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Does 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.
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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.
Is there a website to get popcorn time or the 'torrent' files for them?
This would be the place for ads.
Edit: I have now read the article in full. Question about financing below.
Does 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.
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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?
Popcorn Time doesn't anonymize BitTorrent participation, right? Just makes it easier?
There would be less incentive toward this kind of piracy if content producers and distributors could get their collective acts together with more liberal licensing. Popcorn Time is winning because it's easier to use and find content than any pay service. Like anything, you compete by making a better product/service -- not by complaining that your competitors are unfair. Of course, they are certainly unfair here, but…
If you're not in a prioritized market (Or maybe it's fairer to say "privileged market"?) - you can't even pay for the content and see it in a way you want. (Like, pay immediately and stream it).
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region :/"