Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
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Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#2It's incredibly risky taking on a project like this. In the u.s. copyright violations at this scale are now a criminal offense. And the u.s. has shown no qualms about enforcing their internal laws outside the u.s. And there have been recent examples of the NSA sharing information with the atf and so it wouldn't surprise if the nsa also shares info with the secret service or whoever is enforcing copyright these days.
And what do you get out of it? No money. No bragging rights since you're desperate to keep your contributions secret. And you will inevitably be caught.
And I'm speaking as a plex user. I state this in public because my plex use is easily trackable.
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#3Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#4It's incredibly risky taking on a project like this. In the u.s. copyright violations at this scale are now a criminal offense. And the u.s. has shown no qualms about enforcing their internal laws outside the u.s. And there have been recent examples of the NSA sharing information with the atf and so it wouldn't surprise if the nsa also shares info with the secret service or whoever is enforcing copyright these days.…
They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website.
Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#5Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
What better boycott than to pirate it?
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#6It's incredibly risky taking on a project like this. In the u.s. copyright violations at this scale are now a criminal offense. And the u.s. has shown no qualms about enforcing their internal laws outside the u.s. And there have been recent examples of the NSA sharing information with the atf and so it wouldn't surprise if the nsa also shares info with the secret service or whoever is enforcing copyright these days.…
They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website. Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.
Does Popcorn Time sport ads?
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#7Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
Popcorn is two things: A bittorrent streamer, and a frontend for an api serving film/torrent info. At the moment it uses yify as the backend.
For your project you would need to have the media published as torrents and a backend api that points to the media you want instead of the current one.
You can drop a torrent file into Popcorn and it will start streaming, if that makes things clearer.
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#8Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
I really like that idea. I don't know what the goal of Popcorn Time is (maybe they want change in the industry, maybe they just like free stuff) but if the goal is to make access to content even easier than it already is then running the project with only CC/public domain content would be a good way to go. Show that it works and start getting bigger creators signing on (kind of the way BitTorrent does legitimate stuff now).[1]
[1]https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27...
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#9What mistifies me is the sheer callousness/arrogance of the popcorn time developers. They must know they are playing with fire in a very public way but there is no need for them to be doing so. If they were just releasing a torrent client with streaming and media managment capabilities (the interesting part of the app) they would be fine but they insist on being as provocative and explicit about their desire to violate copyright as possible. The focus on public torrents is strange as well - in 2015 public torrents are a poisoned well disaster - they can't even compete with direct download sites any more - the product they were supposed to be more secure than.
Re: Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
#10It's incredibly risky taking on a project like this. In the u.s. copyright violations at this scale are now a criminal offense. And the u.s. has shown no qualms about enforcing their internal laws outside the u.s. And there have been recent examples of the NSA sharing information with the atf and so it wouldn't surprise if the nsa also shares info with the secret service or whoever is enforcing copyright these days.…
They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website. Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.
I guess you didn't read the article. There are no ads on Popcorn Time and no source of revenue for the developers.