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But wait..Torrents are P2P. If popcorn times ports to a P2P architecture because it's "better", aren't the user IPs just as vulnerable as they are with torrent

But wait..Torrents are P2P. If popcorn times ports to a P2P architecture because it's "better", aren't the user IPs just as vulnerable as they are with torrents? A movie studio can pose as one of the users and track who is connecting to them and initiate prosecution against the owner of that IP. What am I missing here? How is popcorn time better than torrents?

socialist_coder 11y ago
Popcorn Time isn't fixing that problem. Studios / Law firms / whoever can jump on the torrent, grab all the seeding IPs, and go to town. All Popcorn Time does is include a built in search & video player. The actual torrenting part is the same as using a normal torrent client. Where do you find out about the torrents? How do you get Popcorn Time updates? Right now that comes from a server somewhere. They want to make this part of the app P2P as well. Those are the P2P changes they are talking about.