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Popcorn Time Is Dead
- chaostheory 13y agoEven the source code is gone?
- cryptic 13y agoLarger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401055
- angelbar 13y agoThe source code its on the installation of hhte peoples machines. dont?
- sirsar 13y agoAt least one API it uses has been killed as well.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- jxf 13y agoFWIW, the source code is still around on GitHub, if you'd like to fork it: https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app It doesn't seem to mention the license it's released under, though.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoBizzarely, they've erased the entire commit history yet not the source code. Maybe that was accidental and they intended to destroy it all but screwed up.
- wise_young_man 13y agoI doubt it was an accident, it's trivial to delete a repo on GitHub. I think they wanted their involvement (git commit history) removed from the primary repo.
- rabino 13y agoIndeed. https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/graphs/contributors https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/graphs/contribut...
- reubenmorais 13y agoNote that they're still listed in every fork of the repo.
- maxmcd 13y agoThe api used to pull movie information and torrent magnet links (subapi.com) has been disabled. Here's a working fork using the yts.re api: https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app
- cettox 13y agook thats weird because I have just finished my working version with tys.re api, and just saw this comment. here is link that you can find precompiled executables http://kemald.com/pt/popcorn.html http://kemald.com/pt/popcorn.html and here is my fork https://github.com/cettox/popcorn-app https://github.com/cettox/popcorn-app
- pazimzadeh 13y agoThe Mac version does not run on my Macbook Air running OS X 10.9.2
- cettox 13y agoInteresting, I would look into this when I get my hands on my mac!
- gojomo 13y agoReally compelling open-source apps don't die; they metastatize.
- gschiller 13y agofree software
- devx 13y agoThe greatest trick the devil has ever pulled... But if that makes Hollywood sleep better at night, sure - sleep tight, Hollywood! All is well with the world now. No need to bother your pretty heads with Popcorn Time anymore. You can go back to your extortionist business models again.
- sentenza 13y agoWhat annoys me most about the war on Bittorrent is that it comes at such a tremendous cost. There used to be a time when you could find all kinds of _rare_ data in the Bittorrent swarm. Now, between all the banning, blocking, slowing down and taking down of trackers, a lot of the richness is gone. Sure, all the holywood crap is still there, but what about the sitedumps of now-offline web plattforms and the like?
- nnnnni 13y ago"after only four days"? I've known about popcorn time for at least a month...
- jesbickhart 13y agoAll for disrupting Hollywood, but pirating (or file-sharing however you want to phrase it) is NOT how we are going to accomplish this. The ripest piece of disruption is distribution platforms and working with studios to find a safe way to release a picture not going around them illegally.
- wmf 13y agoHollywood isn't going to work with you to disrupt anything.
- jesbickhart 13y agoActually they have every intention of doing just that. Look at the decline in movie ticket sales year by year over the last 4. Emerging distribution platforms like Netflix and Hulu get lots of attention from production companies because they aren't afraid to shake it up and provide an alternative to the studio giants that don't develop small movies anymore.
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoOn the contrary, piracy is exactly how we are going to accomplish this.
- lukifer 13y agoThesis; Antithesis; Synthesis. That's how it always works. Does anyone really think it would be possible today to buy a DRM-free song for under a buck from multiple sources, if not for the competition represented by Napster and its successors?
- jesbickhart 13y agoYou make it sound like this is the only opportunity for disruption yet fail to bring a point to the table to back up this claim. Piracy is a violation of copyrighted content plain and simple. It is illegal. We will find another way.
- motyar 13y agoDoes anyone have original software for Linux-32bit?
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoIf Hollywood wants to go down kicking and screaming, so be it. Piracy will come out on top eventually, it's only a matter of time.
- DigitalSea 13y agoI'm sure the decision to move on with their lives involved a "friendly email" and maybe a pay out, I guess we'll never truly know. Considering it was no different to that of uTorrent, Vuze and every other bittorrent client out there (you can stream torrents in uTorrent) it makes me wonder what the real reason was. I've got the source code on my machine and there are quite a few forks of it still around anyways. Brilliant program, works extremely well.
- mbesto 13y agoCan you run it locally and it works the same?
- DigitalSea 13y agoOne of the API's I believe that the developers were running is not working, someone has created a version of it here if you're interesting where they've got it working: http://kemald.com/pt/popcorn.html#.UyOq2PmSx8E http://kemald.com/pt/popcorn.html#.UyOq2PmSx8E — downside is a couple of features are no longer working like subtitles and no quality selection. Minor downsides in my opinion.
- mbesto 13y agoInteresting. Here's another thought experiment - what if the app itself was decentralized - meaning 1,000's of local machines P2P load balanced.