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http://time.com/18867/popcorn-time-is-so-good-at-movie-piracy-its-scary/

Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

March 10, 2014

One thing that iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have proven is that content makers can fight piracy by providing a better, easier service to paying customers. But what happens when piracy fights back with something just as convenient?

A new app called Popcorn Time raises that very question. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Popcorn Time lets you stream the latest movies — including American Hustle, Gravity and Frozen – with just a couple clicks. The software uses BitTorrent to find and download movies, but eliminates the usual hassle of wading through sketchy torrent sites and waiting for the file to finish downloading.

Basically, it’s the version of Netflix that you’ve always wanted — and maybe have been willing to pay extra for — but that Hollywood may never allow. It’s also a flagrant enabler of copyright violation, at least in the United States.

Popcorn Time’s creators are quick to acknowledge the legal dangers. A disclaimer, warning that it may be illegal in your country to download copyrighted material, appears on the Popcorn Time website and again in the app itself. Movie studios have been known to monitor torrent traffic and sue individual file sharers, so Popcorn Time isn’t necessarily safe unless you’re using a virtual private network to mask your whereabouts.

But the creators aren’t particularly worried about the movie industry hounding them. “We don’t expect legal issues,” a developer named Sebastiantold TorrentFreak. “We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money. There are no ads, no premium accounts, and no subscription fees or anything like that. It’s an experiment to learn and share.”

I have a feeling Hollywood will try its best to attack Popcorn Time, but as a free, open-source project, it’s going to be tough to take down. The developers have shown that movie piracy can be intuitive and user-friendly. If movie studios can’t break down the release windows and old business models that prevent new movies from being available on-demand, they should be very afraid of apps like Popcorn Time.

 
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http://torrentfreak.com/open-source-torrent-streaming-a-netflix-for-pirates-140308/

POPCORN TIME: OPEN SOURCE TORRENT STREAMING NETFLIX FOR PIRATES

Popcorn Time, a cross-platform and BitTorrent-powered movie streaming app, may very well be Hollywood's worst nightmare. The software can be best described as a Netflix for pirates, allowing users to stream the latest blockbusters at no cost. TF talks to one of the developers to find out how the app came about.

Over the years BitTorrent has become fairly mainstream, with hundreds of millions of people using torrent clients to download the latest entertainment.

Despite its popularity the downloading process can be cumbersome at times, especially for novices. Faced with this challenge Sebastian, a designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, decided to come up with a piece of software that would make the process as easy as Netflix.

“As a designer I love the challenge of simplification. Take something hard for the common user and make it usable. I have a lot of friends who don’t understand torrents and I wanted to make it easy and effortless to use torrent technology,” Sebastian tells us.

A few months of coding later “Popcorn Time” was born, a tool that allows users to stream popular movie torrents with the click of a button. Popcorn Time offers instant access to hundreds of films, in various qualities and complete with subtitles if needed.

What started out as an experiment for a group of friends soon developed into something much bigger. Popcorn Time now has 20 collaborators on Github and continues to expand at a rapid pace. Developers from all over the world have added new features and within 24 hours it was translated into six languages.

Sebastian explains that Popcorn Time uses node-webkit and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s basically a browser that users HTML, CSS and JavaScript to serve the movie streams.

“The technology behind the app is very simple. We consume a group of APIs, one for the torrents, another for the movie info, and another for the poster. We also have an API for the subtitles. Everything is automated, we don’t host anything, but take existing information and put it together,” Sebastian says

The torrent files all come from YTS (formerly YIFY), which has an API Popcorn Time taps into. The application can search this database and allows users to stream the torrent on demand. When finished the app will continue to share for a while after the download is finished, to avoid leeching.

Since Popcorn Time links to a lot of copyrighted movies, Hollywood is not going to be happy, but according to Sebastian the developers don’t expect any legal issues. They inform users that sharing copyrighted material is not allowed everywhere, and other than that they are just repackaging existing content, without a commercial angle.

“We don’t expect legal issues. We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money. There are no ads, no premium accounts, and no subscription fees or anything like that. It’s an experiment to learn and share,” Sebastian notes.

All the people who work on the project are big movie fans themselves, and most have Netflix accounts. Sebastian believes that going to the cinema is the best way to experience a movie, but if people who want to enjoy a recent film at home they should be able to do so. This is often not the case, and that’s where Popcorn Time comes in.

“We hate that we don’t have the chance to watch some movies at home. Popcorn Time is an experiment to show that you can do something better for the users, and that you can do it with BitTorrent,” Sebastian says.

Popcorn Time is officially still in Beta, and will continue to improve in the weeks and month to come. However, one thing will never change, it will remain free and open source for as long as it exists.

 
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Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?

 
Welp, looks like its time to finally give in and purchase a VPN subscription.

I use BitTorrent to download content, and it's obviously not a secret that it's been around for awhile now. I do think it's still "too complex" for really basic computer users. Something like this comes along where it makes it easy for just about anyone to sit down and download content for free that might or might not be copyrighted, and the content producers are going to come with both barrels.

 
Sorry ... completely ignorant about torrents.

Is this basically a version of Napster for movies? Except that the "sharers" are fragmented -- with no one piping a whole movie?

Is it similar in the sense that the download isn't going to get you in trouble, just the sharing?

 
Sorry ... completely ignorant about torrents.

Is this basically a version of Napster for movies? Except that the "sharers" are fragmented -- with no one piping a whole movie?

Is it similar in the sense that the download isn't going to get you in trouble, just the sharing?
Pretty much. You download random chunks of a file and as soon as you have that chunk download, you share it with others.

I haven't heard of many lawsuits recently. Typically suits are from porn companies or low budget hack movies that target thousands of IP addresses who've downloaded the movie in hopes of getting people settle for a few grand. Most end up getting thrown out.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
holy ####
Yeah pretty much my reaction. Great site. I try to break it up a bit more since I don't want to see the domain yanked.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Pretty slick but damn it seems like everything on there is shot with a 240p webcam by a guy with low grade epilepsy :lol: Quality, at first glance, appears better on popcorntime. Plus it's an app vs browser based.

 
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Sorry ... completely ignorant about torrents.

Is this basically a version of Napster for movies? Except that the "sharers" are fragmented -- with no one piping a whole movie?
Yeah, that's basically how torrents work in general (not just this one app). The fragmentation of the file is what makes them so much better than Napster. Imagine the internet connection you have as a pipe... you mostly download, rarely upload (all you send is a request for a URL, like "http://footballguys.com", and what you get back is a ton of text and images and data); your pipe is split with 95% of the capacity reserved for downloading, and 5% for uploading. Well, if you fileshare like Napster, connecting to one person at a time, you have all of that download capacity available to you, but, the guy can only upload to you as fast as his connection allows. So one guy sharing a file can only use the smaller 5% of the pipe to get it to you, and most of your capacity is wasted. Then once you get the whole thing you can start sharing with others, but, you can only share as fast as your 5% of the pipe allows. By splitting the file up to hundreds of pieces, you can get a different piece from 20 different people, using only the smaller 5% of each of their pipe's capacity, but filling your entire 95% capacity to download.

Eventually everyone gets the whole movie and can share it, but no one gives the entire movie to just exactly and only one other person. The software manages who delivers which piece to which recipient. You can start sharing back pieces as soon as you receive them, even if you don't yet have the whole movie. So the files can spread much wider much faster. You can basically download 20 times faster than Napster used to allow.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Pretty slick but damn it seems like everything on there is shot with a 240p webcam by a guy with low grade epilepsy :lol: Quality, at first glance, appears better on popcorntime. Plus it's an app vs browser based.
Everything Ive watched there has been DVD quality...if its not, I'll download instead.I'll check out Popcorntime when I get my laptop back, but what like about YTOF is I can stream on any device instantly...I watched Wolf of Wall St on my phone at the airport the other day while on a layover. Screener DVD, perfect quality. Plus, its awesome for those with Chromecast who have to use chrome Browser to toss content to their TVs.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Pretty slick but damn it seems like everything on there is shot with a 240p webcam by a guy with low grade epilepsy :lol: Quality, at first glance, appears better on popcorntime. Plus it's an app vs browser based.
Everything Ive watched there has been DVD quality...if its not, I'll download instead.I'll check out Popcorntime when I get my laptop back, but what like about YTOF is I can stream on any device instantly...I watched Wolf of Wall St on my phone at the airport the other day while on a layover. Screener DVD, perfect quality. Plus, its awesome for those with Chromecast who have to use chrome Browser to toss content to their TVs.
I'll browse more. I just looked at the new 300 and lego movies quick (they were near the top) and both were pretty crappy :(

If more options are DVDSCR type torrents then that is kickass news. :thumbup:

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Pretty slick but damn it seems like everything on there is shot with a 240p webcam by a guy with low grade epilepsy :lol: Quality, at first glance, appears better on popcorntime. Plus it's an app vs browser based.
Everything Ive watched there has been DVD quality...if its not, I'll download instead.I'll check out Popcorntime when I get my laptop back, but what like about YTOF is I can stream on any device instantly...I watched Wolf of Wall St on my phone at the airport the other day while on a layover. Screener DVD, perfect quality. Plus, its awesome for those with Chromecast who have to use chrome Browser to toss content to their TVs.
I'll browse more. I just looked at the new 300 and lego movies quick (they were near the top) and both were pretty crappy :(

If more options are DVDSCR type torrents then that is kickass news. :thumbup:
It lists the quality at the bottom of the title. 3 current releases are at 720p.

 
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:

 
You all seem pretty cool with theft. :thumbdown:

Do you steal in person from bricks and mortar businesses as well? Do you or do you allow others to steal from where you work?

 
You all seem pretty cool with theft. :thumbdown:

Do you steal in person from bricks and mortar businesses as well? Do you or do you allow others to steal from where you work?
Im so glad one of you people finally showed up in here to set us horrible people straight.
 
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Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:
Then don't seed publicly :shrug: I would have no problem seeding for private sites but not something that's public like this.

 
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:
Then don't seed publicly :shrug: I would have no problem seeding for private sites but not something that's public like this.
I know it defeats the purpose of bittorrent, but the surest way to get caught in a hurry is to seed publicly.

 
Right now as it is I'd prefer to download a torrent of a show like Workaholics with the commercials edited out than I would to watch the program on my DVR and have to fast forward through the commercials.

The torrents are already better than Netflix or Hulu or any of that stuff.

 
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:
Then don't seed publicly :shrug: I would have no problem seeding for private sites but not something that's public like this.
I know it defeats the purpose of bittorrent, but the surest way to get caught in a hurry is to seed publicly.
The quickest way NOT to get caught by bittorrent is to do the thing that torrent providers hate most... hit and run.

and use peer block on top of that

 
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:
Then don't seed publicly :shrug: I would have no problem seeding for private sites but not something that's public like this.
I know it defeats the purpose of bittorrent, but the surest way to get caught in a hurry is to seed publicly.
The quickest way NOT to get caught by bittorrent is to do the thing that torrent providers hate most... hit and run.

and use peer block on top of that
Yeah, as soon as its downloaded, that torrent file is outta there. Its a little tedious to keep an eye on, but luckily I'm at my computer all day. I need to look into peer block.

 
johnnyrock62000 said:
You all seem pretty cool with theft. :thumbdown:

Do you steal in person from bricks and mortar businesses as well? Do you or do you allow others to steal from where you work?
people steal from me almost every single day.

Frankly, I'm not even remotely stealing enough to keep it even.

 
Not trying to be all high and mighty. The movie business is the business I'm in.

"Everybody's doing it."

"People steal from me so I'm going to get mine."

"Those big movie studios won't miss a few bucks."

"I wouldn't have paid anything to watch it anyway so they didn't lose any money on me."

"Movie tickets, popcorn and soda prices are crazy high so it serves them right."

"If they don't want me to steal it, stop me."

"If they didn't pay actors and actresses so much money, prices would be reasonable and I wouldn't have to steal it."

Whichever justification you want to make is fine. A thief is a thief; it doesn't matter if it's a dollar or a million dollars. It's a matter of character.

 
I've only torrented stuff I would've never bought in the first place. I also don't seed because I'm not dumb. I know it's still stealing, but I'll just have to live with that as a character flaw. In terms of music, I've pirated albums from artists I've never heard of, ended up loving them, and buying all their subsequent albums. It's not all bad.

 
Sorry, I'll never feel bad for movie companies that make billions of dollars. People pirating movies online doesn't make those companies go broke or hurt for money. They will ALWAYS make money hand over fist because plenty of people still go to the theaters and rent/buy DVDs and order PPV & on demand. Judge me all you want, I'm not gonna lose sleep over it.

 
johnnyrock62000 said:
You all seem pretty cool with theft. :thumbdown:

Do you steal in person from bricks and mortar businesses as well? Do you or do you allow others to steal from where you work?
do you tell smokers that smoking is bad for their health?

this isn't 2003.

 
I steal everyday from my boss when I'm posting here and surfing the web in general while at work. He's not paying me to do that. I've learned to live with myself.

 
The quickest way NOT to get caught by bittorrent is to do the thing that torrent providers hate most... hit and run.

and use peer block on top of that
Peer Block does pretty much nothing. Except give people a false sense of security. A VPN, on the other hand, can give you fair amount of privacy, but get a good one. The Security Now guys recommend ProXPN (use the code SN20 to get 20% off, ProXPN sponsors the Security Now podcast and they always advertise that deal).

 
Utubeofire wants registration for 14 day trial. Is this a paid service?
youTube

On

Fire

My kids watched frozen today. And before anyone gets upset, we have already pre ordered the blu ray and digital version. Don't plan on canceling it either

 
The quickest way NOT to get caught by bittorrent is to do the thing that torrent providers hate most... hit and run.

and use peer block on top of that
Peer Block does pretty much nothing. Except give people a false sense of security. A VPN, on the other hand, can give you fair amount of privacy, but get a good one. The Security Now guys recommend ProXPN (use the code SN20 to get 20% off, ProXPN sponsors the Security Now podcast and they always advertise that deal).
Can you unpack a VPN, how it works, and how I would use it and stuff?

I even googled it and I wasn't really positive how it would work.

 
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
What difference does that make? You just don't like seeding?
Without a VPN (and even with some that aren't great) seeding is what gets you in trouble. So no I don't like seeding.
:thumbdown:
Then don't seed publicly :shrug: I would have no problem seeding for private sites but not something that's public like this.
I know it defeats the purpose of bittorrent, but the surest way to get caught in a hurry is to seed publicly.
Which is why I would be very hesitant to use this app.

 
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Just watched "Ride Along"

You just saved me $12.

You just cost me 90 minutes of my life.

Gonna call it a draw.

 
The quickest way NOT to get caught by bittorrent is to do the thing that torrent providers hate most... hit and run.

and use peer block on top of that
Peer Block does pretty much nothing. Except give people a false sense of security. A VPN, on the other hand, can give you fair amount of privacy, but get a good one. The Security Now guys recommend ProXPN (use the code SN20 to get 20% off, ProXPN sponsors the Security Now podcast and they always advertise that deal).
Can you unpack a VPN, how it works, and how I would use it and stuff?

I even googled it and I wasn't really positive how it would work.
You can think of a VPN (Virtual Private Network) like a tunnel that gives you an encrypted (if they do it right) connection between your computer and your VPN provider. Your ISP cannot see what is coming/going through that tunnel, and anyone who has the IP of the computer coming out the other side cannot connect that back to you like they do by sending a notice to your ISP because a whole lotta people are using the same IPs at the "out" end of the VPN.

Originally VPNs were pretty much for business people, for instance, I can VPN into my work and then access network drives and devices just like I was sitting at my machine at work...for all intents and purposes, I am on my work network when I VPN in.

Same thing goes with the VPN providers, except they are just providing the tunnel through your ISP to them. And because all traffic over a VPN should be encrypted (or they aren't doing it right), your ISP (as well as anyone else) cannot see your network traffic.

Side note: it is really easy for ISPs to "see" torrent traffic. It has a very distinct pattern due to how the protocol works and also doesn't run on the same ports. They don't know if it is legal or illegal traffic of course, but that doesn't stop them from slowing that traffic down in some cases.

 
Hawks64 said:
Biggest problem I see is that you are seeding while you are watching the movie.... I prefer using the fire on youtube. Very similar, most movies you can want and anything 720p or 1080p is great video quality.
Do what now?
YouTubeonfire dot com. Check it out.
Just watched "Ride Along"You just saved me $12.

You just cost me 90 minutes of my life.

Gonna call it a draw.
Hey I didnt choose your movie, pal...you should have picked a better one. :banned:

 

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