Popcorn Time Is Back • Hacker News Board

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by TechBro8615 » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

Rerarom wrote: post #190

npteljes wrote: post #187

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I just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project? "Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite." https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

I don't get a rickroll, I get a redirect to the address you posted.

I also got RR’d when I clicked the other day. It’s working now though. But it’s an http link so who knows.

Anyway, that repo is archived now. But I did find a more modern iteration of the idea: https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula-crawler

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by jerojero » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:36 AM UTC

detritus wrote: post #75

jerojero wrote: post #30

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Mullvand is the best I've found. It's a bit expensive though.

I'll third Mullvad and I don't think EUR5 a month is particularly expensive.

Well, you can get more shoddy VPNs for like 2 euros a month.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by Handytinge » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 11:28 PM UTC

prvit wrote: post #54

OmarAssadi wrote: post #35

With the demographics of HN and some of the topics that come up often (e.g., Linux, privacy, nostalgia for old-school forums, weird little micro-optimizations of peoples' lifestyles to achieve the "best" possible way to do a certain thing, etc.), I have always been a little bit surprised to see quite how many people personally use tools like Popcorn Time and how little mention of some forms of filesharing there is. I…

Yeah, good luck getting into PTP or BTN now without putting in hundreds of hours of work into it (and even then, probably not gonna happen). There’s a reason those accounts sell for upwards of $500 Best bet for most people is finding a plex server with access to these sites.

It's really not that hard. The hard part is getting invited to the good ones. The lower quality private trackers regulary have public invites though, and a good ratio on them lets you apply to the good private ones.

Once you have an invite, all you need is a computer with space and an internet connection. Download a bunch of popular new or older large freeleech torrents and seed for a month. For best outcomes, pay $10 for a seedbox and let it do it - usually faster bandwidth and less hassle.

Total time investment is 1-4 hours, + $10 for a seedbox if you want to accelerate/simplify things.