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"Popcorn Time is now more popular than popcorn"---The Verge's great Lie

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Google searches for “popcorn” now routinely rank the Popcorn Time bittorrent streamer ahead of the succulent snack of superheated chemical corn consumed at movie houses since time immemorial. And in a head-to-head fight, “Popcorn Time” beats “popcorn” nearly two to one.

The team behind the installer claims more than 1 million iOS installs

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So what do you guys think of Popcorn times. Do you think the region restriction in netflix is increasing the popularity of popcorn time?

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/26/8850505/first-click-popcorn-time-is-now-more-popular-than-popcorn

 

The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media. The Verge had won five Webby Awards. This was a reputable site. Thanks to @Syntaxvgm we learned. The Verge just Lied and created this as First Click post. Why do sites like these lies straight ahead..and bringing bad reputation to tech news site practices??

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nobody fuckin googles netflix. They just use it. 

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I really liked Popcorn Time, its beautiful, so beautiful that people think its legal

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Besides, OP, 

 

Popcorn Time is now more popular than popcorn

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Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

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I didn't even know popcorn time...was even a thing again til now.

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OMG The Verge just Lied and created this as First Click post

The verge clickbait? It's not like that ever happens

 

 

/s shouldn't be needed

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Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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What kind of popcorn do they eat at the verge for it to be categorized as succulent?

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i have popcorn time and its not bad but far from being amazing or great

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nobody fuckin googles netflix. They just use it. 

In my old techy job customers would bring in machines and ALOT of them had google search results for facebook instagram netflix etc bookmarked and had never actually entered the URL into the browser. Soooooo many people just google what they want even if its a massive site like facebook etc.

 

I had one customer complain after I told him to "just pop www.facebook.com into internet explorer" because I'd forgot to readd his googled facebook bookmark. His reply was "I don't know how to do that, i've never done that before."

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Popcorn time is very easy to use, but I prefer Genesis on XBMC. Glorious 1080p and no stutter on almost all content. 

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You don't Google popcorn, you eat it! :3

The biggest  BURNOUT  fanboy on this forum.

 

And probably the world.

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I just wish PopCorn Time had more films and stuff. Their library is limited to mainly US films. I would like to see some foreign films on there as they are really good. I always watch yakuza films and Korean and Japanese films and would like to see more on here. 

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OMG The Verge just Lied and created this as First Click post

You do know they are a sister site of Polyong?

The ability to google properly is a skill of its own. 

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YOU CAN'T BEAT POPCORN

 

Popcorn is the food of the gods

 

POPCORN IS THE FOOD OF THE PC MASTER RACE

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YOU CAN'T BEAT POPCORN

 

Popcorn is the food of the gods

 

POPCORN IS THE FOOD OF THE PC MASTER RACE

 

Who would have thought that the Native Americans were so in-touch with their 'inner PC gamer' over 4000 years ago when they invented it.

 

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Popcorn time is very easy to use, but I prefer Genesis on XBMC. Glorious 1080p and no stutter on almost all content. 

And since it's not p2p you don't have to worry about files without seeders

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I tried to subscribe to netflix but it was not available on my country. I tried Hulu, Amazon Prime and the same result1 it wasn't available. I tried popcorn time, it was a good experience but it wasn't legal. I made the decision to stop watching and just start reading. Now i enjoy reading more than watching.

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Besides, OP, 

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Wrong. You need to specify that the term 'popcorn' is in reference to food:

 

So, technically, The Verge didn't lie:

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This makes me sad so very very sad.

 

I support piracy, because it is so much more usable than normal media in many cases.

But often, people who use Popcorn Time could just as well use (and pay for) Netflix or HBO.

Although those platforms may not have all wanted content.

I wish Netflix would just have all the content all over the world, then I wouldn't mind seeing Popcorn Time being erradicated (and as long as decent accesiblity for other media is still not in place I think piracy has a place)

 

What I also very much dislike, to an enormous degree, is the general populus that use Popcorn Time, that do not know that they are torrenting just as much as I would be doing (and I believe Bittorrent also has a built in stream functionality)

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So what do you guys think of Popcorn times. Do you think the region restriction in netflix is increasing the popularity of popcorn time?

 

Popcorn time is just a Bitorrent client, with a fancy skin. I briefly tried it out of curiosity and wasn't very impressed. Seemed poorly coded and had a clunky bloated feel. I get that it's making "piracy" more user friendly, but honestly, media clients such as XBMC / Plex and some tools for downloading such as Couchpotato or sickbeard (even simple RSS feeds) have been around for a number of years and were far more paradigm shifting than Popcorn Time. My automated system is fucking amazing, I struggle to believe how awesome it is. For me personally, what I can do now was about as mindblowing as when Napster / Bitorrent and the iPOD first came around, things have changed, we can't go back.

 

Netflix are doing the absolute best they can to move the industry towards that sort of availability and functionality, it's the industry that is preventing it, not Netflix. They would love to be in a similar position for Film / TV that Spotify have with Music. But we are so far away from that, so piracy will remain a huge issue, but it's been an issue long before Popcorn time.

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Why would anybody need to google "popcorn" anyway?

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