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Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser by eli on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @07:25AM (#9569218)
Hollywood isn't in the moving bits around industry. That was never the hard part. It's like saying you improved Photoshop by making a cracked version that's easy to download.... Users might be happy, but imagine you work at Adobe.
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Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser by 1stop on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @07:40AM (#9569289)
That's not really true. The big studios are distributors of the content. They traditionally sold to Cinemas, and had DVDs made, etc. The fact they missed the boat on digital distribution is completely their fault...
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Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser by eli on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @06:10PM (#9573503)
Sure and Adobe is distributor of Photoshop, but I wouldn't really say they're in the "downloading install files" business.
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Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser by k-mcgrady on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:55AM (#9569653)
They're also investors in the creation of the content.
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