fork that is/was under active development. Not sure what happened but the saga seems to be continuing

Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

#29

Is it against GitHub's TOS? I have a web app, http://www.moviemagnet.net , that's a movie torrent aggregator that I was going to throw up on GitHub after I wrote some integration tests. It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents.

The TOS don't make any promises: GitHub does not pre-screen Content, but GitHub and its designee have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Service. and We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, porn…

That would explain it. It's remarkable how ambiguous TOSs in general are. I can see from a business perspective how Github was probably pressured from outside source, MPAA, to remove the application that could be used as a conduit to illegally download magnet links. This is such a slippery slope though...

Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

#30

If this was GitHub's doing, it's yet another reason to not use GitHub. Move your repos elsewhere because GitHub thinks that censorship is a good thing.

Unjustified. Why jump into conclusions before official statements are made?

He did explicitly start his sentence with "If".
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