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

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Post by Karunamon »

sukuriant wrote: post #332
Karunamon wrote: post #285

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>What is so bad about honestly getting permission to watch things you want to watch? Because the terms are offensive and anti-consumer. Let us count the ways: 1. Overpriced 2. DRM encumbered 3. Bad UX (by way of 2) 4. Platform lock-in (by way of 2) 5. Geograhphy lock-in (again, by way of 2) So basically, if I live in Europe, I can pay downright extortionate rates to access content in a format which goes out of its wa…

Middlemen that footed the bill for the actual production of the movie and its advertisement? Wouldn't that be akin to cutting a VC out of their percent of the earnings?

You must have skipped the "actively campaigning against my interests" bit. Why should I care about the rights of someone who tries to make sure I shouldn't have any? At that point, my view on their rights is something along the lines of "Fuck 'em".

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

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Post by phos »

tbeseda wrote: post #122
jsprinkles wrote: post #57

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Gazelle is awful, and far too many private trackers use it.

Gazelle really is bad. Is there an alternative? Maybe Ruby or Python?

There are different projects in the works by different trackers. Check back in a few months.

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

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Post by nddrylliog »

res0nat0r wrote: post #336
nddrylliog wrote: post #145

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I can see why you would think that. However, if there were APIs to license all that content on an invidual basis instead of linking to torrents, we'd do it instead. Can't really argue beyond that, you're right to some extent.

How about just linking to the movies themselves if they are available on Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Lovefilm, iTunes or VUDU instead then?

Actually, we're planning on doing that for US visitors.

The rest of the world is way too much trouble to serve legally so far (it's not even consistent across providers, it's content-dependant..)

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

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Post by nddrylliog »

phos wrote: post #338
danberger wrote: post #152

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what's so awful about it?

- Custom wrapper around MySQLi, which doesn't support parametrized queries - No separation of Model, View and Controller (in 10 lines, there's SQL, HTML, JS, PHP and if you get lucky, PHP generating JS or piecing together HTML) - Their idea of IRC integration is to write a bot in PHP, where different pages send it raw IRC commands to execute - is_numeric used for most SQL injection checks - User information stored in…

Interestingly, movies.ioi is a relatively clean rails app.

Sure, we still have to refactor our TMDb client into a separate lib, stuff like that. But otherwise good clean MVC.

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

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Post by nddrylliog »

Tmmrn wrote: post #333
nddrylliog wrote: post #65

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Konqueror and Midori are not on our radar (although we know of them). We'll try to keep them in mind also admittedly that's not priority #1. About backgrounds: the randomness is part of what attracts people to the website (bored? just reload N times). That said, for logged on users, there could be an option 'disable random background' or something like that. Why is page size a problem btw? Are you browsing on mobile?…

Not all people have fast internet connections. Seeing a background image loading 2+ seconds just isn't a good impression. There are file specific things where imdb wouldn't help me: What if I want to browse all 720p or better h.264 science fiction movies with a german audio track? Stuff like that.

So, a user setting would work then?

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

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Post by J3L2404 »

nddrylliog wrote: post #339
J3L2404 wrote: post #335

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You have plenty of responses. But you are probably right. I'm the problem.

From your comment history, you sound very sour and jaded. I do not envy you. If reading HN (and commenting on this kind of submission) makes you unhappy, why don't you just stop and focus on the things that make you happy?

I would love to tell you what is wrOng with you but I am kind of busy

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

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Post by james4k »

cncool wrote: post #247
eta_carinae wrote: post #170

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> If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io. Same reason you buy stuff instead of stealing them?

But downloading is not stealing.

Interesting, but would you take a stolen car? Doesn't quite compare, I know, but it's a bit silly to justify it by saying that.

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

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Post by veridies »

nddrylliog wrote: post #208
runn1ng wrote: post #200

I don't like it that much. Yes, it's deadly simple, but what I actually like on sites like PirateBay or demonoid is the discussion below the torrent. Yes, it is sometimes idiotic and distracting, but if it's bad quality/a different movie/contains a virus, someone will mention that. With your website, I have no clue at all what I am downloading. What is the format? How is the quality? Is it nuked? Is it DVDrip/camrip/…

Power users are not well served with this version of movies.io Results are usually "pretty good", but that's nowhere satisfying for a connoisseur such as yourself. We're working on that though, but we'd much rather have people talking about the movie than about the torrent. A movie is art, it's emotions, stories, parts of our childhood. Much more interesting than a bitrate, a codec, a PSNR level.

This is beautifully done and rather well integrated. But it needs a few things to be better; I need to be able to see the codec, instantly. If I'm stuck with a DVD rip, there's a huge difference between 600MB DivX and 600MB H264.

As for discussions, unless you have some new way to find movies (which would be really cool), it's more important to see the quality of the files we're downloading. Even allowing user ratings of the specific torrents would help.

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

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Post by veridies »

nddrylliog wrote: post #96
tensafefrogs wrote: post #87

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According to the Netflix terms for their affiliate program[1], they won't let you participate in their program if your site includes "illegal activities." Seems understandable, but maybe if they allowed torrent sites to direct users to them they could help prevent some piracy AND everyone would make some money. [1] https://signup.netflix.com/Affiliates

Yup, that seems to be a stupid policy. Anyway, linking to Netflix/others is nice in theory but clutters the interface. Until we find a good solution for that, we won't do it.

But if you offer a link to any Watch Instantly-available film in the same frame as the torrent links, I think that would be great. Same with Amazon's and YouTube's streaming movie offerings.

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

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Post by nddrylliog »

dclaysmith wrote: post #116

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?

if you hear more about this, let me know: I'm as curious as you.
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