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Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by dagw »

belorn wrote: post #58
Tenoke wrote: post #53

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Even barring monetization aside, Popcorn Time is far from doing everything right. Have you tried watching a show/movie that isn't among the most popular? Chances are there wouldn't be enough seeders to get a decent experience.

I can only guess here, but availability of content must surely be one of it. In 2015, a brick and mortar store for renting physical videos still have content which online services do not, including some movies that was in the cinema over a year ago.

In 2015, a brick and mortar store for renting physical videos still have content which online services do not

In 2005 or even 2010 I would absolutely have agreed with you. However in 2015 all those really great independent brick and mortar video rental places I used to go to anywhere near me are long since bankrupt and closed down.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by tljr »

Narkov wrote: post #12
DigitalSea wrote: post #7

You know the traditional business model of Hollywood is well and truly broken when an open source application like Popcorn Time comes along and does everything right. What Popcorn Time has done by making accessing content on demand easier than ever before is nothing short of impressive. They're the Netflix of piracy and I think Hollywood can learn a lot from Popcorn Time (but as history has proven, they won't).

Everything right? Except of course monitize it. Giving stuff away is pretty easy to do. Making a business out of it is much harder.

So because it's not a business it's not 'right'?

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by nonick »

rkangel wrote: post #19
Narkov wrote: post #12

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Everything right? Except of course monitize it. Giving stuff away is pretty easy to do. Making a business out of it is much harder.

Given the technical restrictions on sharing illegal content, due to copyright laws shutdown of websites etc., sharing illegal content isn't that easy to do. That someone has managed to do it in as user friendly a manner as they have, putting everything in the industry to shame (apart from Netflix) is in an indication of the failings of the industry. Netflix is a great product that falls down only in terms of content.…

Netflix is great, I guess. I would know for sure if they were available in my country. Same as Pandora, Spotify etc.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by tmikaeld »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #59
tmikaeld wrote: post #4

Seems to be getting the file from: https://coinado.io So with this, i really question the "privacy" and legality of this service and coinado.io.

Coinado should be legal as far as I can tell - in the same way a torrent client is perfectly legal. They may have to respond to takedown requests or similar though, but seeing as how they only know the hash it will be a lot easier for them to claim ignorance I'm not sure what your privacy concerns are... You can track clients downloading torrents pretty easily, if anything this would help as it adds another layer of…

They are providing direct streams/links to the downloaded files on popcorn.

The issue is that that has nothing to do with torrents - it's a direct link to the FILE of the movie, plain and simple.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by rmc »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #64
FeepingCreature wrote: post #28

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Note that it's easy to get a false dichotomy here, to think it's just between "paying" and "not paying" - if forced, people also have the simple option to "not watch". I think what's needed is something like Steam or GOG, but for Movies. Preferably with un-DRM downloads because fuck if I'm watching movies in Flash. (Same goes for Silverlight - mplayer or fuck you. Torrents let me watch with mplayer. On finicky graphi…

>> "Why is it that in 2015, I can't go to a site, give them money, and get a high-quality mkv download" Because it's costly and unnecessary for a business to cater to every specific need. How many people even know what an MKV file is? And if they did how many people have the bandwidth to download one? There are so many options available to people now (theatres, DVD, Bluray, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix) that people are re…

> There are so many options available to people now (theatres, DVD, Bluray, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix) that people are resorting to insanely specific demands

All of your options fail either for (a) not working in my country and (b) are physical and non-digital.

"Digital content I can watch right away" is not a instanely specific demand.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by jrochkind1 »

sillygoose wrote: post #61
bsaul wrote: post #40

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Oh no, not that price scarcity theory again.... A van gogh isn't more expensive than my drawing because they're rarer or built with rarer materials. Intrinsic value is much more complicated and subtle than that... Giving money for something is also a mean to encourage people to produce more content, for example. It's also a way to say "thank you, keep going on please". edit : or maybe that's what you meant too, in wh…

> A van gogh isn't more expensive than my drawing because they're rarer or built with rarer materials. Intrinsic value is much more complicated and subtle than that Actually, value is subjective. For example, if I didn't know I could sell a Van Gogh for a lot of money, it would be just as worthless to me as anything else I don't want . In other words, a Van Gogh, just like everything else, has no "intrinsic value" th…

I know one thing for sure, you definitely couldn't sell a digital image of a van gogh for a lot of money.

But there are things that are bought, sold, and traded for reasons other than reselling them to someone else for more money. You seem to have a vision of all human economic activity as a pyramid scheme.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by tljr »

bsaul wrote: post #37
smhg wrote: post #29

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Do you mean monetization and making a business are the main goals? I thought they were means? Means to accomplish progress in human society.

Is that what your boss tells you whenever you ask for a raise ? edit : that's not just a snarky comment. i always find it amusing whenever people advocate giving other's people's work away for free.

Your time is worth exactly NOTHING to me. If all you're offering is a duplicated proof of your sunk time (software, movies, the list goes on), you're going to struggle for a share of the resource I use to primarily to get food for my kids.

That's not just a snarky comment. I always find it amusing whenever people try to sell things with no real actual value and them complain it's hard.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by rmc »

qubex wrote: post #43
sz4kerto wrote: post #13

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Availability and content. I'd be very happy to use Netflix if a) it were available around here* b) if it provided the same selection as in the US *: random country in the EU

As somebody in the same predicament and locale, I often find myself wondering whether it is any less objectionable to rent a VPN connection through the States.

That could be illegal. Check the terms & conditions. You might as well pirate if you're going to break the law.

Re: Popcorn Time in Your Browser

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Post by martingordon »

DigitalSea wrote: post #7

You know the traditional business model of Hollywood is well and truly broken when an open source application like Popcorn Time comes along and does everything right. What Popcorn Time has done by making accessing content on demand easier than ever before is nothing short of impressive. They're the Netflix of piracy and I think Hollywood can learn a lot from Popcorn Time (but as history has proven, they won't).

How does this differ from iTunes? There's a business model that works, and the experience is pretty much exactly like Popcorn Time, except iTunes has those pesky Rent/Buy buttons.
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