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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by raldi on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:51PM (#14963722)
In 1999, Qwest had a 30-second commercial that seemed incredibly futuristic at the time, talking about a hotel where "every room has every movie ever made in every language anytime day or night" and it seemed impossibly futuristic.

Not 20 years later, the technology for this is already well-established; the only thing stopping it is that the owners of the films don't want to make them available this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by samstave on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:59PM (#14964906)
Gee -- I wonder why the Qwest CEO went to prison...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by dingo_bat on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:22PM (#14965000)
Wtf they actually sent him to jail for refusing to give customer data to the NSA. No wonder we hardly see any resistance nowadays.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by cdmckay on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:11AM (#14965969)
He went to jail for fraud and insider trading
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by bsder on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:32AM (#14966605)
On fairly flimsy evidence that looks suspiciously like parallel construction.

Nacchio was no saint, but it seems pretty clear that he was targeted after failing to be cooperative.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by coldtea on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:42AM (#14967576)
Like Capone went to jail for tax evasion.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by pyvpx on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:31AM (#14966601)
debatable.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by wunderg on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:31AM (#14965796)
There is popcorntime.io
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by balladeer on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:45AM (#14966358)
You'll actually have to go to .sh among the contenders (this is what I would suggest) as .io is not up anymore and besides .me was the original one.

It's linked on the official/original github repo[0]. But the official official[1] repo doesn't link anything. Just that original developers are supporting .sh as official and have apparently moved to it.

There's also ...ce.ch but that's community edition as the last two chars suggest.

[0] https://github.com/popcorn-official

[1] https://github.com/popcorn-time

PS. I have put info to the best of my knowledge :)

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by thanatropism on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:08AM (#14968322)
I don't have it at work, but there's a Chrome extension that allows you to stream directly from a torrent, say, from The Pirate Bay.
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