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Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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A radical solution, I know, but why not just pay for your content ? And, if it's not available at the right price/format/location, find other content ? And, to those saying "This is for non-copyright/author approved stuff", I say "I was not born yesterday".

If what you are looking for is not available, too hard to use, of a bad quality and/or cost too much you will turn to an alternative that is free, fast, easy to use even if is illegal. If you perceive that what are you doing is not actively harming anyone. It's like if you are running around town looking for a parking spot. You find a place where you could park your car, it's not bothering anyone and doesn't block an…

And the other upside is your usage of the metaphorical parking spot doesn't stop anyone else from using it too. It is like infinite free questionable parking, or limited gated private parking with an hourly rate and those terrible parallel spots when they could have just made them perpendicular but want to make you hate the experience.

(I think the analogy might be getting overloaded at this point)

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #13

A radical solution, I know, but why not just pay for your content ? And, if it's not available at the right price/format/location, find other content ? And, to those saying "This is for non-copyright/author approved stuff", I say "I was not born yesterday".

"Find other content" is pretty easy to say if you are living in the so called "first world" where there's lots of content available.

You do have archive.orgs entire collection of public domain works available. I'm pretty sure it would take a lifetime or more to just consume all those.

And personally, I spend sparing time looking at art on deviantart from the some hundred or so artists I follow, listening to the music and podcasts I follow on bandcamp / rss, watching youtube videos, and read the books and novels of authors from all over the Internet that publish their works online. Plenty of stuff to occupy oneself with.

Not trying to argue in the OPs favor, just saying inherent to an Internet connection is access to effectively infinite material.

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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How do we know that this is the official website, and not simply a clone with (possibly) malicious content. The official popcornti.me site had that exact issue back in March: "@mediatemple hey they cloned our site getpopcornti.me in http://getpopcorntime.com - they linked some downloads as virus - watch out!" - https://twitter.com/getpopcornapp/status/442519692067241984

We know it is a legit fork because it is sanctioned by isra17, one of the two official developers. We know it's him because he updated the readme on his own personal github fork to lead people to this new fork [1].

The other developer (jduncanator) went completely missing, and took both the github repo and the website with him.

[1] https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #31
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If what you are looking for is not available, too hard to use, of a bad quality and/or cost too much you will turn to an alternative that is free, fast, easy to use even if is illegal. If you perceive that what are you doing is not actively harming anyone. It's like if you are running around town looking for a parking spot. You find a place where you could park your car, it's not bothering anyone and doesn't block an…

And the other upside is your usage of the metaphorical parking spot doesn't stop anyone else from using it too. It is like infinite free questionable parking, or limited gated private parking with an hourly rate and those terrible parallel spots when they could have just made them perpendicular but want to make you hate the experience. (I think the analogy might be getting overloaded at this point)

Still better than "You wouldn't steal a car" :)

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #15

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A radical solution, I know, but why not just pay for flying over someones land? And, if your destination is not available through another route at the right price/format, just take the bus?

People do. They're called "overflight fees". Often they're waived by mutually beneficial consent. For example, the USA often charges them when a flight doesn't originate or end in the US, but passes over US airspace. Next bizarre justification for benefiting from other peoples' commercial work without paying?

Your mistake is assuming there needs to be a justification.

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

#36
post #21

How do we know that this is the official website, and not simply a clone with (possibly) malicious content. The official popcornti.me site had that exact issue back in March: "@mediatemple hey they cloned our site getpopcornti.me in http://getpopcorntime.com - they linked some downloads as virus - watch out!" - https://twitter.com/getpopcornapp/status/442519692067241984

I don't think I'd ever recommend installing binaries designed for illegal file sharing

What if he/she lives in a country where popcorn time is not illegal?

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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A radical solution, I know, but why not just pay for your content ? And, if it's not available at the right price/format/location, find other content ? And, to those saying "This is for non-copyright/author approved stuff", I say "I was not born yesterday".

if it's not available at the right price/format/location, find other content?

You ask why not, but it's you who are trying to define limits to action, so it's you who should justify why.

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #16

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Certain content is unavailable for weeks/months in Australia, and certain distribution networks (e.g. Netflix) do not operate in Australia. Sure you can use a VPN and hack around a way to use Netflix, but that's a lesser experience than that offered by Popcorn Time. (I don't use either, I cry.)

From Oz and we use Netflix (using VPN). It works fine.

You're breaking the law.

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #36
post #21

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I don't think I'd ever recommend installing binaries designed for illegal file sharing

What if he/she lives in a country where popcorn time is not illegal?

I wasn't making a legal or moral judgement, but a practical one: applications designed for downloading copyrighted content disproportionately tend to contain malware.

Re: PopcornTime official website is back

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post #32
post #13

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"Find other content" is pretty easy to say if you are living in the so called "first world" where there's lots of content available.

You do have archive.orgs entire collection of public domain works available. I'm pretty sure it would take a lifetime or more to just consume all those. And personally, I spend sparing time looking at art on deviantart from the some hundred or so artists I follow, listening to the music and podcasts I follow on bandcamp / rss, watching youtube videos, and read the books and novels of authors from all over the Interne…

And 90% of it is crap
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