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Show HN: Instantly stream torrents in the browser

• deleted 12y ago
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• robgibbons 12y ago
  Looks great, seems to work for me. I used Joker while it was up, although I wasn't surprised when it went down. Would you ever consider open sourcing this?
  • milankragujevic 12y ago
    Yes, of course, but it's a little bit messier than I'd like (PHP serving the front end API, while Node.js works in the background, and two nodejs services, the custom movbucket-server and peerflix). It's basically just a server that starts peerflix on demand, get's the link, shows a player and when the user stops watching goes and kills that exact peerflix instance and deletes the torrent cache. Thank you for your comment.
• coralreef 12y ago
  Works quite well, what are the legal implications for you, the host?
  • milankragujevic 12y ago
    I am not quite sure. The files are kept as long as you're streaming, and when you click Stop Torrent or when you leave the page (via the onunload event) the page sends a GET request to stop the torrent and delete the files. If you somehow do not do that, after some time a cron script will go in the folder and delete all caches and kill peerflix instances. Therefor I don't think I'm liable as the user him/herself is doing the streaming and using my server as a method to do so. I'm not a lawyer nor have I contacted one for legal advice.