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this is what I've been thinking about for a loooonng time. Not that I will ever use it. . .

Finally my Santa hat doesn't look out of place

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Tried it. It's pretty darn good. All it need is 4 more categories. TV Show, Cartoons, Anime and PORN

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The project has now been shut down.

Goodbye

We started Popcorn Time as a challenge to ourselves. That's our motto. That's what we stand for.

We are enormously proud of this project. It is the biggest thing we've ever achieved. And we've assembled an amazing team in the process, with people we love to work with. And to be honest, right now every single one of us has a knot in our stomachs. We love Pochoclín and everything it stands for, and we feel that we are letting our amazing contributors down. The ones who translated the app into 32 languages, some of which we weren’t even aware existed. We stand in awe at what open source community can do.

We are startup geeks, first and foremost. We read Techcrunch, Reddit and Hacker News. We got frontpaged in Hacker News twice. At the same time. We got articles on Time Magazine, Fast Company, TechCrunch, TUAW, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, PC Magazine and Torrent Freak, just to name a few. And we got some action on TV and Radio shows, and this doesn't even include the many interviews we had to reject due to the barrage of media attention.
And they were not chastising us. They were cheering for us. We became the underdog that would fight for the consumer. Some people we respect, some of our heroes spoke wonders of Popcorn Time, which is a lot more than what we wanted to get out of an experiment we threw together in a couple of weeks.

Popcorn Time as a project is legal. We checked. Four Times.

But, as you may know, that's rarely enough. Our huge reach gave us access to a lot of people, from newspapers to the creators of many sites and apps that had a huge global reach. We learned a lot from these people, especially that standing against an old fashioned industry has it’s own associated costs. Costs that no one should have to pay in any way, shape or form.

You know what's the best thing about Popcorn Time? That tons of people agreed in unison that the movie industry has way too many ridiculous restrictions on way too many markets. Take Argentina for example: streaming providers seem to believe that "There's Something About Mary" is a recent movie. That movie would be old enough to vote here.
The bulk of our users is not in the US. It's everywhere else. Popcorn Time got installed on every single country on Earth. Even the two that don't have internet access.

Piracy is not a people problem. It’s a service problem. A problem created by an industry that portrays innovation as a threat to their antique recipe to collect value. It seems to everyone that they just don’t care.

But people do.

We've shown that people will risk fines, lawsuits and whatever consequences that may come just to be able to watch a recent movie in slippers. Just to get the kind of experience they deserve.

And maybe, that asking nicely for a few bucks a month to watch whichever movie you want is a bit better than that.

Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy, commitment, focus or allies. But because we need to move on with our lives.
Our experiment has put us at the doors of endless debates about piracy and copyright, legal threats and the shady machinery that makes us feel in danger for doing what we love. And that’s not a battle we want a place in.

xoxo,
Pochoclín.

Basically, they were concerned about potential legal issues and also under a lot of attention that they probably weren't ready for. Especially with the threats, notably from the film (movie) industry.

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How long until someone else picks this idea up? I mean really? 

$10 says it isn't more than a few months. 

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How long until someone else picks this idea up? I mean really? 

$10 says it isn't more than a few months. 

It is (was?) open sourced, so I predict days. All someone needs to do is make their own website for it and re-release the code.

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It is (was?) open sourced, so I predict days. All someone needs to do is make their own website for it and re-release the code.

And the download. 

From my understanding of the "farewell" post, it seems they are stopping not because of legal troubles, but because of potential legal troubles. They don't want to be the ones to challenge the system basically, only subvert it. 

If that's true, then I think you are right. It should be relatively easy to pick this program back up and get back to updating it as long as there is no legal battle to be waged immediately (maybe later, but not now). 

I'm hopeful (I hate the way media is handled in our world currently).

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And the download. 

From my understanding of the "farewell" post, it seems they are stopping not because of legal troubles, but because of potential legal troubles. They don't want to be the ones to challenge the system basically, only subvert it. 

If that's true, then I think you are right. It should be relatively easy to pick this program back up and get back to updating it as long as there is no legal battle to be waged immediately (maybe later, but not now). 

I'm hopeful (I hate the way media is handled in our world currently).

Yeah, that's how I understood it (but really didn't know how to phrase it in my post - I will go and change it now), but l think that part of the problem was also the stress that comes with being suddenly famous, especially as they're an enemy of the film industry. It will be interesting to see what happens.

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According to the site popcorn time is now closed :-(

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I'd rather have a copy of my movies to store anyway....

Never saw the point in streaming.

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I'd rather have a copy of my movies to store anyway....

Never saw the point in streaming.

*FACEPALM*

... It downloads the movie for you. It's stored in your AppData folder under Roaming\Popcorn-time. 

You are basically torrenting it, but you watch it as it downloads.

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*FACEPALM*

... It downloads the movie for you. It's stored in your AppData folder under Roaming\Popcorn-time. 

You are basically torrenting it, but you watch it as it downloads.

 

Yes, but then as soon as you reboot the files are deleted.

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Yes, but then as soon as you reboot the files are deleted.

Well, you could just copy/move the files to a different location before rebooting...

This. 

*double facepalm*

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wait its the day after. its dead already :(
i just wanted to try it once 

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awww its gone already.

 

Also why isnt there anything else like this out there that is free. Or as popular.

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wait its the day after. its dead already :(

i just wanted to try it once 

i have the download file on google drive if you really want to try it but the program does not seem to work for me anymore, maybe its just me though

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_0XGjPlsz9hLTFUalRnUkdwSDA/edit?usp=sharing

oh dear was that YOUR computer i just downloaded a few dozen viruses on when you weren't paying attention?

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oh i was under the impression it was browser based xD

thanks alot

EDIT: im stuck at please wait xD

ya i dunno what they did but it doesn't seem to work anymore :(

oh dear was that YOUR computer i just downloaded a few dozen viruses on when you weren't paying attention?

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oh i was under the impression it was browser based xD

thanks alot

EDIT: im stuck at please wait xD

Where do you live? In the UK, the backend is blocked by default.

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Where do you live? In the UK, the backend is blocked by default.

Canada

our government really doesnt take the effort to do this kind of stuff YET so i dont think its that

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Its' already been picked up by a few people working on getting it to run and then have a few improvements lined up for it. I'll post a topic once a working version is up and running.

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