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- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking
by nddrylliog 14y ago
- Not based in the US: check
- Not hosting any infringing content: check
- DMCA-compliant: check
- Not selling anything: check
- Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check
- Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check
Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned.
[1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can improve the interface while letting you guys off the hook.
- kcbanner 14y ago...but it's called movies.io.
- nddrylliog 14y agoSo? movies are illegal now? Make watchlists! Share them with your friends. Nobody's telling you to download films you don't own.
- b2hack 14y agoI liked the very very good UI/UX, good job! What are the technologies involved ?
- nddrylliog 14y agoIt's a typical Rails 3 apps, Nokogiri used for scraping, PostgreSQL db (migrated from SQLite originally), jQuery+ui for the aucomplete (lazy, yay!), and that's about it :)
- rjernigan 14y agoIf you don't mind me asking...where (and maybe how) are you pulling the super high quality images for each movie page background?
- nddrylliog 14y agoThe http://www.themoviedb.org/ http://www.themoviedb.org/ are doing an amazing job. Using their V3 API right now, it's very nicely designed.
- daviday 14y agoImpressive. Your autocomplete suggestions are high quality, even in foreign languages. May I ask how you are ranking suggestions results? It can't simply be the TMDB api, right?
- nddrylliog 14y agoRight now our search/suggestions is a direct API request to TMDb. Yes, they are that good (props to Fanhattan). Re: foreign languages, they store very tidy information about all the available titles (basically a mapping from ISO 3166-1 to the title), cf. http://help.themoviedb.org/kb/api/movie-alternative-titles http://help.themoviedb.org/kb/api/movie-alternative-titles Thanks for the feedback!
- daviday 14y agoThanks for sharing!
- Kudos 14y agoVastly superior UX at http://torrentbutler.eu/ http://torrentbutler.eu/
- nddrylliog 14y agoJust heard of torrentbutler a few hours ago. It's interesting, and gets a few things right, but it's not what we're going for. Hopefully the minimalist side of movies.io attracts a different kind of people. Also, the whole watchlist+sharing aspect is missing in tb.
- collisioncode 14y agoIf you added TV shows it would be better. Finding movies isn't hard, finding episodes of TV shows is tedious and error prone.
- nddrylliog 14y agocf. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054800 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054800, and you're absolutely right. We're working on reduce pain points, TV shows is an even more interesting challenge.
- Kudos 14y agoThere's minimalist, and there's functionally incomplete. Right now you guys are the latter as a torrent service, whereas TB are not.
- bengl 14y agoI'm confused. If you're not located in the US, why do you need to be DMCA-compliant?
- jsprinkles 14y agoWhy create yet more problems for yourself?
- okamiueru 14y agoThe extradition of the British kid who only linked to external content, and the extradition attempt of Kim Dotcom makes you wonder.
- white_devil 14y ago> Not doing ads, tracking you, trying to sell your data elsewhere: check With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a http request to "track.gif" could be construed as, you know, tracking us. http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be100000e&h[resource]=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.io%2Fm%2F1m&h[referrer]=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.io%2Fi%2Ftop50&h[title]=Project%20X%20(2012)%20%7C%20movies.io&h[user_agent]=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Macintosh%3B%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010.6%3B%20rv%3A12.0)%20Gecko%2F20100101%20Firefox%2F12.0&h[unique]=0&h[unique_hour]=0&h[unique_day]=0&h[unique_month]=0&h[unique_year]=0&h[screenx]=1920&h[browserx]=1920&h[browsery]=594×tamp=1338576974951 http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be... > We're not interested in piracy Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it.
- nddrylliog 14y ago> With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a http request to "track.gif" could be construed as, you know, tracking us. Fair point, reworded the above to be more precise. Point taken.
- nddrylliog 14y agoWanted to clarify on: > Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it. To be, again, completely honest with you, no. If you could have that much exposure showing photos of shoes, we'd do it instead. I see it as... a start-up without the worry to make profit. We use analytics only to improve the product. We use this as a product building exercise, that's all. We don't upload movies, we don't run a tracker, we don't belong to any release groups: that's how not interested in piracy we are.
- biot 14y ago> We don't upload movies, we don't run a tracker, we don't belong to > any release groups: that's how not interested in piracy we are. That's like saying "We don't sell crystal meth, we're not distributors for crystal meth, we don't belong to any drug production groups, but our site helps kids obtain crystal meth from those who do: that's how not interested in crystal meth we are."
- mahyarm 14y agoHow are the movie screenshots and posters not infringing content?
- quinndupont 14y agoSuddenly we live in a world where you need to go to a rights holder to reference an image for discussion or non-profit display? The law may be divided on the issue, but I'm not.
- saraid216 14y agoWhat do you mean by "the law [is] divided on the issue"? As far as I know, this is very clear-cut in the law.
- lucaspiller 14y agoWhat is your revenue model, how do you plan on paying said layers?
- nddrylliog 14y agoVery good friends, (less controversial) start-ups, that's about it. movies.io is just a hobby.