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Show HN: I made a site that lets you stream any torrent
- vortico 8y agoSimilar: https://instant.io/ https://instant.io/
- anotheryou 8y agoI guess this is a js torrent client? Europeans beware :)
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoBecause?
- samat 8y agoCopyright holders sue you (scare tactics, go to local pirate party for legal assistance)
- literallycancer 8y agoI've never gotten a single letter here in glorious central Europe. The ISP probably just bins them right away since there is no legal obligation to do anything with them.
- kyriakos 8y agoexactly. actually most VPN providers which people regularly use to torrent through them are located in northern europe.
- anotheryou 8y agodepends on the country. If I remember correctly france is worst with some 3-strike law.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoAh, I thought you had something special to add about the use of JS based torrent tools in Europe; yes, using tools for unlawful purposes is unlawful.
- kyriakos 8y agoactually torrenting is fine in most of Europe
- Hendrikto 8y agoIf you need help with English, I‘d be glad to assist :) There are some errors.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoI hope you registered that domain anonymously. And the hosting too. Also related: Popcorn Time
- alexcnwy 8y agoAny suggestions on how to do that? Asking for a friend
- Tepix 8y agoUse a cryptocurrency.
- senorjazz 8y agoObviously do not do anything with US based companies. Find registrars and hosts that accept bitcoin. Find hosts that do not have to comply with DMCA and do not do so voluntarily. Have a backup plan ready for when you get taken down.
- r3bl 8y agoEven the popular registrars accept Bitcoin payments and offer free whois protection. All that is left is a temporary email address and not using your own IP. I'd call that reasonably anonymous. Pay attention to the TLD, because it might be against ToS to register some of them anonymously (mostly ccTLDs). There's plenty that don't have such restrictions.
- literallycancer 8y agoYou probably want a registrar that accepts cash by mail.
- HannibalBaka 8y agohttps://njal.la/ https://njal.la/
- kaffee 8y ago
- chrisMyzel 8y agoclearly: is this a torrent client, will your IP be exposed over the torrent network, will you have outbound data sharing?
- aboutruby 8y agoTried top movies from The Pirate Bay and I get "Sorry the file format is not supported!". Also your main input is a textarea instead of just an input type=text.
- air7 8y agoI keep getting "Sorry the file format is not supported!" Could you provide some examples? And also, will my browser be streaming or is your server acting as a proxy?
- codecors 8y agoSolved! Server Acting as Proxy
- air7 8y agoIn that case, how do plan to offset the cost of the bandwidth if this service becomes popular?
- bufferoverflow 8y agoNot solved. Still getting the error.
- mrleinad 8y agoSame for me. Some examples would be nice.
- ferrolho 8y agohttps://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/ https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/ Are you using webtorrent?
- ressetera 8y agoI'm getting the following error [1] [1] https://screenshots.firefox.com/A85ypFuksubObOYZ/myplay.meetchopra.com https://screenshots.firefox.com/A85ypFuksubObOYZ/myplay.meet... You also need to add support for https, I had to disable the HTTPS Everywhere addon.
- codecors 8y agoSolved
- tcd 8y agoYou're getting errors as your API is dead: https://carsonplay.herokuapp.com/video/errors https://carsonplay.herokuapp.com/video/errors This is a waste of time, herokuapp will get a DMCA and your app will die. How is this trash on the HN front page? Is there no moderation at all?
- stingraycharles 8y agoPlease remain civil. While I agree that this is not frontpage material, there is no reason to talk like that.
- ozzmotik 8y agomaybe i still don't understand the exact mentality of the community (since I more use it as an aggregator rather than engaging with the community since in the past ive gotten shadowbanned etc) and as such, i don't see what about this specific post makes it not front page material? it's a tech thing and while it's been made clear it's definitely nothing special in terms of alternatives being available, to me it still seems interesting to me and beyond that it also has created an interesting community engagement around it analyzing the value of it as well as the value of privacy when doing, ahem, questionable things. the only reason I can think it might not be good material for such is the common perception that torrents exist basically solely to facilitate actions of a criminal nature, namely piracy, and while I agree that's a fair assessment, it's always been sort of a doubleface thing with torrents. they have plenty of valid and legitimate uses, obviously, it's just that piracy is a specific configuration of one of those uses, but it goes without saying that you can't really claim "become a pirate today easy!" as one of the features it provides ;)
- jstanley 8y agoDoes anyone have a convenient example to test this with? I tried Big Buck Bunny (info hash a3fbda1961fbc908026ec7cc4569d5fbef840c1e) but got "Sorry the file format is not supported!". EDIT: And a few minutes later, Firefox locked up and crashed. I hope this isn't malware.
- hmate9 8y agoThere are literally many open source libraries that do this such as: https://github.com/asapach/peerflix-server https://github.com/asapach/peerflix-server
- fromalex 8y agoOT: Guess I am missing something but who is actually watching torrents (or has the time) in times of Netflix, Twitch, Youtube, Fortnite?
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- sammex 8y agopeople who enjoy quality movies
- simion314 8y agoNot all good shows and movies are legally available around the world, so even if you had the money to pay you can't. Youtube and twitch are limited, you can;t watch a good SciFi movie on youtube .
- fromalex 8y agoYeah I know but is it really all the hassle? There's tons of great stuff on Netflix. If you are really into video then all those monthly subs won't kill you. Plus amenities like where did I stop watching, great clients for any platform, always top-notch quality up to 4K, multiple languages incl. subtitles. A decade ago torrents made sense. Then, official offerings were rare/poor/expensive but now? The current most expensive productions come from Netflix and Amazon and cost you few bucks a month... Edit: You changed your post, so my reply above doesn't fit anymore. However, in which countries is Netflix not available?
- senorjazz 8y agowhat hassle? During the day: go to torrent site click link watch film that evening. Browse video review sites of new releases, find a film to watch. No more hassle that finding a film on netflix. Only extra hassle is, you have to click a link a few hours before you want to watch it. I have not used US netflix, but torrents have more content than the netflix I have seen (UK and Latin America)
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoI would suggest adding a warning to connect to a VPN before using the service. You could even add proxy detection to warn if they aren't.
- mynameishere 8y agoSo, why would you stream something that is designed to be downloaded? How is that better in any way? The whole advantage of streaming is from the publishers' point of view.
- loktarogar 8y agoStreaming lets you watch immediately, rather than wait for the whole thing to download before you can watch it.
- timbit42 8y agoNot having to wait 5 to 10 minutes to download it first? Is the user interface easier for non-technical people?
- gsich 8y agoThe difference is only in what you do with the data. A stream is also a download, you just don't save it to a more permanent storage.
- zulln 8y agoThe Buy Me Coffee-button does not work.
- sergiotapia 8y agoWhen I explored something like this, there was webtorrent but that only allowed you to peer with other webtorrent clients. Can you explain a little bit more about the tech stack behind it and how you got around this limitation? Are you connecting to other regular bittorrent users?
- flyGuyOnTheSly 8y agoHow am I supposed to work this? I am using Firefox 60 and when I input a magnet or torrent link and press the play button... nothing happens?
- fudingyu 8y agoCould please provide a demo link as default demonstrate this function, because I don't how to use it. I tried post a magnet uri but not working.