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A comment on Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. Parent comment

Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by iopq on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:54PM (#8022053)
You could take down the pirate bay legally because most of its use as a search engine is for illegal content.

Of course you would also have to take down torrent client repository because most people torrent illegal content. We know that most people who DOWNLOAD videos get copyrighted material because free to watch videos are usually available to stream.

Technically you could then take down Media Player Classic repository. Of course it just facilitates watching torrents and bootlegged DVDs.

Popcorn time is literally bittorrent + media player + search engine. It's just a convenient package. And as we've shown all of those things are illegal.

Do you see how slippery the slope is?

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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by justizin on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:56PM (#8022062)
the pirate bay has been taken down several times. ;)
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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by angersock on Friday July 11, 2014 @05:11PM (#8022429)
And yet it keeps coming back!

Perhaps there is a reason for this?

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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by res0nat0r on Friday July 11, 2014 @05:21PM (#8022481)
Because people really like being able to download movies, music and games without paying for them?
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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by PM_Tech on Saturday July 12, 2014 @07:20AM (#8024273)
It's not a slippery slope at all. It's quite clear cut.

If a shop was distributing fenced goods or human traffic we wouldn't allow it to remain in business because they also distribute free and legitimate groceries.

Do you see how slippery the slope is? You have left from the tiny tiny tiny niche use of file transfer for free content to the massive industrious downloading of intellectual property.

As long as you are still being paid your salary though...easy to have a faux-morally superior position when it is not your efforts being ripped off.

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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by iopq on Saturday July 12, 2014 @08:54PM (#8026255)
You seem to miss that this project is based on three legal programs: a search engine, a torrent client and a media player. What next, ban search engines from displaying illegal content?
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Re:Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA ta... by dang on Sunday July 13, 2014 @03:30AM (#8026888)
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
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