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Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
- GRMrGecko 13y agoThis looks to be the latest that is being worked on, but I could be wrong https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
- fredwu 13y agoStill exists afaik: https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app
- p3lim 13y agoThat is the original, now discontinued one. OP link is to the updated version.
- dewey 13y agoLink in the OP is 404ing for me.
- yaph 13y agoThat is the point of the post.
- gjvc 13y agowhat were the differences?
- salzig 13y agopopcorn-time vs. popcorn-team
- tomswartz07 13y agoWell, besides that obvious fact. For those of us who have not been following it's development; were there any noted improvements of the new (now-missing) version over the original?
- daSupreme 13y agoI haven't been super up to date with the code but yes. Lots of bugs and faster and better error handling in the newer versions. Improved for every week.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- hiphopyo 13y agoThis is why I always clone repos to disk.
- KnightHawk3 13y agoHow else do you clone it?
- bravehurt 13y agoclone to cloud saas of course
- sdfjkl 13y agoNo matches for popcorn in GitHub's DMCA request repo yet: https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=popcorn https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=popcorn
- cantbecool 13y agoIs it against GitHub's TOS? I have a web app, http://www.moviemagnet.net http://www.moviemagnet.net, that's a movie torrent aggregator that I was going to throw up on GitHub after I wrote some integration tests. It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago>> "It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents." I don't think it matters if they're serving torrents or not. The movie industry will likely sue them anyway and GitHub probably doesn't want to be involved in any way.
- daSupreme 13y agoIf they removed the tracker file then nothing can be wrong. It's not illegal to stream torrents. Just to stream copyrighted torrents. I will move away from github if this is true! First the sexism and now this!
- frandroid 13y agoThe point was that the MPAA can make life very expensive for GitHub if even if they don't have legal footing.
- maxerickson 13y agoThe TOS don't make any promises: GitHub does not pre-screen Content, but GitHub and its designee have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Service. and We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
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- VMG 13y agoForks of https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app are still online. Beware the speculations until you hear a statement from either the developers or github.
- star0zero 13y agoI'm not sure when the site was updated, but it looks like it goes the way of muxtape - http://getpopcornti.me/ http://getpopcornti.me/ Edit: Looks like this was written almost a couple weeks ago (March 14th, 2014 according to the time stamp on their medium post https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4 https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4)
- coreyja 13y agoYa those are from the original version, that the developers shut down on March 14th. The GitHub that the OP linked is the link to the new GitHub fork that is/was under active development. Not sure what happened but the saga seems to be continuing
- technoweenie 13y agoI don't know anything about popcorn app specifically, but you'll normally see a message (instead of a 404 page) if GitHub removed a repository.
- aaronmoodie 13y agothe Yify fork is gone as well. https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app
- psykovsky 13y agoThat one(Yify) redirected to the other(popcorn-team) one, if I'm not mistaken.
- neur0mancer 13y agohttp://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ seems to be down.
- daSupreme 13y agowho got the latest fork?! :D Need to clone asap
- Pym 13y agoHere it is, enjoy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515793
- daSupreme 13y agonot only the repo, their website is down, http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/
- davexunit 13y agoIf this was GitHub's doing, it's yet another reason to not use GitHub. Move your repos elsewhere because GitHub thinks that censorship is a good thing.
- alandarev 13y agoUnjustified. Why jump into conclusions before official statements are made?
- davexunit 13y agoGitHub has censored before. Their TOS permit them to do it.
- kentuckyduck 13y agoHe did explicitly start his sentence with "If".
- alandarev 13y agoIndeed, but then proceeded into calling for action: "Move your repositories away..."
- philmcc 13y agoThis whole thread is great, it's what happens when programmers interpret English. "Well, was the "Move your repositories..." within the implied closing '}" for the initial if statement or not?" :)
- crazy_hunter 13y agoAccording to one of the developers, the fault lies with github http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2207zd/popcorn_time_webpage_and_site_offline/cgi5myh http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2207zd/popcorn_...
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- superspe 13y agoI saw a news about this. Is it the successor? http://www.time4popcorn.eu/ http://www.time4popcorn.eu/
- kilburn 13y agoI think Github has nothing to do with all this, for two reasons: First, because only the https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app has been removed. There are plenty of forks of the original popcorn floating around github, some of them with very recent commits (see the network timeline). It seems unlikely that github would remove just that one repo and leave all these others around. Second, because as noted by some commenters, the website of that fork http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ is also down. But it is not just down: the whole A/CNAME record does not exist anymore! Digging a bit deeper, you can see that the nameservers of that domain are hosted by Cloudfare. It seems very unlikely to me that Github and Cloudfare would act so well coordinated in taking down an application and its associated resources, yet they completely ignore all those forks. That makes me think that this is more of a personal issue. Either someone with all the keys got hacked and that's the result, or someone has been intimidated enough (through legal or other means) to shut everything down. Anyway, time will tell. Don't start migrating all your github repos elsewhere yet ;P
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- isra017 13y agoDeveloper here. I woke up this morning and everything was down. We are two developper on this project with admin right on the popcorn-team organisation. The other developper (jduncanator) is the only one with access to the web hosting. That said, lets not speculate. I wasn't able to contact the other developer yet since he is in another timezone and probably in bed at that time. Most likely, github has nothing to do with all that. Github staff were well aware of popcorn time and starred it many time. If they would have took down our project I think they would have took down all the forks with it. Which is not the case. I'm trying to get the repo up again. Meanwhile I have my personal repo up to date: https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI have archived the latest copy from your personal repo in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/popcorn-app-master https://archive.org/details/popcorn-app-master
- bluegreyred 13y agoI prefer XBMCtorrent over Popcorn-app anyway. It even supports search from within the XBMC menu, multiple trackers, can be controlled via remote on a HTPC etc. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 I’d gladly pay for Netflix but it is not available in my country and this is the closest thing I have found so far.
- hhsnopek 13y agoUnfortunately I think that this was an act of releasing pressure from multiple person(s) that are against torrenting copyrighted content. Maybe we popped the popcorn too long... burning and leaving us hungry for more. Maybe we should try a better alternative?
- celebril 13y agoFirst C-plus-Equality, now this. It's growing increasingly apparent that GitHub is not about open hosting, but a company that has no spines and a tendency towards political self-censorship.
- Karunamon 13y agoThere is no evidence that Github removed this. When they do a takedown, all of the forks disappear too. Further, if it was the result of a DMCA, they make those publicly available. C+= was not removed for "censorship", but because the commits being done there were falsely attributed (by the repository owners) to people who didn't want their names and gravatars associated with it. Bitbucket and Google Code yanked the repo for the same reason.
- j0k3r 13y agoThis one[1] was fork just after the original closed. I guess it's the most up to date. [1] https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app
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- FiloSottile 13y agoThis is a statement from the first developers, the first time it shut down. The one this is all about is a fork that was in active development.
- CyberSteel 13y agoThe great thing about open source code is that no matter how many Git repos get taken down, someone somewhere has the latest clone and can still share it. Once software is created and shared openly, there is no amount of threats or coordinated destruction of source code that will eliminate it completely.
- ajarmst 13y agoThought experiment: Are pulling down a server and eradicating a source repository actions we can imagine a developer performing after receiving a visit/message from a lawyer and/or FBI agents? I find that at least as likely as nefarious actions by Github. (I further postulate a well-scrubbed email cache and the sudden deletion of vast quantities of porn, but I have an active imagination.)
- MattyMc 13y agoAlso, coolest 404 page ever!