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http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/11/popcorn-time-is-like-netflix-for-pirated-content/

 

Popcorn Time Is Like Netflix For Pirated Content

 

Popcorn Time Is Like Netflix For Pirated Content

 

Think of Popcorn Time like Netflix, just with movies worth watching. Find a title and click “Watch It Now”. That’s it.

 

The media catalog is impressive. Everything from first run movies to classics like Hook are available to watch. Frozen, American Hustle, Gravity — even Delivery Man if you’re a touch masochistic. Captain Philips, Dallas Buyers Club, and the Bridge on the River Kwai are there. All the videos are free. And slightly illegal.

 

UPDATE: The hosting service for Popcorn Time’s installer pulled the file. The developers are trying to find a new host.

 

Popcorn Time works by streaming torrents. These are the same files available to download on sites like The Pirate Bay and others. But instead of using a Torrent downloader like Utorrent and then forcing the user to playback the file in a media player, Popcorn Time does all of that in the background. Like any good technology, it’s like magic to the user.

 

The program is currently in beta and available for Linux, OS X 10.7, and Windows 7 and above. It installs like any other program and doesn’t require any special network configuration. Popcorn Time very well could signal the rebirth of the HTPC the way Boxee did years ago. Since the program is open source, hopefully it will make its way onto the Apple TV and other set-top boxes.

 

Popcorn Time is not perfect, but it’s damn close. Video playback is occasionally jittery and the files do not seem to support advance audio codecs. It takes about 10-15 seconds to start streaming the video — sometimes a bit longer. Plus there’s the whole thing about piracy.

 

Technically these videos are copyrighted and the sheer ease of use of Popcorn Time is not going to make Hollywood happy. Popcorn Time is the easiest way to pirate movies yet.

 

“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,” a Popcorn Time developer told TorrentFreak.

 

The developers explained the program to TorrentFreak as a browser that uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript to serve the movie streams. The developers, who are spread out around the world, do not expect any legal issues, citing the fact that they do not host any of the copyrighted material and don’t make any money from the program.

 

There are 20 collaborators on GitHub where the files for Popcorn Time are hosted for anyone to see. Transparency and lack of infrastructure could keep Hollywood’s lawyers away for the time being.

 

But the lawyers will come eventually because Popcorn Time is just that good.

 

Popcorn Time is how consumers want to consume media. Click a button and the video plays. Netflix, Amazon and others are attempting to bring this sort of experience to the masses, and their growth numbers show consumers are latching on. Yet Hollywood is slow to embrace the future by keeping its best content away from these legit streaming services.

 

It will be months if not years for Netflix and Amazon Instant to gain access to most of the content currently available for streaming on Popcorn Time. And that’s why programs, services and the entire pirating industry is thriving.



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This could be the most awesome thing since buttered popcorn!

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Have you guys heard of XBMC? These types of things have exited for years upon years, not really anything new but it's always nice to have new alternatives 

Once installed and configured, XMBC does the same thing and more (this is one of the more popular apps people use for their HTPCs)

http://xbmc.org/about/



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I don't understand this. The problem isn't finding a torrent file, I can go on thepiratebay and find any movie I could think of. The issue is that I'm very likely going to get a cease and desist letter from my ISP if I do so, and risk the 0.001% chance I find myself personally being sued. Popcorn Time, and things like it, suffer from the same problem: your wide open to MPAA action.

Now, of course, you can VPN / 7 proxies / whatever and use Popcorn Time, but you could always do that with TPB anyway. If anything, it's harder to set up a VPN on an android-based system than just on my PC.

Now if Popcorn Time could natively encrypt the traffic to bypass MPAA monitoring, then you've got my attention. ^_^ 

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^ Right you'll most definitely get a friendly letter from your ISP but that's also the problem using a public tracker, it'll be less likely to happen if using a private one.

 

That or people could just use Usenet/Newsgroups since it's so much better than Torrents anyway. 



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