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Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by yebyen on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:25PM (#36016549)
Is it possible to maintain such a project? I thought it was called popcorn-time, but earlier I remember MythTV. Both projects have seemingly been hobbled from general use, the main idea is to watch whatever you want, when you want, and it doesn't have advertising in it. (If the original source recording had it, then it could be removed.) Maybe it's overly dramatic to say I think this should be a human right, but maybe it isn't? I don't need advertising in my life, I think.
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by cortesoft on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:41PM (#36016623)
If it becomes a human right to be able to watch any content for free and with no advertising, how would there be any money to produce content?
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by yebyen on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:44PM (#36016636)
I didn't say for free, I said without advertising. So I guess we gotta sell all our souls... or haggle?
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by tenebrisalietum on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:19PM (#36017419)
People will pay creators to make content they want.
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by chii on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:20AM (#36017999)
> how would there be any money to produce content?

the same way content on youtube gets produced today.

But this argument is a hyperbole. The content gets paid for, and some people will pay - convenience, access etc. The rest can free ride off those people. So far, it has worked.

Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by bryanrasmussen on Sunday May 21, 2023 @02:31AM (#36018525)
convenience and access exist because it is not a human right to watch whatever you want when you want it. if there were such a right free content would be convenient and accessible.
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by geraldhh on Sunday May 21, 2023 @02:53AM (#36018601)
idk but most content cherished by humanity was created for propaganda (religion) and/or by poor artists
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by totetsu on Saturday May 20, 2023 @08:53PM (#36017000)
Yes popcorn prioritised downloading the torrent chunks in order so you could start playing the video while it was still downloading
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by yebyen on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:24PM (#36036921)
There is still Soda Player, which works as well but without the torrent catalogue built in.
Re:Popular Pirate Bay Proxy Site Disappears from GitHub by dchuk on Saturday May 20, 2023 @09:39PM (#36017229)
Hypothetically, you could setup (maybe with crypto) a rewards system for people who contribute content, add storage to the network, do transcoding, etc, and then allow other people who don't want to do any of that to simply pay for accessing the mesh network. That would open up a flow of funds that the development organization could take a percentage of.

That being said, it's likely just a lawsuit honeypot at that point, so mostly a daydream :)