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They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website. Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the w

They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website. Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.

mahouse 11y ago
Does Popcorn Time sport ads?
- deleted 11y ago
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- finnn 11y ago
  No
lvs 11y ago
I guess you didn't read the article. There are no ads on Popcorn Time and no source of revenue for the developers.
- xnull6guest 11y ago
  I did not read the article. Is there a website to get popcorn time or the 'torrent' files for them? This would be the place for ads. Edit: I have now read the article in full. Question about financing below.
  - untog 11y ago
    Here's an idea: read the article. If you still have questions after you've done that, then maybe ask them.
    - xnull6guest 11y ago
      I just did this. It is not that ads are not possible, it is that ads are currently not shown. So here's a question: do we expect that to continue in perpetuity? My expectation would be that of the root comment: the website will in the future support its traffic and hosting costs with ads and make huge margins. Is there some reason why this expectation is foolish?
      - untog 11y ago
        It's an expectation without proof. We have no evidence suggesting they will do that, nor any suggesting they won't. So it's a pretty academic conversation. They could turn Popcorn Time into a Bitcoin mining outfit without telling anyone, too. With the advent of S3 storage and the like I would imagine their hosting costs are very small, and almost all at download time, not run time.
        xnull6guest 11y ago
        All expectations have no proof? Yes it's speculation. Re: evidence. The evidence we do have is from precedent - former file sharing services that have made money from similar types of technologies (notably bit-torrent). It is an established fact that money can be made via advertizing and given both that CPUs are terrible at mining cryptocurrencies and that it would dramatically degrade performance the bitcoin suggestion is unlikely. Agreed that it is speculation. But this is what the OP asked for at the top: speculations as to why the developers would invest in the project. RE: costs being relatively low. Agreed. Revenue from ads are similarly small. The calculus is performed at scale - which is exactly what this technology hopes to be. The relatively low costs are what makes large margins with advertizing possible.
      - madez 11y ago
        Popcorn Time is at its heart just a torrent client using streamed torrent download to pipe the result into a media player. You can just feed a torrent file or a magnet link into Popcorn Time and it will play. There are lots of torrent clients and media players that are free software which you can use to get the same result. Your expection is baseless because said facts.

mahouse 11y ago

Does Popcorn Time sport ads?

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finnn 11y ago
No

lvs 11y ago

I guess you didn't read the article. There are no ads on Popcorn Time and no source of revenue for the developers.

xnull6guest 11y ago
I did not read the article. Is there a website to get popcorn time or the 'torrent' files for them? This would be the place for ads. Edit: I have now read the article in full. Question about financing below.
- untog 11y ago
  Here's an idea: read the article. If you still have questions after you've done that, then maybe ask them.
  - xnull6guest 11y ago
    I just did this. It is not that ads are not possible, it is that ads are currently not shown. So here's a question: do we expect that to continue in perpetuity? My expectation would be that of the root comment: the website will in the future support its traffic and hosting costs with ads and make huge margins. Is there some reason why this expectation is foolish?
    - untog 11y ago
      It's an expectation without proof. We have no evidence suggesting they will do that, nor any suggesting they won't. So it's a pretty academic conversation. They could turn Popcorn Time into a Bitcoin mining outfit without telling anyone, too. With the advent of S3 storage and the like I would imagine their hosting costs are very small, and almost all at download time, not run time.
      - xnull6guest 11y ago
        All expectations have no proof? Yes it's speculation. Re: evidence. The evidence we do have is from precedent - former file sharing services that have made money from similar types of technologies (notably bit-torrent). It is an established fact that money can be made via advertizing and given both that CPUs are terrible at mining cryptocurrencies and that it would dramatically degrade performance the bitcoin suggestion is unlikely. Agreed that it is speculation. But this is what the OP asked for at the top: speculations as to why the developers would invest in the project. RE: costs being relatively low. Agreed. Revenue from ads are similarly small. The calculus is performed at scale - which is exactly what this technology hopes to be. The relatively low costs are what makes large margins with advertizing possible.
    - madez 11y ago
      Popcorn Time is at its heart just a torrent client using streamed torrent download to pipe the result into a media player. You can just feed a torrent file or a magnet link into Popcorn Time and it will play. There are lots of torrent clients and media players that are free software which you can use to get the same result. Your expection is baseless because said facts.