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Goodbye Popcorn Time

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Re: Goodbye Popcorn Time

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post #6

There is an encrypted message [1] in the last commit of their website (popcorn-time.github.io). [1] https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-time.github.io/commi...

I guess full name credits to prove their participation in case of job interviews while not making it too easy for the lawyers to address them. A timestamped, maybe later revealed proof of knowledge or secret communication doesn't make a lot of sense here.

Re: Goodbye Popcorn Time

#24
post #9

Sadly, existing then shutting down so fast will only hurt the whole reason they set out. Lawyers and middle men are licking their chops and toasting champagne and caviar dreams at the idea of such fast work on their part. It did prove once again that demand for easy services is desired but lots of that were also because it was free.

Why would lawyers be toasting champagne? They could have made money from a lawsuit.

Re: Goodbye Popcorn Time

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post #18
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made sure to download it right away a few days ago even though I don't know when I will get around to trying it.

Too late. Their database is hosted somewhere online and now gone.

Should be possible to build a P2P index with something like BTSync, which lets you hand out read-only keys. If only it were open source, or at least open protocol.

Re: Goodbye Popcorn Time

#28

I wonder what will happen to the code-base. It's pretty hard to make an application go away when there are many checkouts of its git module around the world.

I'm absolutely certain it'll get forked and live on under different maintainers.

Yeah, the service works. I know that I forked a copy just in case.

Re: Goodbye Popcorn Time

#29
post #9

Sadly, existing then shutting down so fast will only hurt the whole reason they set out. Lawyers and middle men are licking their chops and toasting champagne and caviar dreams at the idea of such fast work on their part. It did prove once again that demand for easy services is desired but lots of that were also because it was free.

Why would lawyers be toasting champagne? They could have made money from a lawsuit.

While people downloaded millions of illegal movies..
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