Goodbye Popcorn Time

Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by res0nat0r on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:35PM (#7401652)

Hah I predicted this 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379904

Just because your product is legal, but mainly used for illegal purposes really opens you up to a lot of issues. They should have expected this was coming.

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by aet on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:45PM (#7401742)

It'd be interesting to see what percentage of use cases were for "legal purposes"

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by baby on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:56PM (#7401810)

I doubt it would be more than zero.

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by joyeuse6701 on Friday March 14, 2014 @07:14PM (#7402647)

Well, I watched 300 on it, and I owned a copy of 300 it just so happens to be HD-DVD...and at home.

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by xtracto on Friday March 14, 2014 @08:53PM (#7402945)

Did your HD-DVD copy came with signed rights to distribute the movie to third parties?

If not, then you were illegally distributing the film while you were watching it using PopcornTime.

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by baby on Friday March 14, 2014 @09:10PM (#7403005)

owning it in DVD doesn't mean you can download it through torrents. I know this is stupid though...

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by catshirt on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:47PM (#7401756)

would it? it's probably exactly what you'd expect. :)

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by elwell on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:09PM (#7401894)

Ok, but who didn't predict this outcome?

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Re:Goodbye Popcorn Time by dman on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:40PM (#7401690)

Law is about getting as much justice as you can afford.

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