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Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting cop
by sroerick 11y ago
Does anybody know what it would require to fork Popcorn Time to only support Creative Commons and public domain content? I've spent a lot of time boycotting copyrighted works and I'd like to have a nice user interface to do this.
- mahouse 11y agoWhat better boycott than to pirate it?
- gknoy 11y agoInfringing the copyright implies that you want it, which is, at least to a certain degree, the opposite of boycott.
- untog 11y ago...a legal boycott?
- Crito 11y agoI wonder if studios cite piracy numbers when negotiating product placement rates. If movie piracy became particularly common (I do not believe that it currently is, despite what the MPAA claims), I bet they would. Increased product placement to offset revenue lost in ticket sales.
- ddingus 11y agoA better framing would be product placement to better leverage infringing uses. Not every download / view is a lost sale. In fact, the more we look at this, the more we find the majority of them are not lost sales. There aren't enough entertainment dollars out there to fund it all. But they like the views. Who doesn't?
- sroerick 11y agoI'd rather support artists who aren't using the copyright empire in order to monetize their art. I think any adult should be able to give up The Avengers for moral reasons. You don't need movie franchises that much.
- ogig 11y agoPopcorn is two things: A bittorrent streamer, and a frontend for an api serving film/torrent info. At the moment it uses yify as the backend. For your project you would need to have the media published as torrents and a backend api that points to the media you want instead of the current one. You can drop a torrent file into Popcorn and it will start streaming, if that makes things clearer.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoOP would need some sort of distributed hash table metadata that matched file hash to license.
- sroerick 11y agoInteresting. Is yify or any equivalent open sourced? could I fork that project?
- k-mcgrady 11y agoI really like that idea. I don't know what the goal of Popcorn Time is (maybe they want change in the industry, maybe they just like free stuff) but if the goal is to make access to content even easier than it already is then running the project with only CC/public domain content would be a good way to go. Show that it works and start getting bigger creators signing on (kind of the way BitTorrent does legitimate stuff now).[1] [1]https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27903fcbdc2c530b5c4a044935c1ed7bbdf60e7b307db https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27...
- ponyous 11y agoWhat about opt-in to non CC/public domain content? Does this solves anything?
- k-mcgrady 11y agoA little but when you're screwing these people you're negotiating position is always going to be hurt. Show them the tech works without screwing them and you may get them to come around.
- sroerick 11y agoBitTorrent Inc. is fine and I respect the work they're doing negotiating with major labels/ studios. But I can't support DRM on my torrents.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoWhy fork it? Just add support for the necessary metadata to search and filter by.
- bbcbasic 11y agoBeing pedantic: CC works still have copyright. Depending on your country I think it may be impossible as a creator of something to give up your copyright. Based on what I have read here on HN before. But CC comes with permissive licensing, which I guess is what you are filtering-in with your boycott.
- e12e 11y agoSomewhat related, if drm-free, pay-what-you-want, torrent-distributed original content is your thing, check out vodo.net. Eg: http://vodo.net/joshbernhard/pioneerone/ http://vodo.net/joshbernhard/pioneerone/
- sroerick 11y agoVodo is awesome, and Pioneer One is an awesome show. I highly suggest everyone check it out and support the creators.