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Popcorn-app
- kzahel 13y agoI can't see this going bad! [/s]
- dphnx 13y agoCan’t help being a pedant but the plural of synopsis is synopses. “Synopsis’s” refers to something belonging to a synopsis, e.g. “the synopsis’s true meaning”.
- grannyg00se 13y ago"To allow any computer user to watch movies easily streaming from torrents, without any particular knowledge." The screen shot shows a bunch of very old looking movies, and categories like film-noir and biography. Is there really a vast resource of torrents for all potential movies with enough seeds to stream them for real-time viewing?
- ucarion 13y agoI think the idea is that those films are all public-domain.
- computer 13y agoRight. The actual app supports torrents for movies that have non-free licenses as well.
- vnchr 13y agoThose old movies are purposely used in the screenshot because they're public domain examples. The actual library is as modern as up to date as the pirate bay would be :-P
- sergiotapia 13y agoNice! I want this to continue to grow in popularity and mindshare. It's about time the movie industry stopped being so greedy and selling things using RIDICULOUS drm rules. Why can I pay $8 for netflix and watch in on my phone, pc, mac, ps3 and ipad - but any newish movie I need to use iTunes and locked there?
- sailfast 13y agoYou can pay $8 for Netflix because they pay movie studios the prices they ask for the content. You can't watch those same new movies on Netflix because the market value of that content is higher. The DRM allows companies to exploit the price difference between "early adopter" customers and those that will get it later on Netflix. Same price strategy occurred with hard and softcover books and their release schedules. Studios should be allowed to charge more for their content when it's new - they'll keep doing this until it's proven the streaming model works out to more money over time. Popcorn Time only hurts that argument as it stands, but could be an interesting Netflix competitor in the pay for play space (peer to peer would save on infrastructure costs)
- wpietri 13y agoI agree with the pricing differential stuff, but I'm suspicious about the DRM claim. Is there any evidence that DRM allows companies to exploit the price difference? I always thought it was studios' better marketing and distribution. E.g., people buy real copies of The Incredibles not because DRM keeps it out of the hands of criminals, but because criminals can't sell movies on Amazon or at Walmart.
- yulaow 13y agoAlso maybe you in the us have netflix Here in eu I still have nothing similar to a legal film streaming service. NOTHING.
- biot 13y agoWhat do you suggest? Should the government restrict the ability of people to set their own prices on the products they offer? Perhaps they can limit your wages too since it's so greedy of you to be making more than a basic liveable wage. What if the government paid for movies to be made then distributed the proceeds to the citizens, each according to his needs? No DRM, no greed.
- cristianpascu 13y ago8 years ago I bought a small DVD player for my son from US. I can't use it for any of the DVDs I bought from here, in Romania. But the AVIs will play just fine.
- pd0wm 13y agoIt would be great if they could build a version for music streaming. Something like spotify...
- jjsz 13y agoThere's: https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy ...
- rdl 13y agoIt's weird that the absolute best video experience right now seems to involve Plex plus either piracy or purchasing huge numbers of Blu-Ray and ripping them yourself; it's pretty much your own Netflix, seeded with first-run content, no spying, etc. But you need a seedbox, membership on private torrent sites (which requires either starting from semi-open sites and moving up, or getting direct invites from knowledgeable friends), some effort paid to keep ratio in line, etc. That's a pretty substantial investment; for $100/mo or more, it's hard to believe the "legit" industry hasn't come out with something like "Netflix that doesn't suck".
- w-ll 13y agoAs a long-long time XBMC user, this has been my main movie/tv setup for years. Things have changed, I do spend $7 bucks a month on a seedbox, private trackers are the way to go, and yea ratio is pretty key. So way less than $100/mo or even $15/mo on Netflix. And for ratio isn't too hard to maintain if you are always getting the latest content (new movies/episodes) and let them seed for a day or until next weeks show airs your ratio will be top notch.
- steeve 13y agoFor XBMC: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736
- kenrikm 13y agoWhat seed box provider + private torrent sites do you use? I used to be a big fan of demonoid or waffles. But have been out of it for so long that I no longer have an "ins".
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agohttp://What.CD http://What.CD for music http://BroadcasThe.Net http://BroadcasThe.Net for TV http://PassThePopcorn.me http://PassThePopcorn.me for movies http://WhatBox.ca http://WhatBox.ca for seedbox My in was What.CD (open interviews). If you want quick access to the other ones then you should get a seedbox on WhatBox. Upload 25GB with your seedbox, and then upload 5 torrents. Now you will be a Power User and have access to the invite forum which has unlimited invites for pretty much every other private tracker (including BTN and PTP).
- plg 13y agoso someone tell me the real risk of me getting sued (or even threatened) by a movie company, by my ISP, by my police department, and then I will use it. maybe
- sergiotapia 13y agoHoneypot trackers log your IP and big media send ISP notices in batch. So you may or may not get a 1st strike warning in the future. Better to just using a private tracker with semi-lax rules, such as ILoveTorrents.
- neotek 13y agoHow is a private tracker going to help if anyone can register an account there?
- 3rd3 13y agoThree years ago I had to pay about 1000 € in Germany for downloading a music album (I don’t remember which it was, but it certainly wasn’t worth as much). AFAIK there are laws on their way to restrict batch warnings.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoWait, why are people so quick to download and install these binaries? This is an excellent opportunity to piggyback a virus onto a ton of people's computers, and the "Yify" github profile seems to have no other prior history: https://github.com/Yify https://github.com/Yify EDIT: Nevermind, it's headed by jduncanator who seems to have done a lot of public work. They also contributed to the original popcorn time.
- balls187 13y agoI don't if it's the same dude|lady|group, but Yify is well known in the torrent scene.
- mistercow 13y agoIt looks like it is actually affiliated, given that the group's email is github@yts.re
- skimmas 13y agoit's also a node-webkit so while one could inject some code in the nodewebkit runtime, most of the code is just html js and css.
- pkamb 13y agoThis recently happened with the "StealthBit" bitcoin Mac App. The precompiled version on the Github Release page contained additional malicious code not present in the repo: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-stealing-trojan/ http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-stealing-trojan/
- kenjackson 13y agoIt looks like this is just a local web app(?). The only binary I see used is ffmpegsumo. Given, that can't you just download the repo locally, replace ffmpegsumo with a trusted version from elsewhere, and at least know you aren't running a version that differs from what is on the repo?
- daturkel 13y agoNo need for the sensationalist title (currently "Popcorn Time is back with a vengeance"). "Popcorn Time build 0.2.7" would suit it fine.
- mcantelon 13y agoThe original Popcorn Time team announced they were stopping the project and their feed of torrents stopped working. So having someone else continue the project fits the headline.
- daturkel 13y agoI understand the context, but "back with a vengeance" doesn't exactly fit the rule of "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Dylan16807 13y agoI suppose "Popcorn time is back" would be an ideal title, but "with a vengeance" doesn't really mean anything so there's no harm done.
- wyager 13y agoI played around with the original a bit, and I couldn't find this anywhere; does Popcorn Time support/allow me to require encrypting my torrent traffic?
- miah_ 13y agoInteresting, Yify picked it up. If you don't know, Yify is a movie release group. https://torrentfreak.com/yify-torrents-announces-retirement-of-yify-but-show-goes-on-140124/ https://torrentfreak.com/yify-torrents-announces-retirement-...
- jeswin 13y agoPopcorn Time (or the next leeching app) isn't good for torrents and sharing in general. If everybody switched to this type of software, there won't be enough seeds. Or maybe seeders will predominantly be those with some commercial interests (malware, ads?); and torrents will no longer be truly peer to peer. Add: The old FAQ is gone, but quote from http://www.ibtimes.com/popcorn-time-movie-streaming-netflix-pirated-content-explained-tech-novice-1560827 http://www.ibtimes.com/popcorn-time-movie-streaming-netflix-... : "According to Popcorn Time’s FAQ, you do indeed seed (upload) parts of the movie while you watch. Popcorn Time does state that ‘your movies will stay buried in a secret folder somewhere in your drive until you restart your computer. Then it will be gone for good.’"
- sillysaurus3 13y agoInteresting... Do you have a link to more info about this? Specifically regarding the malware?
- jeswin 13y agoI was speculating that if everybody switched to streaming torrents, nobody will bother seeding. Except those who have some interest in being a seeder. I do think that many (non-technical) people being unaware of seeding or ratios helped torrents a lot. They watched movies, and they became seeders.
- ilhackernews 13y agoActually. Those that are watching the movies are actually seeding those movies at the same time :)
- mistercow 13y agoIt's really unusual though to have a seed ratio of 1 by the time a torrent has finished downloading. There's no way this is sustainable unless you make the movies hang around after they're watched and continue seeding into the future.
- jhprks 13y agoPeople breaking the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Digital rights management protects the artists and the publishers from having their rights violated by the criminals who watch movies using Popcorn Time. Furthermore, the creators of Popcorn Time are subject to being accessories to the crime.
- andybak 13y ago> should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law So - you feel the penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate? And maximum sentences/fines are the ideal that should be aimed for? What are you trying to say exactly?
- jhprks 13y ago"So - you feel the penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate?" I believe not all penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate, probably even some authorities may see it this way too, but just imagine that you were to ask that question if you were set in front of a judge to justify your piracy acts, do you really think that'll get you out of trouble?
- cdash 13y agoI think instead I will ask myself whether I give a shit how a judge rules on enforcing laws I think are insane.
- neotek 13y agoNon-commercial piracy should be a civil matter, not a criminal one.
- jhprks 13y agoWell, I don't see how downloading non-commercial products can be seen as a piracy at all. It would make whole lot sense to me if you were to say that non-commercial software downloading should be a civil matter, not a criminal one, but here we're talking about pirating commercial products in popcorn time, which can be categorized into criminal matter.
- fnsa 13y agoThe app is terrific. Can't wait for a revision that includes all the popular tv shows.
- sirdogealot 13y agoUnfortunately I doubt the sparse uploading of most older TV shows means it will be a long time before we see a full-blown netflix competitor. Moderately popular TV shows that aired last year are fairly difficult to find a complete season of via torrent for example.
- cliveowen 13y agoI don't see the usefulness in this. On my Mac it runs very slowly and once you start playing it takes an eternity to jump forward or rewind a little bit. If you just download the movie with torrent in 20 minutes you can jump around instantly and use the much lighter Videolan Player. I can see the convenience in searching movies though.
- jaydz 13y agoIts quite useful for people who cannot download an HD file in 20 minutes.
- marcosdumay 13y agoThose people will have an even worse experience with streaming than the GP. I don't get what's all the buzz about streaming. Copy the damn file, watch it, and erase (it's a new concept, let's call it "cache"). Not even Youtube works anymore because everything must be online.
- riffraff 13y ago> I don't get what's all the buzz about streaming. There is a noticeable difference between starting to watch a movie in 10 seconds and waiting >15 mins to download completely. Suppose a movie takes an average 25 minutes to download. I can start watching it in my lunch break if I am streaming it. If I have to download it completely first, I may not have finished downloading it by the end of it. Streaming is a _much_ better experience, even if it has a bunch of downsides.
- mahouse 13y agoIt's useful because it does not require you to go to a torrents site, find a reputable torrent, download a bittorrent client, set up your ports, wait for the whole movie to download... do I need to continue? :) With this, you just click the movie et voilà -- it's something even my grandma could do.
- quackerhacker 13y agoI wonder if it's the real Yify who did the dev on the popcorn app revival?
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- cantbecool 13y agofantastic standalone app. I created something similar, a simple movie torrent search engine: http://www.moviemagnet.net http://www.moviemagnet.net I hope people are not discouraged by Popcorn's exit, since torrent based applications should force the issue, old media companies to change their archaic distribution models.
- higherpurpose 13y agoAre you the same owner behind the "original" movies.io, or did you just clone it?
- cantbecool 13y agoThey stopped serving torrents, so I decided to pick up where they left off.
- donpdonp 13y agoIs there any content in the popcorn catalog that is known to be license-friendly with popcorn's distribution mechanism? I want to see the mechanism of popcorn work without violating copyright. I'd like to see a category for 'Creative Commons' or 'Public Domain'.
- winningio 13y agoLOL, just watch a YouTube video of it.
- forrestthewoods 13y agoIt's obvious that $8/month for unlimited access to all TV and/or movie content ever created ever just isn't an economic reality. So, how much would you pay on-top of your $8/month Netflix subscription (assuming you have it in your country) for access to new releases? Would you pay another $8 a month? Maybe $12 so it's a round $20 total? Would you pay $5 to rent a new movie if it could then easily be streaming through Netflix on one of eleventy kazillion devices? What would you be willing to pay?
- orbitur 13y agoI would gladly pay the ~$100/month required for decent cable (as in, not basic) to have complete access to all the latest TV shows on-demand. Charge ~$10 extra for Netflix-like access to movies and HBO-level shows. With the current market, I would pay ~$100 for thousands of hours of content I would never watch, and the shows I do want to watch I'd have to timeshift anyway because I'm busy. That's why I cancelled it, I was paying for an abundance of content I never watched, and the content I did want, I had to download or buy separately. Of course, this will never happen because production studios want their own little silos.
- baby 13y agoI'd even pay 50$/month for that kind of system (and I'm a student). But I don't think I'm in the majority.
- checker659 13y agoI'm from the third world. I'd gladly pay double even triple of what you pay for a monthly Netflix subscription if only it was available.
- egeozcan 13y agoI'm living in Germany. Here, for non-dubbed, easily accessible (on-demand access on every device) and rich (all popular shows, movies and then some) content, I'd gladly pay 100€/month. I hate having to use VPNs to make it look like I'm in the US to receive crappy service.
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- DigitalSea 13y agoIt makes me incredibly happy as an Australian with no access to a Netflix type service (because none exists here) that isn't cable television that costs over $100 per month via Foxtel to be able to stream movies. Yes, I do feel bad for using apps like this, but I have no other legal and affordable choice. I have Fetch TV which offers movies and additional content bundled with my Internet connection, you get 30 free movies per month (usually older movies) and have to pay for newer ones which can quickly add up if you pay for a few of them. Popcorn highlights a real problem in the entertainment industry and as someone who's looked into starting a Netflix like service in Australia, the licencing and costs associated with licences and obtaining decent content are way too expensive to even consider starting something up. Until the situation improves for us Australians and our New Zealand neighbours amongst other countries, people will continue to use apps like this. Learn from Spotify industry heavyweights and open up your content for streaming globally via paid services like Netflix.
- randorando 13y agoYou should consider subscribing to Netflix and using a service like Hola Unblocker to access it in Australia. This approach is still illegal but arguably better than torrenting.
- biafra 13y agoIs it really illegal or just violating the TOS? Can you be dragged to court for it or only have the service terminated?
- icebraining 13y agoIANAL, but I would say that if you're violating the TOS, you don't have a proper license to the content (since that's contingent upon following the terms), and so you're committing copyright infringement. On the other hand, "In relation to the use of VPNs by Australians to access services such as Hulu and Netflix, on the limited information provided there does not appear to be an infringement of copyright law in Australia," a spokesman for Attorney-General Robert McClelland said. "Whether the Australian users have committed an offence by deceiving these providers about their identity, or eligibility to receive their services, would depend on state or territory criminal law." http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/media-streams-spark-piracy-row-over-copyright/story-e6frgakx-1226078817583 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/media-streams-spa...
- piratebroadcast 13y agoWhats the elevator pitch on what this is and what it does?
- Relys 13y agoWith the Vuze torrent client right click on the file, select "Set Priority" and select "Numeric...". Next, right click on the file, select "Media Server" and select "Copy Stream URL to Clipboard". Now open VLC Media Player, select "Media", select "Open Network Stream", paste in the URL and click "Play". The cool thing about Vuze is that you can use a SOCKS5 proxy and/or restrict traffic to a virtual NIC if you have a VPN. This way even if you turn your VPN off (to play games etc.) you won't be exposed to the swarm. If you use XBMC you can install the XBMCTorrent add-on which has an interface similar to Popcorn Time. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 XBMC is cool because you can use the Android app Yatse to control XBMC. If you have two boxes running XBMC (i.e. in your living room and bedroom) you can use Yatse to resume playback on the other box with the push of a button! Unfortunately, XBMCTorrent and Popcorn Time don't support SOCKS5 proxies or restricting traffic on specific NICs. Therefore you'll want to set up an internet kill switch on your box as a fail safe.
- manishrc 13y agoInspired by Popcorn-time, Hacked together a cli tool: Morrent - Command-line Search and Stream Movie Torrent. https://www.npmjs.org/package/morrent https://www.npmjs.org/package/morrent Uses yts.re API and peerflix.
- manishrc 13y agoInspired by Popcorn-time, Hacked together a cli tool: Morrent - Command-line Search and Stream Movie Torrent. https://www.npmjs.org/package/morrent https://www.npmjs.org/package/morrent Uses yts.re API and peerflix.
- thefreeman 13y agoQuestion to anyone who uses this or torrents directly to their PC (rather then via Seedbox). Has anyone heard of anyone that has received notice from their ISP yet for the "6 strikes" changes that went into play? As soon as I heard about those I transitioned completely to a seedbox setup. It is actually great for media because I can stream directly from my seedbox to my chromecast, but for some things like software / games it would be more convenient to just torrent it directly. I am basically curious if maintaining an up to date IP block list via peerblock and using only private trackers is enough to keep you off the radar?
- j2kun 13y agoI think ISPs gave that up...
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- rishid97 13y agoThe power of open source.
- h1karu 13y agoxbmc + xbmctorrent plugin is way better than either popcorn app.
- jitl 13y agoThe links to downloads 404 for me.
- Daiz 13y agoThe sad thing about Popcorn Time is the way it shows how little people actually care about AV quality. One of the biggest reasons why I personally resort to illegal options (especially with video material) is because of the higher quality they offer compared to legal alternatives, but this aspect is not present in Popcorn Time at all since it sources all the video and audio from YIFY. YIFY is basically a bunch of morons producing nothing but total garbage who would be better off encoding things in SD with the low bitrates they use. Sadly, since their fork is likely going to be considered the "main" one for Popcorn Time, decent AV quality will probably never be a thing with it. (I found a couple issues on various GitHub forks about this subject and ran into this image[1] which demonstrates the problem quite well.) EDIT: Well, I guess there's some hope for the future[2]. Not holding my breath, though. [1] https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1736009/2426834/15aa358e-abcd-11e3-894a-07cb33069ec7.jpg https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1736009/2426834/15aa358e-a... [2] https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app/issues/51 https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app/issues/51
- jerguismi 13y ago> The sad thing about Popcorn Time is the way it shows how little people actually care about AV quality. What's sad about the fact that different consumers value different things?
- Daiz 13y agoIn the various discussions about Popcorn Time here and elsewhere, the technical quality of the content has been the subject of discussion multiple times, along with mentions of illegal alternatives offering higher quality than legal ones. By sourcing from YIFY, we're talking about the opposite, though - legal options like Netflix will most definitely offer higher video/audio quality than Popcorn Time. It's certainly true that different consumers value different things, though. Which is why it's sad that with Popcorn Time my only choices are shit quality or nothing.
- mistercow 13y ago>who would be better off encoding things in SD with the low bitrates they use DCT quantization always beats down-scaling at the same bit rate.
- daGrevis 13y agoI wonder what's GitHub opinion on this. What would they do if the government would ask them to remove all code including forks from their site?