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

Post by nddrylliog » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

njs12345 wrote: post #439

david_shaw wrote: post #288

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>Is it a 'human right' to make money off of Game of Thrones or Batman Begins? Is it a right to make money off of Game of Thrones? No. Is it their right to charge for content they've created? In my opinion, yes. I am a huge advocate of open source software. I'm not an advocate of taking other peoples' software and forcing it to be free, against the creators' wishes. Sharing a book, or facts from a library or notes fro…

> How do you suggest we reinterpret? Should everyone get everything they want for free? A Kickstarter-type patronage model would work: the creators of Game of Thrones ask for funding for a new series, then release it directly into the public domain.

Post by njs12345 » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

bmelton wrote: post #425

tikhonj wrote: post #373

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Very well said. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to respond to all of your points, all of which are reasonable. (Also, I'm pathologically lazy.) However, I would like to point you to a comment I made about the GPL[1]. Particularly, my argument is that the fact the GPL uses copyright is just an implementation detail--in a very real sense, it turns copyright on itself. The underlying premise is not that the creator…

I don't dispute consumer rights, but those rights aren't obtainable without the author's permission. If nothing requires the author's permission for redistribution, then where does the line stop? Should a person's private diary just be automatically published to the world? Can someone redistribute a recording of a song I was singing in the shower? Is my time in the shower video recordable, and public domain? If I can…

Post by samstr » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 2:48 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #79

I don't know which I feel saddest about: 1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to. 2. That it quickly made it to #1 on Hacker News. 3. That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.

Post by paulovsk » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 2:54 PM UTC

nddrylliog wrote: post #47

pault wrote: post #40

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The only reason I still use tpb is the comments will usually let you know if a torrent is of poor quality, passworded, etc. Consider adding peer ratings for video and audio quality.

Passworded torrents? Dear god, where have you been? As for poor quality etc. here's our stance: by default, the first search result should be a release of 1) reasonable quality 2) reasonably well seeded. For power users, we're working on user settings to adjust your preferences for release groups, etc. Of course, working from a .avi/.mkv/.mp4 file would be optimal because we'd be able to get a lot of codec info from…

Post by bmelton » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 3:04 PM UTC

njs12345 wrote: post #443

bmelton wrote: post #425

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I don't dispute consumer rights, but those rights aren't obtainable without the author's permission. If nothing requires the author's permission for redistribution, then where does the line stop? Should a person's private diary just be automatically published to the world? Can someone redistribute a recording of a song I was singing in the shower? Is my time in the shower video recordable, and public domain? If I can…

The private diary issue is different - it's wrong to read someone's diary without their permission even if you don't disseminate the information. Same with trade secrets, there are separate protections for those.