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I wonder if there’s an opportunity here, for someone to put a frontend on torrents, charge $0.xx per show, and pass it along to the rights owner after taking y%

by mwint 5y ago

I wonder if there’s an opportunity here, for someone to put a frontend on torrents, charge $0.xx per show, and pass it along to the rights owner after taking y%. With all the people saying they pirate for convenience, not for cost, maybe enough of them would pay to be “legal” to make it worthwhile for rights owners to collect that money. You could be Netflix minus the distribution issues.

krageon 5y ago
This is legally quite simply not an option. You must make deals with every publisher separately and those deals will involve geofencing and folks saying "no".
- jsiepkes 5y ago
  > and folks saying "no". It's going to be a cold day in hell when any of Apple, Netflix, HBO, Disney, Amazon, etc. license their own produced content for anything else then their own streaming service.
- ydlr 5y ago
  Maybe we need a compulsory license for all kinds of streaming just like we have for radio in US.
s09dfhks 5y ago
This used to exist! It was called joker.tk I think. It would allow you to paste a magnet / torrent link and it would start streaming the file to you. Ironically I found it cause it was posted on hacker news. As you can guess it was shut down immediately
2u28y5m1rs1x 5y ago
I use put.io. It works amazingly. They download everything for you, you can stream directly and even on your tv via their app or chrome cast or you download on your computer or phone. Seriously, the experience is as good as Netflix. It’s 10USD a month and you have access to everything you can think of.
- adwi 5y ago
  Put is the best. Their secret sauce is they cache all popular torrents so they appear in your locker instantly. It is especially good combined with Chill Institute. I can get nearly anything on my television from idea to streaming in < 15 seconds. I can’t program, but I’d like to figure out how to turn this into a Siri shortcut…
- webmobdev 5y ago
  Online torrent services like seedr.cc and sonicseedbox / sonicbit.net are great too.
- bennysomething 5y ago
  I went on the website and I seriously can't figure out what they do? I'm not joking, if people on here are recommended I'm genuinely interested, what does it do?
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by mwint 5y ago

krageon 5y ago

This is legally quite simply not an option. You must make deals with every publisher separately and those deals will involve geofencing and folks saying "no".

jsiepkes 5y ago
> and folks saying "no". It's going to be a cold day in hell when any of Apple, Netflix, HBO, Disney, Amazon, etc. license their own produced content for anything else then their own streaming service.
ydlr 5y ago
Maybe we need a compulsory license for all kinds of streaming just like we have for radio in US.

s09dfhks 5y ago

This used to exist! It was called joker.tk I think. It would allow you to paste a magnet / torrent link and it would start streaming the file to you. Ironically I found it cause it was posted on hacker news. As you can guess it was shut down immediately

2u28y5m1rs1x 5y ago

I use put.io. It works amazingly. They download everything for you, you can stream directly and even on your tv via their app or chrome cast or you download on your computer or phone. Seriously, the experience is as good as Netflix. It’s 10USD a month and you have access to everything you can think of.

adwi 5y ago
Put is the best. Their secret sauce is they cache all popular torrents so they appear in your locker instantly. It is especially good combined with Chill Institute. I can get nearly anything on my television from idea to streaming in < 15 seconds. I can’t program, but I’d like to figure out how to turn this into a Siri shortcut…
webmobdev 5y ago
Online torrent services like seedr.cc and sonicseedbox / sonicbit.net are great too.
bennysomething 5y ago
I went on the website and I seriously can't figure out what they do? I'm not joking, if people on here are recommended I'm genuinely interested, what does it do?

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