This app is fantastic. It really is a huge win for usability. I downloaded the app and was watching "12 Years a Slave" in less than 30 seconds.
I hope they add TV shows with a nice interface for browsing seasons.
Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
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#82i think this community is the last place for this. I have the sense most people can figure out a torrent download and get it running. Weren't people actually able to download files and open the in the early 2000? OR has that become a resume skill too ? "Can download and run files"
Then just don't read/upvote/post in this thread, the community already has the necessary tools (upvote and downvote) to decide whether it is the place here for this type of threads or not.
Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Add this to your /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
Noooooooooo (An analytics junkie)
Convince your customers to use self-hosted analytics software instead. Of course you understand the danger of a single entity (google-analytics.com) tracking almost every website you visit.
I block it with Ghostery.
Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
#84If you're interested in node, I highly recommend poking around the source files. Pretty amazing what's possible in a small amount of code.
While the frontend is all Backbone, the real magic happens in its backend dependencies like peerflix (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix) and video.js (https://github.com/videojs/video.js/).
Edit: And, of course, the remarkable (undocumented?) API provided by subapi.com. Check out http://subapi.com/popular.json !
Double Edit: The API appears to be developed by the Popcorn Time people, as per https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/issues/294
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#85Stream for torrents is extremely damaging to the swarm, specially for new torrents. It breaks the protocol and may end up killing itself. Picture a case of major success for this: At Prime Time there is a rush of people streaming from a torrent, acquiring the same pieces of the torrent without servers to counterbalance the upload speed of people with the complete files can't stream the file in real time to a few peop…
It sounds like there is demand for a p2p system for distributed streaming, but breaking BT doesn't sound like a nice way of achieving that.
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#86I think if this idea of equivalence between paid and pirated content is taken to it's logical extreme, the result will be less movies being produced. Maybe it's preferable to keep it as is today: piracy as an option for some and as a force against too much control from the content industry.
Hollywood studios (should) make their money in cinemas, before the DVD/BlueRay release. CAMRips are not really competitors.
Many of the movies people torrent are new releases so that they don't have to pay the high price of going to the cinema to see it.
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#88Can i beam this with chromecast?
Nope, but there is a pull request for Chromecast support. I hear the Chromecast SDK is still a bit buggy, though.
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#89If you look at this file here: https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/blob/master/js/t... It sends usage data to Google Analytics. I can see how this can translate into you getting caught. Be careful. Even if you don't have a 'trackingId' set it still sends GET requests to http://google.com/
We should create a fork, without these 'features'.
First step is done:
Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
#90I think if this idea of equivalence between paid and pirated content is taken to it's logical extreme, the result will be less movies being produced. Maybe it's preferable to keep it as is today: piracy as an option for some and as a force against too much control from the content industry.
Or maybe it will push content providers to make movies and shows available for streaming from day one. So far piracy has only done good things for consumers, in the sense that it has forced Big Content to do what consumers wanted all along, ever since Napster came out.
How do you compete when the same content is readily available, instantly, for free, and in a usable interface?