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PopcornTime official website is back
- quchen 13y agoIt's up and running for me.
- shekhar101 13y agoKeep getting this: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1090458/2602971/3c5eab00-bb28-11e3-9b8b-401dc49d569a.png https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1090458/2602971/3... everytime I run Popcorn time or similar clones(Time 4 popcorn, Popcorn time yify etc.). Why is this happening only with me. Infact I think it's happening with all node.js desktop apps. Any clues why is it happening?
- moondowner 13y agoIt's best to ask this question on the node-webkit Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/node-webkit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/node-webkit
- bertil 13y agoThe app itself has been working for me all along.
- rogerfernandezg 13y agoNot for me.
- w1ntermute 13y agoI really don't understand all this waffling. Why would you start a project like this in 2014 without considering legal responses and having prepared for them?
- ryanSrich 13y agoIt's my guess that the founders did this not to create a sustainable legal business, but to get the source code out there so that anyone can fork it and create something really great from it. As explained in the fist iteration of the product, popcorn time was an experiment to test the limits of real time technology. Look at what they've done. They received media attention, legal attention and certainly attention from the tech community. The founders have created a name for themselves and released something very cool in the process.
- dagw 13y agoI think it was more of a protest action than any attempt at a viable project/business. They probably did consider the legal responses and are reacting in the best possible way to get and keep people talking about.
- SamuelKillin 13y agoHas the repo been moved from here? https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app
- deweller 13y agoThe link on the website points to https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
- isra017 13y agoYes I was the previous owner of popcorn-team, but for some reason the other owner kicked everyone before closing the repo and the website. popcorn-org and popcorn-time.tv are the new project I maintain.
- archgrove 13y agoA radical solution, I know, but why not just pay for your content? And, if it's not available at the right price/format/location, find other content? And, to those saying "This is for non-copyright/author approved stuff", I say "I was not born yesterday".
- dewey 13y ago"Find other content" is pretty easy to say if you are living in the so called "first world" where there's lots of content available.
- zanny 13y agoYou do have archive.orgs entire collection of public domain works available. I'm pretty sure it would take a lifetime or more to just consume all those. And personally, I spend sparing time looking at art on deviantart from the some hundred or so artists I follow, listening to the music and podcasts I follow on bandcamp / rss, watching youtube videos, and read the books and novels of authors from all over the Internet that publish their works online. Plenty of stuff to occupy oneself with. Not trying to argue in the OPs favor, just saying inherent to an Internet connection is access to effectively infinite material.
- mpnordland 13y agoAnd 90% of it is crap
- res0nat0r 13y agoBeing entertained is not a right.
- x1024 13y agoNot all Torrent users are a menace to society. I pay for my content, all of it. But the speed and UX of this app is quite obviously the next stage of evolution for the movie business. Sorry but I'm tired of overpriced popcorn and people slurping sodas next to me in the theater. I think Big Movie need to be forced into action and an app like PT makes "C&D letters" less and less of an option.
- jaxonrice 13y agoHow do we know that this is the official website, and not simply a clone with (possibly) malicious content. The official popcornti.me site had that exact issue back in March: "@mediatemple hey they cloned our site getpopcornti.me in http://getpopcorntime.com http://getpopcorntime.com - they linked some downloads as virus - watch out!" - https://twitter.com/getpopcornapp/status/442519692067241984 https://twitter.com/getpopcornapp/status/442519692067241984
- Touche 13y agoExactly, and without some explanation by the maintainers of what happened this could be malicious in a number of ways (heck, they could be cooperating with authorities for all we know).
- eli 13y agoI don't think I'd ever recommend installing binaries designed for illegal file sharing
- joeblau 13y agoWhat if he/she lives in a country where popcorn time is not illegal?
- eli 13y agoI wasn't making a legal or moral judgement, but a practical one: applications designed for downloading copyrighted content disproportionately tend to contain malware.
- Ntrails 13y agoIf the source is still up one can safely compile from there no?
- dagw 13y agoFor very weak values of "safely". If, for example, the app has an auto-update feature, like many apps have, then they can simply push malware onto you at some point down the road. Even if they don't have an official one, it wouldn't be too hard to hide one in the code.
- tehwebguy 13y agoThis one is popcorn-time.tv, the old one that is still down is http://getpopcornti.me http://getpopcornti.me The last commit is "Disabled the updater", looks like someone just forked it, stopped the player from updating (presumably since it would poll a set URL they don't have control over) and launched a new website.
- reubenmorais 13y agoNo, this is the new repo, and there have been several commits (and one previous release) since the original one went down: https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
- kmumaw90 13y agopopcorn time listed on www.createsetgo.com in entertainment section - it is a social network for consumers looking to plug into the latest & greatest ideas - hope the connecting with the end users helps your BETA. cheers!
- Recoil42 13y agoThis is a clone, not the official site.
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- sirdogealot 13y agoIt's quite obvious that more people are interested in upvoting articles related to popcorn time right now than xbmc. I'm sure when xbmc was first released it would have had it's fair share of coverage on HN back in 2002.
- hhimanshu 13y agoThis always confuses me. Is it legal to stream movies in US using torrents? meaning can I use popcorn-time.tv in US without any legal issues?
- Smirnoff 13y agoIANAL but from my experience people get in trouble for sharing (or uploading) the copyrighted material (but not downloading per se). Not sure if this happens due to some law or because of the tracking/software limitations. Basically, if you use a torrent client to download a movie, it is in your interest to not upload/seed it because that's when you get caught (usually). Because Popcorn app forces you to seed the movie, it is clearly illegal in the US and will get you in trouble if you can't hide your tracks. PS: It is legal to share/stream/upload your own content. As long as it doesn't violate some other law.
- TsomArp 13y agocuevana.tv has a fork that has support for tv series (not all).
- plg 13y agoHow is this not a honeypot for copyright lawsuit generators?