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Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by goldenkey »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #4

Popcorn Time is _this_ close to being the Napster of Film, Hollywood must be literally shitting bricks. Someone has probably taken it upon himself to threaten these devs in a nasty (and perhaps illegal) way. Surely the story will come out eventually. In the meantime, Popcorn Time is fully available to download. So I'm not sure what genie they're putting back in the bottle....

I don't see why Popcorn time doesn't offer legitimate ways to purchase the content.

For an honest TV index with multiple streaming sources, check out http://episodeslist.com

It's updated daily.

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by icpmacdo »

orblivion wrote: post #39

It's bizarre to me that something awful is apparently being threatened against the developers, and yet new forks are not banned from github.

Im not sure how liberal Github is with banning project but I think a possible reason would be they don't want to terminate a project until they get a court order.

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by Touche »

calinet6 wrote: post #35
Touche wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Popcorn Time is _this_ close to being the Napster of Film No it's not. The elephant in the room that no wants to talk about is that Popcorn Time doesn't work on a television. Television is where people watch movies. Back in the late 90s when Napster was a real mainstream thing, people didn't just listen to the music on their computers, they burnt them to CDs and took them to their cars, to parties, etc.

This is becoming less and less important. My TV is just a display for a Mac Mini, for example. If I had an AppleTV, I could just mirror the content straight to that. Before all this useful extravagance, I just hooked my computer up to my TV using (gasp) a cable. Worked great, and me and most other people I know, especially those younger than me, are fully used to making this work. Even then, my girlfriend could not c…

> This is becoming less and less important.

That's fine and all, but it's very important today. There were file sharing services before Napster, but Napster became popular after cdrw started being put in desktops you could buy at the local computer store (yes, people went to those back then).

> Even then, my girlfriend could not care less about even having a TV. She watches everything on her computer and is perfectly happy.

Sure, and people have been watching DVDs on their computers for years as well, but is there any data that this trend has gone up to a significant degree, or that watching movies is not still done overwhelmingly on a television?

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by Touche »

thesnufkin wrote: post #36
Touche wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Popcorn Time is _this_ close to being the Napster of Film No it's not. The elephant in the room that no wants to talk about is that Popcorn Time doesn't work on a television. Television is where people watch movies. Back in the late 90s when Napster was a real mainstream thing, people didn't just listen to the music on their computers, they burnt them to CDs and took them to their cars, to parties, etc.

But what is "television"? Isn't it just device, or system where the barrier of entry to access entertainment is sufficiently low for the majority of the population? And if so popcorn time is a giant leap in lowering this barrier of entry on desktops and laptops. And since in a lot of countries pirated movies are often way quicker than regular distribution, this can really swing people towards PC based "television" or…

I agree that Popcorn Time is an important milestone, I was disagreeing with the parent who said it was close to being the Napster of movies.

I think people are forgetting just how mainstream Napster was. People are forgetting how common burnt discs were at this time, full of music downloaded from Napster.

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by Touche »

evv wrote: post #30
Touche wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Popcorn Time is _this_ close to being the Napster of Film No it's not. The elephant in the room that no wants to talk about is that Popcorn Time doesn't work on a television. Television is where people watch movies. Back in the late 90s when Napster was a real mainstream thing, people didn't just listen to the music on their computers, they burnt them to CDs and took them to their cars, to parties, etc.

If I were a Hollywood exec right now I would be sweating bullets. Steam boxes will be hitting the shelves in the next couple of years and then there will be no stopping hackers from bringing the elegance of Popcorn Time to the comfort of the living room.

Again, you are underestimating how mainstream Napster was at it's heyday. Steam boxes are going to be a niche of a niche.

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by havaze »

Joeboy wrote: post #27
espadrine wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no western legal system. As absurd as it sounds, what went down with TPB shows how laws perspire beyond a country's boundaries. As for what actually happened to PT, it isn't as clear-cut as it seems. I can tell you one thing as food for thought, though. I contributed a minor patch to two forks. I was granted a small amount of dogecoins (about $.10) for one of those contributions. The notion that there would…

I was thinking about approximately this just yesterday. I have a banal coding problem that's in the way of what I actually want to do, and would be prepared to pay somebody maybe a hundred bucks to make it go away. Probably there exists a person with the skills and experience to make that happen easily, and for whom that would constitute a non-insulting payment, but I don't know how to find them. There are open sourc…

Seems to me that the link is wrong and the application doesn't do any checking and thus segfaults.

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by defen »

Joeboy wrote: post #27
espadrine wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no western legal system. As absurd as it sounds, what went down with TPB shows how laws perspire beyond a country's boundaries. As for what actually happened to PT, it isn't as clear-cut as it seems. I can tell you one thing as food for thought, though. I contributed a minor patch to two forks. I was granted a small amount of dogecoins (about $.10) for one of those contributions. The notion that there would…

I was thinking about approximately this just yesterday. I have a banal coding problem that's in the way of what I actually want to do, and would be prepared to pay somebody maybe a hundred bucks to make it go away. Probably there exists a person with the skills and experience to make that happen easily, and for whom that would constitute a non-insulting payment, but I don't know how to find them. There are open sourc…

I tried running that code and for me it segfaulted at line 26 (plugin.get_num_ports() call)

Also, not sure if it's relevant but http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp returns a 404 for me...

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by tptacek »

pjbrow wrote: post #24
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 'politically undesirable' the new PC phrase for 'illegal'?

The doctrines underpinning IP law are flimsy and arbitrary. It's normal for technology to change the balance of power (and the laws that enshrine that balance). In the current environment, Hollywood's business model is unreasonable, and people know it. Until people think it's reasonable, a lot of them are going to pirate. Technology has changed. Hollywood needs to change. What should be illegal, is threatening to sue…

In other words, to answer the parent comment, "yes".

Re: Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

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Post by Joeboy »

havaze wrote: post #47
Joeboy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking about approximately this just yesterday. I have a banal coding problem that's in the way of what I actually want to do, and would be prepared to pay somebody maybe a hundred bucks to make it go away. Probably there exists a person with the skills and experience to make that happen easily, and for whom that would constitute a non-insulting payment, but I don't know how to find them. There are open sourc…

Seems to me that the link is wrong and the application doesn't do any checking and thus segfaults.

Do you mean http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp? That's just an identifier for the plugin, not a link as such.
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