“Popcorn Time, a controversial streaming service for pirated movies, is now easier than ever to use,” David Goldman reports for CNN.
“All you need to access the so-called Netflix for pirated movies is a Web browser,” Goldman reports. “Previously, Popcorn Time viewers had to download separate software onto their PCs, Macs or Android smartphones.”
“On Tuesday, the people behind Popcorn Time launched PopcornInYourBrowser.net,” Goldman reports. “The site lets you choose from thousands of movies that have been shared using the torrent protocol — a peer to peer network that allows people to share media with one another.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t steal movies.
Oh, BTW, visiting the PopcornInYourBrowser.net site now yields this:
Popcorn in Your Browser is no more. It relied on the free trial of remote torrenting service Coinado.io, which I used to stream YIFY torrents to an HTML5 video tag. This site went viral and seems to have completely overwhelmed Coinado’s servers, who in turn promptly discontinued the free trial. 🙂 It was fun while it lasted – cheers!
Hilarious prank 😂
its no prank
http://popcorn-time.se
the software is meant to stream video
however all streaming needs caching
hence there is a temporary download location made
look for settings, then the download folder
find this and you can save the .mkv file for viewing off line
this is where the whole app becomes naughty
in case you don’t know what popcorn time is
popcorn is now at 5.2.2 PC / Mac
Also of interest: Veetle.
if you like torn u kervert
Coming to a government near you…
The Australian courts have ruled that internet providers must provide rights holders with the Internet addresses of individuals who illegally downloaded movies.
Rights holders are now preparing letters of demand for those caught in the net.
It costs money to record a song or make a movie. If you steal something, expect the law to catch up with you sooner or later.
Pfffffffft…
When they target VPNs and Usenet, I *might* change my behaviour. Until then Uncle Rupert can eat a dick.
went to the site. this is the message on the homepage:
Popcorn in Your Browser is no more. It relied on the free trial of remote torrenting service Coinado.io, which I used to stream YIFY torrents to an HTML5 video tag. This site went viral and seems to have completely overwhelmed Coinado’s servers, who in turn promptly discontinued the free trial. 🙂 It was fun while it lasted – cheers!
Technically, we don’t steal movies. We borrowed it, watched it and give it back.
Then technically, your employer is only borrowing your time. When you go home, they give it back: no need to pay your wages every day.
We would only be so lucky to have an ’employer’ that would allow us to perform a single instance our ‘job duties’ ONCE and then DUPLICATE that instance millions of times and then CHARGE for each time that duty was watched (or rewatched) as if we (the employees) were REPERFORMING that instance each time–when in reality it is a FACSIMILE–which is not the case with REAL ‘show up for work’ jobs.
It is almost a challenge to come up with comparative example as irrelevant as yours was..
I wanted to reply to pablorph’s ridiculous analogy but yours took the words out of my mouth.
I didn’t know time can be COPIED and SAVED into a Storage Drive. I must be out of touch or something.
In the UK it is classed as “Copyright infringement” and only the ‘issuing copies’, ‘performing, showing or playing in public’, ‘broadcasting’ or ‘copying’ are illegal, so streaming is considered legal (it is the distributer who is in the wrong in this case).
In the US copyright infringement must be via “reproduction or distribution” and so also does not appear to include streaming (although I can find a lot less articles confirming that).
If you actually knew that the film had been stolen (rather than they owned it and were impinging copyright by distributing it, which is different) then you could be done for ‘handling stolen goods’ in the UK, but I think that that’s unlikely.
It is however immoral, because you are (to a very limited extent) aiding and abetting them in their copyright infringement (by providing someone to distribute to)…
Be aware that you’re nowhere near as bad as the search engine that recommended their site or the hundreds of servers within the internet that gave you the content not to mention the advertisers who actually benefit from their illegal distribution and fund their actions!
But still… Don’t do it!
Most folks wouldn’t illegally stream if they didn’t charge $15 a pop to see a movie at the theatre or on-demand. Talent and production costs are out way out of control and cinemas are getting a smaller & smaller piece of the pie. To recup, movie prices are adjusted upward to compensate.
I’m all for the free market but just like the record industry, the film industry needs to reinvent & reposition itself in regards to the modern market/audience and its consumption habits. Yet they continue to cling to the failing business models of the past to squeeze every last drop revenue they can.
one can see these tv shows come from US networks like NBC, people are recording shows with their PVRs and can save on hard drives for as long as they wish, the saved shows I imagine – after airing – can be copied from the PVR and hence shared on places like Popcorn
The Cable Companies sort of let this happen
For those who browse and then decide to download a movie – the law shall see, that they are an accomplice and encourage the criminal to only repeat the act.
However, to punish those who are merely do the downloading… it seems unfair. As they did not create a service nor did they do any original re-encoding or any uploads for posting of such material.
The Napster days are long gone. Napster worked in an entirely different manner, where the application pointed to other computers who were sharing their hard drive and music files.
Popcorn is a complete stylized software to appear professional as Netflix and offer pretty much what it does. It is the service who should be in trouble not the users and downloaders.
Unless the downloaders are selling pirated movies on DVD and earning profit on what was never theirs.
JMHO