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The facts in this article are irrelevant. It's an opinion piece, at best, about the nature of humans to spread human related information to each other and the u

The facts in this article are irrelevant. It's an opinion piece, at best, about the nature of humans to spread human related information to each other and the unsavory behaviors of a few humans to try to limit the spread of information. In that regard, you and the movie industry have something in common. You both spread FUD around to get your point across.

bduerst 11y ago
Why are the facts irrelevant, and why is it FUD to point it out?
- glitchdout 11y ago
  > Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your computer as a proxy... etc. It's not a step forward. This is FUD.
  - mpeg 11y ago
    It's not. There's already two main sources for the Popcorn Time app (popcorntime.io and popcorn-time.se). Neither of them are distributed by the original devs, how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries?
    - kordless 11y ago
      > how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries This question is a logical fallacy, in that a negative can't be proved in the context of this particular problem set. You would need to prove the inverse, namely that you are certain that significant numbers of binaries of Popcorn Time contain malware, and how you arrived at that conclusion.
      - mpeg 11y ago
        Piracy-enabling p2p apps don't have a great track record (remember all the KaZaa clones?) You just have to do a quick google search to find that even the original devs are concerned about the number of forks, and malware-riddled copies of Popcorn Time [0] Also, there's been a number of reports that the most famous forks contain adware [1] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-malware-and-scams-150707/ https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-ma... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4popcorn_popcorntimese_now_includes_adware_do/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4po...
- kordless 11y ago
  Facts are irrelevant in opinion pieces. Opinions are internally formed truths, which are attempting to make their way into society as a global truth. If you want to point out that the author is bias hacking, fine, but don't move into "fact" mode using weakly biased arguments. You have no evidence that significant numbers of Popcorn Time instances have viruses or malware in them. When you do have that evidence, come back here and state it as such, instead of presenting a hypothesis as a fact as you are currently doing. I would point out that having an opinion about the piece is totally valid. It's just not cool to make a biased argument on your own opinion with "facts" that are simply your own hypotheses.

bduerst 11y ago

Why are the facts irrelevant, and why is it FUD to point it out?

glitchdout 11y ago
> Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your computer as a proxy... etc. It's not a step forward. This is FUD.
- mpeg 11y ago
  It's not. There's already two main sources for the Popcorn Time app (popcorntime.io and popcorn-time.se). Neither of them are distributed by the original devs, how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries?
  - kordless 11y ago
    > how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries This question is a logical fallacy, in that a negative can't be proved in the context of this particular problem set. You would need to prove the inverse, namely that you are certain that significant numbers of binaries of Popcorn Time contain malware, and how you arrived at that conclusion.
    - mpeg 11y ago
      Piracy-enabling p2p apps don't have a great track record (remember all the KaZaa clones?) You just have to do a quick google search to find that even the original devs are concerned about the number of forks, and malware-riddled copies of Popcorn Time [0] Also, there's been a number of reports that the most famous forks contain adware [1] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-malware-and-scams-150707/ https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-ma... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4popcorn_popcorntimese_now_includes_adware_do/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4po...
kordless 11y ago
Facts are irrelevant in opinion pieces. Opinions are internally formed truths, which are attempting to make their way into society as a global truth. If you want to point out that the author is bias hacking, fine, but don't move into "fact" mode using weakly biased arguments. You have no evidence that significant numbers of Popcorn Time instances have viruses or malware in them. When you do have that evidence, come back here and state it as such, instead of presenting a hypothesis as a fact as you are currently doing. I would point out that having an opinion about the piece is totally valid. It's just not cool to make a biased argument on your own opinion with "facts" that are simply your own hypotheses.