Someone posted a really good article on the being right vs being pragmatic - about it being a service problem as opposed to an ethical one, or something like that. It'd be really handy if someone could post it.
Popcorn Time is back
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#22Editorialized title. I enjoyed the part where they berate the other fork for "ripping off" their UI, which exists solely to facilitate piracy.
> I enjoyed the part where they berate the other fork for "ripping off" their UI, which exists solely to facilitate piracy. I did find this amusing. The irony is strong with this one, although they have some valid points expanded on in the Reddit post linked. Comment from a contributor on the time4popcorn repo: I am also waiting for a reply. You guys just copy other people's work and don't even give them proper credi…
Question is: what license is that work released under (GPL3?) and does that license require attribution?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
It's about volume. Sure the movie companies will be giving away their films for free. But if you give away enough films for free it becomes profitable!!
The quote from the dot com days was "Sure we lose money with every sale, but we make it up in volume".
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which exists solely to facilitate piracy. Let's not use the words the big majors wants people to use. The right wording is copyright infringement and that's it.
Piracy is a well known synonym for copyright infringement. I would agree with you that something like "theft" would not be a good term to use, but Piracy is spot-on.
"Piracy" is a term used specifically to attach the implication of theft to copyright infringement, because actual pirates steal things.
The root of calling it "piracy" is no better than calling it "theft", even if it has become common to refer to it as such.
It's completely reasonable to make an appeal to talk about it accurately.
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#26Popcorn Time previously just showed open domain films in the screen shots. The new one has pictures Game of Thrones and company. It looks like they have stopped pretending this is not for piracy. edit: clarification
Now, for morality to be on their side, they need to publicly advocate and work on a better way to remunerate the content creators. Of course, they could go rogue and act exclusively out of spite for big media, arguing parasitically that how the content creators make money is none of their business.
But I really hope they don't.
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#27Editorialized title. I enjoyed the part where they berate the other fork for "ripping off" their UI, which exists solely to facilitate piracy.
They made something to facilitate piracy, most probably piracy not done for profit, but did not pirate something and then put it out as their own with the intention to make a profit.
They're making an enabling technology which can solely be used for stealing. Seems like piracy to me.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which exists solely to facilitate piracy. Let's not use the words the big majors wants people to use. The right wording is copyright infringement and that's it.
Piracy is a well known synonym for copyright infringement. I would agree with you that something like "theft" would not be a good term to use, but Piracy is spot-on.
Piracy still exists and kills people. Using that word for downloading a movie just seems wrong.
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#29Popcorn Time previously just showed open domain films in the screen shots. The new one has pictures Game of Thrones and company. It looks like they have stopped pretending this is not for piracy. edit: clarification
Now, for morality to be on their side, they need to publicly advocate and work on a better way to remunerate the content creators. Of course, they could go rogue and act exclusively out of spite for big media, arguing parasitically that how the content creators make money is none of their business. But I really hope they don't.
Why?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I enjoyed the part where they berate the other fork for "ripping off" their UI, which exists solely to facilitate piracy. I did find this amusing. The irony is strong with this one, although they have some valid points expanded on in the Reddit post linked. Comment from a contributor on the time4popcorn repo: I am also waiting for a reply. You guys just copy other people's work and don't even give them proper credi…
Question is: what license is that work released under (GPL3?) and does that license require attribution?
Almost all licenses require attribution, at least at the file level.