Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI by jychang on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:02AM (#11421904)

This comment is irrelevant to the topic at hand. Not only is this app (or any other torrent streaming app, including uTorrent and qBittorrent and PopcornTime) not have any DRM, you can use the fully downloaded file after you stream it. [1]

For non-torrent sources, streaming is not tied to DRM either. Most youtube videos are not flash based, but streamed MP4 files that aren't DRM'd in any way; you can get the MP4 file if you want. Service disruption is a problem, but there is always a trade off- and honestly, I'm more likely to lose a hard drive full of video files than Youtube is likely to disappear in the next 10 years.

[1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Q24UE0ptGU/TZiOmTxoHJI/AAAAAAAAAI... Here's a qBittorrent image for an example.

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Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI by stegosaurus on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:31AM (#11422135)

You (and I) are certainly more likely to lose a hard drive before YouTube disappears, but it's likely that at least a few of the videos I have here have already been taken down.

Not to mention, if my hard drives and backups fail, I have bigger problems than my video hoard!

Additionally, I can bookmark _and_ download; that would take what, 0.5 seconds longer? :)

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Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI by mikegerwitz on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:42PM (#11423266)

It's relevant in the sense that I'm stating that streaming makes the users worse off than DRM; the reason for the comparison wasn't clear.

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Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI by stegosaurus on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:56PM (#11423399)

Well, the streaming is combined with DRM that makes obtaining the stream difficult.

Unprotected streams are not an issue.

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