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Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

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Post by dangrossman »

nddrylliog wrote: post #100
CJefferson wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For much of this content there are 'APIs'. Why not link people to an Amazon link, or netflix, or iTunes, for films which are available at those places?

EDIT: Read below before downvoting, in USA the situation might be better. We're (Europe) still waiting. Because they so clearly suck at both UI and content distribution. I don't want to jump through hoops to watch a movie. And no I don't want to wait for the release window to clear. I want you to give me the rights to get it by my owns mean, because I know how to do it better than you. Just let me pay for the damn th…

On most of these stores, if you linked directly to the movie page, it'd be a one- or two-click experience between arriving and watching the video.

On Amazon for example, you click the "Buy Movie" button, and it turns into a play button, which launches the movie player. As long as you're signed in, there are no intermediate steps, the purchase just goes to your default credit card or bank account and you get an e-mail receipt while you're already watching the movie.

It's not that different anywhere else if you're already signed in, which many people will be.

You haven't really answered the question of why you don't "let me pay for the damn thing" by linking to these stores for the movies available there. If you're only interested in helping people pirate movies even if they're cheaply and easily available to them online already, just come out and say it.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#113

Post by nddrylliog »

dangrossman wrote: post #111
nddrylliog wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EDIT: Read below before downvoting, in USA the situation might be better. We're (Europe) still waiting. Because they so clearly suck at both UI and content distribution. I don't want to jump through hoops to watch a movie. And no I don't want to wait for the release window to clear. I want you to give me the rights to get it by my owns mean, because I know how to do it better than you. Just let me pay for the damn th…

On most of these stores, if you linked directly to the movie page, it'd be a one- or two-click experience between arriving and watching the video. On Amazon for example, you click the "Buy Movie" button, and it turns into a play button, which launches the movie player. As long as you're signed in, there are no intermediate steps, the purchase just goes to your default credit card or bank account and you get an e-mail…

Most of your assumptions should end with "if you live in the USA".

Yup, life sucks for movie lovers in Europe.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#114

Post by hardik988 »

I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of torrents, MPAA often hops on to a tracker, doesn't send/receive any data, but all it does is log the public IPs of all peers on the tracker. Is this a problem with magnet downloads as well ?

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#115

Post by mthreat »

quinndupont wrote: post #94
edw519 wrote: post #79

I don't know which I feel saddest about: 1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to. 2. That it quickly made it to #1 on Hacker News. 3. That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.

Who let the MPAA in here? Seriously, unless you are a massive copyright holder, attempting to exploit every red penny out of your brainwashed masses, I don't see how any user would have a problem with this. Maybe the movie industry should try to out-innovate?

I wish the MPAA would engage in a discussion here. Who knows what might come out of it.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#116

Post by dclaysmith »

I'd like to hear some talk about how the post went to the frontpage very quickly, generated some very interesting comments and then got buried (atleast temporarily)?

Was this a result of people flagging the post due to the (some would argue) unethical function of the site?

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#117

Post by nddrylliog »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #110

Very nice. Very slick. A little too slick though for my tastes concerning movie torrents. I'd like to have some info on A/V codecs, bitrate, etc. before I even think of downloading.

Understood. Real power users aren't well served by the current version.

We might go further in that direction, but we'll weigh our legal options first.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#118

Post by [deleted] »

nddrylliog wrote: post #100
CJefferson wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For much of this content there are 'APIs'. Why not link people to an Amazon link, or netflix, or iTunes, for films which are available at those places?

EDIT: Read below before downvoting, in USA the situation might be better. We're (Europe) still waiting. Because they so clearly suck at both UI and content distribution. I don't want to jump through hoops to watch a movie. And no I don't want to wait for the release window to clear. I want you to give me the rights to get it by my owns mean, because I know how to do it better than you. Just let me pay for the damn th…

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Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#119

Post by nddrylliog »

archivator wrote: post #44
jack-r-abbit wrote: post #29

I like the UI and the execution. I don't know why it is limited to movies. The UI could easily be used for music too.

http://www.coda.fm gets many things right when it comes to music.

Agreed! But http://www.take.fm/ leaves things to be desired, hence our attempt.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#120

Post by lbo »

I built a somewhat similar product http://www.dexy.tv but it only links to 'legit' content (netflix, hulu, amazon, etc).

nddrylliog, send me an email if you're interested in potentially collaborating so you can list both kinds of content. Really like what you've done on the UI side.

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