Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly • Hacker News Board

It's rare that you'll get enough of the packets at the right places to get a coherent stream going. Especially if you haven't told it to stream from the start of the torrent.

Gonna be interesting to see how this goes, same concept or some cool tech in the background like S3?

[1] http://www.utorrent.com/help/faq/ut3#faq1

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Post by captainmuon » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 1:04 PM UTC

There should really be a version of this using files stored on sharehosters, like what you can find on serienjunkies.de . There is basically zero legal risk when using those.

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Post by prot » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 1:09 PM UTC

This looks very interesting. It works quite well, on Linux as well. This technology could actually be used for legal purposes too, lowering the price of content - if content providers really wanted to.

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 1:10 PM UTC

rickyc091 wrote: post #4

bicx wrote: post #3

This is pretty much illegal in the U.S., right?

Yep, is it actually legal any where?

It's a gray area in lots of countries, although typically they tend to have much greater issues than some very low income worker trying to find escape in torrenting films.

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Post by middleclick » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 1:11 PM UTC

Is this legal in Canada? Because this constitutes streaming and not uploading, so it should be legal?