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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Apparently Hollywood made that book into a movie: http://movies.io/m/TN
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Glad you like it. We really love movies, hope it shows.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Right now our search/suggestions is a direct API request to TMDb. Yes, they are that good (props to Fanhattan). Re: foreign languages, they store very tidy information about all the available titles (basically a mapping from ISO 3166-1 to
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Dear god yes, that is the whole point I've been trying to make. Thank you for that.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
We're working on a good way to extract those and display them in both a user-friendly and useful fashion. In the meantime, hover over the 'Download' link to get the full release name.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Yup, short film names currently give not-so-good torrent results. One guy in the team is working on much better algorithms for the following: - Torrent ranking for a given movie - Better heuristic to detect the quality of release, la
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Thanks a lot. I plan to make a living out of my programming & product building abilities but not in this domain, it's too messy. However, I hope we can reach an agreement with content distributors at least in some countries and replace
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
The TMDb API links mostly to YouTube trailers. Of the ones I tried, 1/3 were online but 480p at best, 1/3 were simply offline, and 1/3 were unavailable due to country restrictions. So, yeah, it's pretty bad. We've also looked into http://w
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Same goes here in Switzerland. We have a tax on storage media that is supposed to cover that use case.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Ah, fair point. The Torrentz guy seems paranoid indeed (lots of disclaimers everywhere) but that seems to serve him well, it's been online for 8 years. Also, hamsters! http://torrentz.eu/img/hamster.jpg
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Working with the dexy.tv guy to make that happen for US visitors. As for the others, there's no much we can do I'm afraid. We'll help where we can, but the offer is too fragmented in Europe right now!
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
I feel good about it. We'll definitely start open-sourcing code, we'll announce it on the blog (still need to set that up). Open-source rocks.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
if you hear more about this, let me know: I'm as curious as you.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
So, a user setting would work then?
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Interestingly, movies.ioi is a relatively clean rails app. Sure, we still have to refactor our TMDb client into a separate lib, stuff like that. But otherwise good clean MVC.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Actually, we're planning on doing that for US visitors. The rest of the world is way too much trouble to serve legally so far (it's not even consistent across providers, it's content-dependant..)
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
It's planned.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
From your comment history, you sound very sour and jaded. I do not envy you. If reading HN (and commenting on this kind of submission) makes you unhappy, why don't you just stop and focus on the things that make you happy?
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
To be fair, most stories on HN these days mention politics. I see no sign of crime, sports, disasters, nor cute animals. I'm pretty sure no TV news channel would feature this website. Since it shot up to the top three spots and stayed there
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
> if OP truly believes that the world might become a better place as the result of his action and he has no selfish motivations at all, I might consider it moral (at least from his point of view). You only have my word (and the lack of
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Vuze (Azureus) has a 'Media Server' plug-in which works very nicely, even with 1080p movies. They intentionally bury it, though, because 'play now' is their premium offering (a shady business model imho). You have to go to the torrent's fil
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Thankfully France is not the only french-speaking country. Don't be surprised: I'm taking this "fuck it, we need to do something" approach. We've been trying to get heard by content owners for years but nothing has worked. If this is the on
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Welp, time to get off HN. Nothing constructive happening there anymore.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
You clearly lack perspective: try to reverse the point of view and apply the same logic. An employer wants others to live for his sake, does that make him a parasite? No. (The analogy fails to go any further, but your point is nonetheless i
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
So, I'll take the time to set up our website blog, and then I'll let you check back for it :) We'll communicate about our work on the site. We use GitHub a lot to manage issues / collaboration within devs, it's an awesome tool.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Oh, yes, I can definitely guess the thinking behind it, I'm just saying this thinking is antiquated and doesn't work well in 2012.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
The TMDb API v3 is good. We're scraping Torrentz for the results, might do our own indexing later. Oh, and "his".
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
I don't think it will. We'll try to maintain it up by any means possible as long as there's a satisfying worldwide alternative to buy/license this content. In a way, it's a political stand. We're already in contact who could help us make an
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
More importantly, it matters that the first result is a the cleanest rip possible in english. We'll add a dropdown for alternative languages etc., and subtitles, but we got to breathe a little first. Lotsa things in the issue tracker.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Very good friends, (less controversial) start-ups, that's about it. movies.io is just a hobby.

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